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  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 12:16 am   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
Another interesting historical page, this one focusing on the trams that once ran in Hanoi (a number of rare vintage photos are also this page)............

https://vietnamnet.vn/en/spanshots-of-tra ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 9:35 pm   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
Here's an interesting historical page (w/photos) on Saigon's bygone trams, which made their final runs in 1957.......

https://www.historicvietnam.com/sai-gon-tramway-network/

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  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 9:14 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Cyberider:

THANK YOU, sir, for the most unexpected (and MOST welcome!) kind words....I DO thank you! Wink

I've been a member of this forum for nearly two decades now; I have learned so much o ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:27 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Broadway & 159th, 1983 ("stoa")...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156277

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["M5"]
  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:19 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
"Toid rail" in "Shik-aga"................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?31942

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?14670

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:07 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
W.B.:

You're the expert on "toid rails", not Your's Truly! Wink

Speaking of which, recall, out in "Shik-aga", that the interurban trains of the CA&E and the NORTH SHOR ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 2:26 pm   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
Chinese tram systems (note one photo which shows tram that looks to have been patterned after a Peter Witt)..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_China

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  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 2:22 pm   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
Urban rail transit in China............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_China

["JX"]
  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 2:12 pm   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
Beijing's sprawling network of rapid transit lines today totals nearly thirty in all.

First opening in 1971, this system is quite complex and had extensive services; some lines extend out to the su ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 10:12 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Back in 1983, we "stoa' RTS "PA2434" working the "M10"..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156286

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 10:04 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
"Conductor rails" (i.e. third rails) in Great Britain........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?146351 (note the old-style "conductor" rail between the running rails; in more ...
  Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 9:47 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future.......
(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

Two views of vintage "S-BAHN" rolling stock, with good views the type of third rail used......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?60781

https://www.nycsubway.o ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 12:48 am   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
Here are a few interesting links on rail transport in Singapore........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Singapore (the trams were ...
  Topic: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 12:20 am   Subject: Israel's only subway/Overseas subways/Metros/trams
(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

The Bangkok of today is a thousand light-years removed from the fabled city depicted in the various "King & I" films.

Today, it has a complex and modern rapid ...
  Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 9:13 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland!
Here's another "PA"-series GRUMMAN from "Joisey" back in 1982.

On the left, note a close childhood friend of mine, a vintage NHBL "Sherman", (still sporting the classi ...
 
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