The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

A site about cable cars (also known as cable tramways) all over the world.

June, 2022 Picture of the Month: "Disastrous Collision Between a Trolley and a Cable Car." (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 24-February-1897) New in June, 2022: On the Ferries & Cliff House Railway page: An 1897 article about a collision between a Powell Street cable car and an Ellis Street electric car. Coming in July, 2022: On the Sutter Street Railway page: An 1897 newspaper story about an collision at Fillmore and Sutter between a Fillmore Street electric car and a Sutter Street cable train. Enter Copyright 1996-2022 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

1996 -- The Cable Car Home Page - 25 Years -- 2021 November, 2021 is the 25th anniversary of this website. I wish I had written down the date I started it.

Please visit my site about San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (new url)

Please visit my page about Park Trains and Tourist Trains

As if I didn't have enough websites to keep track of, I now have a blog: The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion

And now I now have another blog, mostly about movies: The Big V Riot Squad

Joe Thompson

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