[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Streetcars All Over the World - Zurich (2)

[Bill Robb]

Zurich has a short 1.3 km rack railway called the Dolderbahn which climbs a mountain and serves a hotel.  What you see between the rails is a device to prevent a run-away down the grade. It is 1000mm and runs on 600v.
http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/switzerland.html#12

http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/switzerland/switzerland_db.html

http://www.vbz.ch/vbz_opencms/opencms/vbz/deutsch/DieVBZ/Bahnen/Dolderbahn/

Zurich trams:

http://www.proaktiva.ch/tram/zurich/

Bill Robb



Regarding pictures on link at bottom of page....
 
Noted picture on Zurich (page 2) of a streetcar with a third rail.  What is the the reason for or the purpose of this third rail.  It has on overhead power line.
 
The pictures are fantastic!
 
Thanks
 
Bob
>From Krazy Kalifornia
where higher taxes are on the way and English is sometimes heard.
 
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--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>
Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: Streetcars All Over the World
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org, "SCHNEIDER ALAN" <alschneider2 at juno.com>, "Volkmer Bill" <bvolkmer at bellsouth.net>, "McGuire Mark" <macmarka at netzero.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 2:54 PM

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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