Coronation -- May 10, 2023

bbc.com

Saturday we watched bits and pieces of the crowning of Charles III and his consort Camilla. It was nice to see the old traditions, but whole thing was silly.

October 2022 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- October 1, 2022

Examiner photo by Bob Bryant. San Francisco Examiner, 28-October-1977 All Rights Reseved.

I just put the October 2022 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: "Plainclothes security men hang onto cable car and policeman blocks route as cable car whisks Prince Charles through Financial District." Official San Francisco greeter Cyril Magnin rides next to him. (Source: Examiner photo by Bob Bryant. San Francisco Examiner, 28-October-1977 All Rights Reserved.)
2. On the More Muni Pictures page: A new article about the Prince of Wales' 1977 visit to San Francisco, where he rode a California Street cable car.
3. Add News items about the passing of The Friends of the Cable Car Museum board chairman Gerry Graham and more about the pandemic.

Ten years ago this month (October, 2012):
1. Picture of the Month: The first cable car to run on Manhattan's Third Avenue Railway. (Source: "Starting the Cable Cars on Third Avenue, New York", The Street Railway Journal, January, 1894).
2. Added results and videos of the 49th Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
3. On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: More about the Third Avenue Railway, including selected articles from the Street Railway Journal
4. On the How Do Cable Cars Work page: An ask.com billboard that asks "How Do Cable Cars Work?" Try that query on ask.com and you'll find this site on the first page of results

Twenty years ago this month (October, 2002):
1. Picture of the Month: Third Avenue, New York, parlor car
2. Add the Third Avenue Railroad to the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page.
3. Add News and Bibliography items about an assault on a gripman and rededication of Seattle's Iron Pergola.

25 Years Ago This Month (October, 1997):
Oct 12 - A broken cable caused a runaway which killed one passenger and closed the Funiculaire du Vieux Québec

Coming in November, 2022: On the Cable Car Lines in New York and New Jersey page: A ten- and twenty-year update about Manhattan's Third Avenue Railroad.

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

New on the Park Trains and Tourist Trains Site:

Ardenwood Farm Labor Day Rail Fair, September, 2022.

http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/

Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-October-2022)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-January-2020)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 30-September-2022)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (new blog)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/

Queen Elizabeth II RIP -- September 8, 2022

listal.com

Queen Elizabeth II has died. My condolences to her family and her subjects. She was the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch. I'm not a fan of monarchy, but I don't see how anyone could have done a better job than she did. She led a life of service. 

She was Queen for my entire life. I sometimes wondered what would happen when she passed. Everyone has been calling her son King Charles III, but he has not formally announced his regnal name.