The Cable Car Home Page

by Joe Thompson

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

November, 2025 Picture of the Month: The Las Casitas Railway is a private funicular on San Francisco's Russian Hill. It still serves a group of townhouses. (Source: San Francisco Examiner, 1960-10-02).

New in November, 2025:

On the new Northern California Funiculars page: Added new items about the Shasta Springs Incline, the Shadowbrook Restaurant, Capitola and Private Funiculars. Moved Telegraph Hill Railroad, the Fillmore Hill Counterbalance and the The Fairfax Incline Railway from the San Francisco Miscellany page.

Coming in December, 2025:

On the San Francisco page: With Christmas coming, it's a good time to visit the late Joe Lacey's article Christmas on the Cables, and the Decorated Cable Cars page.

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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