The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

January, 2009 Picture of the Month: A train of the Second Street Cable Railway in Los Angeles passes through the line's deep cut in Bunker Hill. This CC Pierce photograph shows the lightly populated area which the line's promoters hoped would grow and provide riders. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Archive (c) 2004, California Historical Society: TICOT/Pierce, CHS-2867. All rights reserved. New in January: Cable cars decorated for the 2008 holidays Also new in January: Newspaper articles about the Second Street Cable Railway in Los Angeles. Also some more photos of the line Coming in February, 2009: Thanks to Bob Murphy, Melbourne cable tram-related photos Also coming in February, 2009: Newspaper articles about the Temple Street Cable Railway in Los Angeles Enter Frames version Copyright 1996-2009 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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