W. L. Holman Car Company was a streetcar and cable car

Cable car (railway)

A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required...

 manufacturer based in San Francisco, California. It mainly built equipment for rail operation, including San Francisco Municipal Railway

San Francisco Municipal Railway

The San Francisco Municipal Railway is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California. In 2006, it served with an operating budget of about $700 million...

's first publicly-owned streetcar and some of the Cable Cars you see today still operating on San Francisco's California Street line. Holman also constructed heavy interurban coaches and combines (combined passenger and freight-express cars) that ran on inland California electric railroads Sacramento Northern and Central California Traction. Some classic Holman cars are in the possession of the Western Railway Museum at rio Vista, California.

See also

• F Market & Wharves
• Sacramento Northern Railroad
• Central California Traction
  Central California Traction
  The Central California Traction Company is a Class III short-line railroad operating in Northern California. It is owned jointly by the Union Pacific and BNSF Railway. The railroad extends from the Port of Stockton to Lodi, California...
  
  
• Western Railway Museum
  Western Railway Museum
  The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of theSacramento Northern Railway...
  
  

External links

http://www.davesrailpix.com/wrm/wrm.htm Holman Car Company equipment at Western Railway Museum.
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