[PRCo] Heritage 2

[Fred Schneider]

Heritage #2 from Peter Folger 
Sunday 19 Septembre 2010.  Anniversary Celebration of 125 Years of the International Union of Public Transport with the participation of old trams from other European cities:  Amsterdam, La Haye (Den Haag or The Hague in Holland), Liége, Milan, Munich, Nantes, Paris, Rotterdam, Vienne (Wien or Vienna in English).   The British are not the only ones guilty of changing the spelling of other nation's cities!    This is the ultimate trolley museum.   Because the equipment is run on weekends over a STIB route in Brussels, the only operators are qualified STIB motormen volunteering on the weekends.   This is one of those museums to visit in your lifetime ... beats hell out of some of our ferrous oxide deposits. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FGjDqwFeA&feature=related

Tranvía de Sóller.   Sóller is on the island of Mallorca off the coast of Spain.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W74il9tL-f0&feature=related

Tranvia de Soller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZkuwbAvgJo&feature=related

Puerto Soller Tramway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzlO-KNYhTU&feature=related

Freight trams in Budapest.   Makes the right noises.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBhvllkyf4M

Kisföldalatti szállítása két Muki segítségével.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt3DhD_m0A&feature=related

72 Years Trolleybus Winterthur - The BBC Film 1938 - English Titel.   As an aside, there used to be great joke books when I was in the army in Germany about the rather curious words in the German language ... those false cognates that were so funny to the men in the army who were just out of their teens.   Naturally the most favored were those relating to the verb infinitive "to travel" or "fahren" in German.   An autobahn exit is an AUSFAHRT.   An entrance is an EINFAHRT.   And the all time favorite, the sign over the through traffic lanes ...  FREIFAHRT.   

Beside the entrance door on one of these Winterthur trolleybuses in Switzerland those with sharp eyes will spot another one of those great words, the one for electrically powered transportation ... ELEKTROFAHRT.   I'll bet they really keep the bus warm on a snowy winter day!    :<)  

Don't we wish we could find some great movies of the Laurel Canyon trolley coach in Los Angeles or the primitive Brill railless coaches in Philadelphia or Baltimore?   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgaWlTSv1Q&feature=related