The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

April, 2026 Picture of the Month: Disney Vinylmation figures are shaped like Mickey Mouse, but are decorated to resemble a variety of Disney and non-Disney characters and places. This one, part of the San Francisco series, is decorated as a cable car. My family recently gave me this figure with its tin. Even the inside of the tin is lithographed to look like a cable car.

New for April, 2026:
On the Cable Car Kitsch page: A panoply of collectible items including: a Disney Vinylmation Mickey Mouse figure; a 2019 Giants replica cable car honoring Hall of Famer Willie McCovey; a 2019 Golden State Warriors Draymond Green bobblehead posing with a cable car; an ad for Porte Dorée beer; a Kansas City Cable Railway puzzle;

Coming in May, 2026: On the Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand page: A ten year update article about Dunedin, New Zealand's Kaikorai Tramway.

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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