March 2026 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- March 1, 2026

I launched The Cable Car Home Page on AOL thirty years ago in November 1996.

I just put the March 2026 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: A 1939 newspaper article describes how the Dunedin cable trams were popular with tourists from Australia. "...Australian tourists made merry on the Maryhill extension line." (Source: Dunedin Evening Star, 15-March-1939)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Maryhill Extension, known as "The Big Dipper."
3. On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added screen prints to the article about the 1935 Universal B movie Chinatown Squad
4. Added News about operational events

Ten years ago this month (March 2016):

1. Picture of the Month: An 1895 view of Maryhill Tramway car 9 with unusual roof and windows. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Thanks to Len Foley for pointing out that this was the Maryhill and not the Roslyn line. (Source: World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection - Library of Congress. CALL NUMBER - LOT 11948, no. 688)
2. On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Maryhill Extension, known as "The Big Dipper."
3. On the Cable Car Models page: A model of a San Diego cable car by Eleanor Catalina Stevens.
4. On the Horse Car Home Page: More about the threat to kill off the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man. Also News item.

Twenty years ago this month (March 2006):

1. Picture of the Month: Denver Tramway Company Car 40, preserved at the Forney Transportation Museum.
2. Added information about the Denver Tramway Company to the Other Cities page
3. On the Australia/New Zealand page: Thanks to Stuart James, a photograph of his great-grandfather in a Melbourne engine house
4. On the San Francisco page: An update to the second edition of Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco, by Robert Callwell & Walter E. Rice. New information about the powerhouse
5. Added Bibliography items about two books: The End of the Penny Section and Penang Trams
6. On the New York/New Jersey page: Four 1868 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad
7. Added a News item about a new book about Penang transit

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 the year before with making most thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.

Coming in Apriil 2026: On the Cable Car Kitsch page: A panoply of collectible items.

25 years ago - 2001
The Giants won the National League West, but lost the National League Division Series to the NLDS to New York Mets, 3 games to 1.

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
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-March-2026)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-October-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-October-2025)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (updated obsessively)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/