Saturday, December 03, 2016

Public Transit

Andy | Saturday, December 03, 2016 | Best Blogger Tips
Depending on what part of world you are in there are various names for these vehicles. Trolley, tram, Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) etc. In the City Of Toronto if you say "streetcar" everyone knows what you mean.

21 comments:

  1. Looks very familiar but your trams looks more like trolly's and that has to do with the current receiver I think. In the Netherlands we have now only one city who use them (Arnhem) with a remarkable likeness but on rubber tires and not on rails. The rest of the big cities al use what we call trams.

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  2. We call it a tram here. Every country seems to have its own design, they all look different.

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  3. Rochester had them before my time and then they disappeared.

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  4. In Chicago they were always called "streetcars". Unfortunately the system disappeared long ago, and I only have a childhood memory of riding on them. San Diego has a fine system of streetcars, or light rail. Minneapolis put in two streetcar lines, and is proposing a third which all recreate what was there 50 years or more ago. Your photo is excellent. The overhead wires look like they were designed by a spider.

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  5. I am so envious that you have these things. They no longer exist in this country. After WWII, Detroit's car and bus manufacturers along with President Eisenhower made a deal...get rid of these trams and make buses, trucks and cars! The folks in Detroit bought up the trams and destroyed them. So, it was during the Eisenhower administration that trams were put out of business and the interstate highway system was begun. This was a monumental mistake, in my opinion, and has much to do with the increase in global warming.

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  6. It's Saturday - my day away from public transit...
    But I do like this image - it's very different from my normal weekday public transit - and the red is very nice!

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  7. Nice photo! We never had them when I was growing up. We had a train station and buses.

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  8. Trams! They used to have a tram system in Belfast a long time ago but "modernisation" done away with them!! They have been reintroduced to Dublin in Southern Ireland and Edinburgh in Scotland. You might enjoy my video of "Buses Old and New" on my channel - Outandaboutnorthernireland.com

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  9. I like a word "streetcar". More cozy. We call a tram where I live and if I say a streetcar nobody would know what I talk about:) I like this photo very, very much.

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  10. This must be their meeting point! It always amazes me how many of these vehicles it takes to service a big city.

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  11. Nice shot, Andy! I guess you have special clearance to wander about in the yard! Is that where you worked from?

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  12. Streetcar it is. Great perspective here.

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  13. Interesting to see them all together like that...my usual view is of one headed down the street.

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  14. Well I didn't know they were called street cars, but that's appropriate. Lovely clear photo.

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  15. These trams looks very new. I like this photo.

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  16. Andy I arrived too late to experience the trams in Perth, such a shame they did look wonderful. Your trams here look so shiny and new!

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  17. They are a familiar sight. There was, decades ago, a streetcar system here.

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  18. Bummer we missed this when we were in Toronto this summer.

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  19. Great composition, Andy, with the red forms of the buses (OK, streetcars) and the overhead lines.

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