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

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

Fred and Bill - thanks for posting the website of Streetcars from All over the World, gives this old retired fart something to do.   Haven't run across any old PCCs anywhere yet, have you?
Thanks 
Jerry M


-------------- Original message from Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>: -------------- 


> 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. 
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> http://www.shugotram.jp/twrldmap/twrldmae.html 
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