The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

May, 2008 Picture of the Month: Val Lupiz took this unique view of new car 15 through the headlight hole. April, 2008. Photo by Val Lupiz. All rights reserved. New in May: On the More California Street Pictures page: Thanks to gripman Gordon Miller, photos of O'Farrell/Jones/Hyde Car 38 being moved in Lakeport, California. Also new in May: On the More Muni Photos page: Thanks to Val Lupiz, more photos of the rebuilt car 25 and the brand new Powell Street car 15 Also new in May: On the Miscellany page: A new article: Excerpts from "Poor's Directory of Railway Officials," 1887. Coming in June, 2008: Excerpts from Henry Root, Surveyor, Engineer and Inventor, a 1921 memoir by the man who designed and built the California Street and Market Street cable railroads Enter Frames version Copyright 1996-2008 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

The rattlesnake's "... eye excelled in brightness that of any other animal, and ... she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage ... (S)he never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her." "An American Guesser" (probably Benjamin Franklin), 27-Dec-1775

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

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