The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

December, 2024 Picture of the Month: Santa and friends will ride a cable car down Powell Street to the Emporium. "He'll open up our big fabulous, eye-popping Toyland!" I miss the roof rides. (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1949-10-28).

New in December, 2024:
With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page. Added a photo of Santa riding atop a cable car and a 1952 Emporium ad about the Santacade to Christmas on the Cables. Cable car Christmas decorations celebrated their 20th anniversary.

Coming in January, 2025:
On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway, the first Hallidie-type cable car line in Saint Louis, which was part of a unique mixed-mode system which combined a cable car line with a narrow gauge steam railroad

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Copyright 1996-2024 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.


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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).
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The Cable Car Home Page 25 Years
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.

The Cable Car Home Page 25 Years


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