The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

March, 2025 Picture of the Month: This real estate ad offers a space for a store and residential flats at "4068 Olive St. Terminus Olive St. Cable." The Missouri Railroad's Olive Street line started operating the month before. Note that Heath and Company's telephone number is 417. (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 08-April-1888.) March, 2025 Picture of the Month. New in March, 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Missouri Railroad, including contemporary newspaper items. Coming in April, 2025: On the Kitsch page: More collectible items about cable cars, including: a wooden locomotive decorated for the San Francisco Giants (not a cable car); 1949 Examiner ads for cable car pins and wheel spinners and gearshift knobs with pictures of cable cars; Enter Copyright 1996-2025 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

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).

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