The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

May, 2018 Picture of the Month: In December, 2003 old Car 28, built for the Ferries and Cliff House Railway in 1887, turns on the motorized turntable in the barn at Washington and Mason before being put away. A California Street car pulls in behind it. Car 28 would retire the next month. In April, 2018, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency agreed to donate old car 28 to the Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven, Connecticut as part of a deal that brought two electric streetcars to San Francisco. New in May, 2018: On the Ferries and Cliff House Railway page: A ten and twenty year update on the Ferries and Cliff House Railway, whose lines survived the conversion to electric traction after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire because of their steep hills. Including some newspaper articles on the company's early years. Coming in June, 2018: On the San Francisco Municipal Railway page: A ten and twenty year update on the San Francisco Municipal Railway, the only remaining operator of Hallidie-type cable cars. Enter Copyright 1996-2018 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

1996 -- The Cable Car Home Page - 20 Years -- 2016 November, 2016 marked the 20th 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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