The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

January, 2025 Picture of the Month: The Saint Louis Cable and Western Railway helped sell real estate in new neighborhoods like Chamberlain Park. (source: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 01-October-1887.) New 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, and which was part of a unique mixed-mode system which combined a cable car line with a narrow gauge steam railroad with several contemporary newspaper items Coming in February, 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Citizens Railway in Saint Louis Enter Copyright 1996-2024 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