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

[Schneider Fred]

Forgot that.   One  empty car running on a short loop doesn't stick  
well in my brain housing group.   I stopped to see it on a trip to  
the West Coast a few summers back.   Nice views of a light house out  
in the lake with a PCC in front of it.   Great new apartment and  
condominium buildings with a PCC in front.   But transit is intended  
to move people and people was the one commodity in very short supply  
there.   It made the Lancaster - Lititz bus line look busy!

On Sep 18, 2008, at 1:51 PM, John Swindler wrote:

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> Or Kenosha?
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>> 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> >> >> >  
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>  - 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 subw!
>  ays are> >> missing. And the people movers (ALRT, linear induction  
> sys
> tems ...> >> 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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