The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

June, 2017 Picture of the Month: Kim Wahler found the dash from a California Street Cable Railroad O'Farrell, Jones and Hyde cable car in a field north of San Francisco. Thank you to Kim for letting me use the photo. All rights reserved. New in June, 2017: On the Cable Car Lines in Kansas City page: A ten year update on the Peoples' Cable Railway, which ran through a territory which did not generate enough traffic. An ad for bond sales and contemporary newspaper articles. Coming in July, 2017: On the Kansas City page: A ten year update on the Union Cable Railway, which used an unsuccessful shallow conduit system Enter Copyright 1996-2017 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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