The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

January, 2023 Picture of the Month: Last Cable Ride -- When the first Madison street cable car started up Madison 50 years ago, one of the passengers was Mrs. George Heilbron, whose husband was one of the founders of the line. And on the last trip Sunday Mrs. Heilbron rode again. She is talking to Col. C. D. Mills, general manager of the transit system, ahe aged cable car sways along the tracks to the barn. Today gasoline buses operated up and down the hill. (Source: Seattle Star, 15-April-1940, page 11) New in January, 2023: On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about cable cars in Seattle, including newspaper accounts of the closing of three lines in 1940. Aside from the lines in San Francisco, these were the last three Hallidie-type cable car lines in the United States. Coming in February, 2023: On the Cable Cars in the Pacific Northwest page: More pictures and information about the Portland Cable Railway Enter Copyright 1996-2023 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

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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