March, 2024 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- March 1, 2024

I just put the March 2024 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/

It includes some new items:

1. Picture of the Month: "Ascending an Inclined Plane." Source: History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by William Bender Wilson, 1895.
2. On the Cable Cars in Pennsylvania page: A ten year update about the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the first railroad to cross the Alleghenys, using inclined planes.
3. Added News and Chronology items about cable cars being dedicated to Willie Mays and Tony Bennett

Ten years ago this month (March, 2014):

1. Picture of the Month: The Pittsburgh Traction Company's double reverse curve on Soho Hill. (Source: "Pittsburgh and Allegheny," The Street Railway Journal, October, 1891.)
2. On the Pennsylvania page: Excerpts from "Pittsburgh and Allegheny," an article from the October, 1891 Street Railway Journal about street railways in the two cities
3. Also on the Pennsylvania page: A new article about the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the first railroad to cross the Alleghenys, using inclined planes.
4. On the Who page: Added a profile from the Street Railway Journal about MK Bowen, who worked on the Kansas City Cable Railway and the Chicago City Railway
5. Added News items about the Chinese New Year Parade and proposed fare gouging on the F line

Twenty years ago this month (March, 2004):

1. Picture of the Month: An elevator full of grips at Washington/Mason
2. Started to migrate some items from the Cable Car Museum site:

1. Historic American Engineering Record, San Francisco Cable Car System (assembled by Alan Kline)
2. Cal Cable's Hyde and California Street Car Barn and Powerhouse by Walter Rice and Emiliano Echevarria
3. San Francisco Cable Car - The Gripping Tale of an Aged Compact, an April, 1962 Road and Track article collected by Val Lupiz
   Thanks to Allan Kline, Val Lupiz, Walter Rice, and Emiliano Echevarria for allowing me to be the new host of this material

In January 2024 I started on a long overdue process of cleaning things up on my site. I started with the development pages. Actually, I guess I started last year with making the thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.

Coming in April, 2024: On the Cable Car Kitsch page: More collectible items.

125 Years Ago This Month (March, 1874): Mar 23 - Baltimore City Passenger Railway (Baltimore, Maryland) converted from cable to electricity

The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/

The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/

Joe Thompson
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