The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

October, 2026 Picture of the Month: An 1894 photo of a Saint Paul City Railway grip and trailer cable train. (Source: Minneapolis Journal / 22-September-1935 and Minnesota Historical Society, Accession number YR1956.3944)

New for October, 2026:
On the Cable Car Lines in Other Cities page: A ten year update about the Saint Paul City Railway

Coming in November, 2026: On the Why do I Maintain This Site? page: "Thirty Years in the Hole." The Cable Car Home Page turns 30 years old. That is pretty darn old for a website.

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Copyright 1996-2026 by Joe Thompson. All rights reserved.

1996 -- The Cable Car Home Page - 30 Years -- 2026 November, 2026 will be the 30th anniversary of this website. I wish I had written down the date I started it. That is pretty darn old for a website.

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).

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