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

[John Swindler]

Or Kenosha?
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fwd: Streetcars All Over the World> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:26:45 -0400> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > Jerry:> > They are in almost all the Eastern European cities on that Streetcars > of the World site. But you have to be able to recognize a Konstal > or Tatra product or a rebuilt car using their hardware. It is only > in the U. S. that they have disappeared from daily use everywhere but > San Francisco and Boston. (I am deliberately not counting the > Philadelphia cars which do not contain any PCC patents.)> Look under Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, > Ukraine, etc., etc., etc.> > Fred> > On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Jerry MATT Matsick wrote:> > > 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.> >>> >> http://www.shugotram.jp/twrldmap/twrldmae.html> >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > 
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