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

[Schneider Fred]

Note the underlining disappeared on the word Zurich on the
one link.  You need to recreate it if you want to find out about a  
pretty city.


On Sep 18, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Schneider Fred wrote:

> Bob,
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> I have no idea which funicular it is.   It isn't the Rigiblick (view
> of Rigi) Bahn (railway) because I've attached that.   And it isn't
> the Pilotbahn, because that's the last one in the column.   I'm not
> sure what it is unless the Japanese creator slipped in one of the
> hundreds of other alpine cog rails in the wrong place.
>
> The blue cars in Zurich are VBZ (Verkehrsbetriebe Zurich or City
> Operations Zurich).   The red cars are the Forchbahn, a suburban
> system that begins in the southeastern edge of the city of Zurich.
>
> Switzerland is one of those gorgeous places on the planet that you
> just die to go back to.   I have a particular near death story about
> Zurich of my own.   I had been in the country for several weeks.
> Arthritic joints in my back (lumber 3, 4, 5) had gotten so bad that I
> could barely move by the end of the trip.   Now I hate being gouged
> but I paid through the nose for a room in a five star hotel across
> the street from the train station just because of where it was.   And
> I stumbled in and stayed there for the last three days (at something
> like $300 a night for a single).   I fell out periodically to crawl
> two doors down to the Chinese restaurant for a meal and then back to
> the room.   The one cheery sight was going out on the street about
> 6:00 one evening and seeing the tour tram go by with the tables set
> for dinner ... snow falling ... every one dashing to the train
> station to go home.   It was like a US city 50 years before.
>
> Well, came my day to stumble across the street to the train station
> and catch a train to the airport to come home   Now that is the nice
> thing about Zurich ... a mainline train station in the basement of an
> international airport.
>
> When I walked out of the room, there was the concierge vacuuming the
> hall.   Now, you know Bob that the concierge's job is behind a desk
> in the lobby and not vacuuming on the third floor.   He saw me, the
> vacuum got pushed to the side.   He came running down the hall and
> grabbed my suitcases.  He man was obviously there to see that I got
> to the train station in one piece.   He walked me over to the
> station.  Stood beside me while I fed my money into a ticket vending
> machine and then put the ticket into a validator.   Then he carried
> my suitcases onto the coach.   When I pulled out my wallet to tip
> him, he refused it.   I tried to get the man to take the money.   He
> said, "helping you is my job.  I get a salary to do this."
>
> That man was probably the best salesman the chamber of commerce could
> ever ask for!
>
> The arthritis?   The back has since been opened and the joints
> scraped.   The knees have come from a factory somewhere in the U.
> S.   The shoulders have been opened and rebuilt.  Glucosamine
> Condroyton seems to keep the arthritis at bay.   I find I can walk up
> to six miles for dinner again.   For a while.
>
> And I hope some people do not object to my posting something from
> Europe once in a while.   I call it education.   I think we need to
> see how other people survive in this world with out as much fuel. I
> find it amazing that we are 3% of the world's population burning up
> 20% of the world's fuel.   Europeans burn more than their share too
> but no where near what we consume.    I've spent four years of my
> life over there, half living there and half vacationing.   I never
> cease to enjoy those nations that have cities and countryside instead
> of cities surrounded my miles and miles and miles of suburbs and
> traffic.
>
>
>
> http://www.skiresort.de/english/funicular.htm
>
> http://www.funimag.com/suisse/Funimag-Suisse.htm#zurich
>
> http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ch/funicular/Rigiblickbahn/pix.html
>
> http://www.stadlerrail.ch/index.php?page=233
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zürich
>
>
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>
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> On Sep 18, 2008, at 5:34 PM, robert simpson wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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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