I just put the May 2026 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
It includes some new items:
- Picture of the Month: The Last Kaikorai cable tram in Dunedin, New Zealand (Source: Dunedin Evening Star, 01-August-1947).
- On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Kaikorai Tramway, including newspaper articles.
- On the Motion Pictures Which Feature Cable Cars page: I added a screen print to the article about the movie Foul Play
- On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: Added an item about the closing of Washington DC's DC Streetcar, which had revived streetcar service in the District of Columbia
- On the Horse Car Home Page: The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man issues a schedule for its 150th season. Also a Chronology item
- Added News items about a serious threat to cut cable car service, and information about Muni fare changes.
Ten years ago this month (May 2016):
- Picture of the Month: A Kaikorai cable tram crests a hill. Note the pram hooked to the front dash. (Source: The Kaikorai Cable Tram. Amateur film by William Hood Davidson, 1947. Hocken Collections.)
- On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A new article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Kaikorai Tramway.
- Added News and Bibliography items about a news story that I got interviewed for.
- On the Cable Trams in the UK: Thanks to Stefan Isaksson for some new information about London's Highgate Hill Cable Tramway, the first Hallidie-type cable tramway in Europe
- Also on the UK page: Added the three cliff lifts in Bournemouth to the Cliff Lifts article. Added News story about a landslide that affected the East Cliff Lift.
- On the Horse Car Home Page: The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man issues a schedule for its 140th season. Also News item.
Twenty years ago this month (May 2006):
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Powell-Mason car 509 on the turntable at Powell and Market, scanned from a magazine ad by Walter Rice.
- Try the new Contest, conceived by Walter Rice, who has also generously provided the prizes
- On the San Francisco page: A new page of Cable Car Advertising Images, scanned by Walter Rice.
- Also on the San Francisco page: Added a 1951 Collier's Magazine image to The Cable Car Lady & the Mayor by Walter Rice and Val Lupiz, showing Mrs Friedel Klussmann and other cable car supporters.
- Also on the San Francisco page: Walter Rice scanned Samuel Kahn's signature from a stock certificate as part of his article "An Interview With Mrs. Barbara Kahn Gardner, Daughter of Market Street Railway Executive Samuel Kahn"
- On the Cable Car Transfers, Tickets, Tokens and Signage page: Thanks to Val Lupiz and Walter Rice, a sign warning riders about the California Street line turnback because of the Chinese New Year parade, 2006.
- On the New York/New Jersey page: Five 1870 newspaper articles about the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-operated elevated railroad and the Beach Pneumatic Subway
- Added a News item about the 18-April-2006 celebrations
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 June 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update about Dunedin, New Zealand's Elgin Road Extension, the last new cable tramway built.
175 years ago - 1851
May 04 - The Fifth Great Fire destroyed San Francisco's entire business district
125 years ago - 1901
May 11 - Metropolitan Street Railway (New York, New York) converted its Columbus Avenue line to electricity
May 25 - Metropolitan Street Railway (New York, New York) converted its Broadway line 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
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-May-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/
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