[PRCo] Re: Reminescent of Pittsburgh

TEP tompark at telus.net
Mon Jun 2 20:58:19 EDT 2008


I've been there twice. Wonderful -- like West Penn reincarnated.
/Tom Parkinson P.Eng, Vancouver BC Canada 604-733-5430, fax -5437/

Bill Robb wrote:
> This is a page I stumbled upon while searching for a defintion of interurban. It's a system in Poland near the border with Russia and Germany. You'll see red and cream cars, blast furnances, passing sidings in streets, private right of way operation and as the page says "the chronic lack of funds is visible on every step" Only urgent repairs are being made to rolling stock and infrastructure. But still there are relatively modern cars on wide headways like Pittsburgh. Popular with the railfans too.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Interurbans
> http://www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/urbtr/sl-dabr-inurb.html
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