The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

May, 2022 Picture of the Month: "Scene of the daring $4,100 robbery of officials of the California street cable road on a street car at California and Jones streets yesterday." (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 04-January-1922) New in May, 2022: On the California Street Cable Railroad page: A 1922 article about a James Gang-style robbery on a California Street cable car. Coming in June, 2022: On the Cable Car Lines in San Francisco page: Newspaper stories about some accidents in 1922 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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