[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Streetcars All Over the World

[Richard Allman]

very nice, Fred-some of the stuff is older than what the current photo sites 
show, eh? RICH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>; "SCHNEIDER ALAN" 
<alschneider2 at juno.com>; "Volkmer Bill" <bvolkmer at bellsouth.net>; "McGuire 
Mark" <macmarka at netzero.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:54 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: Streetcars All Over the World


> The URL below was sent to me by Bill Robb.   I think he didn't want
> to take the heat for putting it on a Pittsburgh Railways address list
> so I'll take the crap.   It is a worldwide file of of an amazing
> assortment of about 6,000 streetcar pictures.  Go to the map and
> click on the city, or the country and then the city that you want.
> You can spend literally hours on this.
>
> While the list makes no pretense to have subways and heavy urban rail
> systems or other fixed guideway lines, it might have been nice to
> have such a file too.   If someone know of a similar worldwide file
> of these other systems, I would be happy to be the recipient of a URL.
>
> In the U. S. A. for instance, we are missing San Juan (Puerto Rico),
> Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, BART, Miami
> and Chicago.   In Canada, Montreal and Toronto's subways are
> missing.   And the people movers (ALRT, linear induction systems ...
> all those odd things) are missing, such as Vancouver, Scarborough,
> Miami,Jacksonville, Newark, New York, and all the capitve airport
> systems. There is also one in Texas that is missing.
>
> There are some things missing from this ... Charlotte's new light
> rail is missing.   Some of the San Diego lines are missing.   But I
> commend them for the monumental task that they did do.
>
> Now don't neglect to go to Switzerland and click on Zurich ... there
> is a real nice night time picture of a couple kissing on
> Bahnhofstrasse with a trolley in the distance and behind it the main
> train station.   They guy taking some of this stuff did have an eye
> for a picture.
>
> And if you are like me, it's a blast just looking at these to find
> all the places you've been.
>
> Enjoy, guys.
>
> http://www.shugotram.jp/twrldmap/twrldmae.html
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