The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

May, 2024 Picture of the Month: In this want ad item, a gentleman wants to sell "his handsome Kentucky-Bred Family and Road HORSE." The ad emphasizes that the horse is "not afraid of cable cars, steam or road objects." (source: want ad, Baltimore Sun, 08-June-1891.) New in May, 2024: On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: A ten year update about the Baltimore Traction Company including contemporary newspaper items. Cable traction did not arrive in Baltimore until 1891, after all other US cities except Tacoma. Coming in June, 2024: On the Cable Car Lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore page: A ten year update about the Baltimore City Passenger Railway. Enter Copyright 1996-2024 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

The Birth of the Cable Car - 150 Years August and September 2023 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of cable traction on the Clay Street Hill Railroad. One part of a stereoscope view.. (Image Source: OpenSFHistory / wnp24.224a.jpg).

1996 -- The Cable Car Home Page - 25 Years -- 2021 November, 2021 was 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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