Street Cars & Cable Cars of San Francisco

[Jim Koepke]

If you enjoy images of old transit vehicles, you might enjoy this:

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/resources/transit/article/cameron-beach-yard-streetcars-closed-to-public-14490551.php#photo-18374821

jtk

[Bill Dufour]

I believe that the San Francisco fire department is the last department to have it's own wooden ladder shop. They still make and use only wooden ladders. Can you buy a wood ladder any more?
I have seen used wire from the Golden gate bridge for sale but never cable car wire. It may be because the car wire would be very greasy?
Bill D.

http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/

[Jim Koepke]

I believe that the San Francisco fire department is the last department to have it's own wooden ladder shop. They still make and use only wooden ladders. Can you buy a wood ladder any more?
I have seen used wire from the Golden gate bridge for sale but never cable car wire. It may be because the car wire would be very greasy?
Bill D.

http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/

Bill, a few years back a link was posted to a video about the SFFD's Ladder Shop. The thread devolved into political mud slinging. Hopefully linking to a story about a high quality shop building ladders can stay on the beauty of the craft instead of personal political feelings:

https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252

Often the cheaper way is not a better way.

jtk

[Keith Outten]

Here is a couple of pictures of street cars in my home town, Hampton Virginia (est 1610).


1888 – J. S. Darling organizes the Hampton and Old Point Railway Co., a trolley line.
The Soldiers Home was built for veterans, it is now the Veterans Administration Hospital.
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1895, this view down an unpaved expanse of East Queen Street shows the early recovery of Hampton after the devastation of the Civil War and a second catastrophic fire in 1884.
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