Monday, April 16, 2018

streetcars and trams

https://nextcity.org/daily/tags/tag/streetcars

https://angelvancouver.com/2012/11/29/early-gastown-history-1907-film-of-streetcar-route-through-vancouver-canada

This clip shows the B.C.E.R. Lulu Island Line interurban on its run from downtown Vancouver through the Arbutus corridor to Marpole and the Fraser River Trestle. Filmed by tram enthusiast Ted Clark around 1949...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCYO6JFANg0 ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWPmxSkI3K0 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muFLCqW4sGM 2016

https://pricetags.ca//?s=LRT&search=Go

PCC and Bombardier Flexity Outlook trams at Lemonnier station in Bruxelles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5cLwEjMeg

The driver's eye view along the Edinburgh Tramway from the city terminus at York Place to Edinburgh Airport. (7 section tram)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fedykCoAY

9 sections = 56m (184ft)
The 56 m long spanish CAF tram in Budapest. Budapest ordered 37 Urbos low-floor bidirectional trams. The 25 five-section trams are 34 m long and the 12 nine-section vehicles are 56 m long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iE0bl9vaKU&t=51s

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/worlds-biggest-tram-network-new-distinction-2018