[PRCo] Dallas film on YouTube

[Schneider Fred]

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority has posted today on their own  
news website a 1953 film of trolleys, mostly at the Texas State Fair  
in Dallas.   There are some PCCs included.  Trolley service in Dallas  
ended three years later.  Yes ... I know ... its 8 mm film ... not  
sharp ... but the railfans in those days were in the north or in  
California.    This is really the first film I have ever seen from  
"Big D little a double ll as."   George Roush may have been the only  
one active in Dallas then ... he was the only one in the NRHS  
directory that I can remember.

http://www.youtube.com/DARTDallas

Now the good news ... On September 14th DART opens the first four  
stations on the Green line, restoring rail service to the state fair  
grounds for the first time in 53 years.   The 2.7 miles that will  
open go from Pearl station on the existing line southeast to Deep  
Ellum, Baylor Medical Center, Fair Park and Martin Luther King, Jr.  
stations.    The remaining 14.9 miles of the Green line are scheduled  
to open in December 2010.

Applause!!!!!!

The website like below leads to the news bulletin they sent out today.

http://www.dart.org/factsheet/greenline/default.asp

For those who missed it ... Vancouver opened the subway to airport on  
the 18th of August ... without fanfare and three months ahead of  
schedule.   Sound Transit opened the first 14 miles of the 15.7 mile  
line from Seattle to the SEATAC airport on July 18th.   Portland is  
supposed to open the Clackamas light line on September 12.  Last of  
all, Los Angeles has pushed back the opening of the East Los Angeles  
extension of the Gold Line into mid October.