The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

April, 2025 Picture of the Month: A first day of issue cachet for the cable car stamp from 1988. Note that the Powell-Hyde car is numbered 146. Does anyone recognize the artist's name? New in April, 2025: On the Kitsch page: More collectible items about cable cars, including: three first day of issue cachets for the 1988 cable car transportation stamp; a Matchbox auto decorated with a cable car; moved Santa Clara University's Cable Car Classic to its own section and added a program from 1969; added a Christmas ornament with Santa on a cable car; 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; Coming in May, 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: A ten-year update about the Peoples' Railway, including contemporary newspaper items. 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