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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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History, development, rolling stock, etc. of the Moscow Metro*......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro
(There are also a number of photos showing historical rolling stock, as well as of the breathtaking, elaborate stations) |
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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As Poland today is proving sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of Ukranian refugees, I thought it appropriate to include this page, which has links to photos of tram and Metro systems in Poland......
https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Poland |
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 12:07 am Post subject: |
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Here is an excellent photo page on the "MTB" trolleybuses, which, clearly, replicated YELLOW Old Looks.
These particular vehicles ran in Budapest* until the 1960's.......
https://villamosok.hu/troli/mtb/mtb82_en.html
*There are also many other vintage photos of these trolleybuses operating in other Soviet cities.
Be sure, also, to check out the rare photos where these YELLOW-style bodies were used in the building of trams (using bow collectors)......
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Here is a rare b/w photo of a Russian double-deck trolleybus.
With the exception of the very narrow destination sign slot, the vehicle is virtually identicle to those then in use in London.
Could this have been a British-built unit?
Or (as I am more leaning towards) a Russian copy of a British vehicle......
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/565975878153990432/ |
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:24 am Post subject: |
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For comparison to the double-deck Russian trolleybus (seen in the previous link), here's a picture of a preserved ex-LT trolleybus, at the LT Museum in London......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?23637
(courtesy: nycsubway.org) |
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:39 am Post subject: |
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On a somewhat related note, from prior to WW1 and into the 1920's, a large number of London (Tube) Underground cars were built by European manufacturers.
Many cars were built in France, Hungary, and Belgium.
Other early Tube stock were built by ACF in America; later, ACF opened it's own plant near London........
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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While watching the news tonight, I saw several scenes were mangled buses and trolleybuses were seen, abandoned in the streets; one scene showed the mangled hulk of what had been an articulated trolleybus, its poles twisted and bent, caught in dangling, twisted overhead.
A number of scenes show devastated streets where trolleybus overhead was evident.
A British correspondent on ABC, Ian Pannell, has been doing an outstanding, courageous, and truly "in depth" series of on-location reports since the War began.
This stalwart fellow has been providing excellent coverage in Ukraine, just as he did several months ago, when he covered the evacuation of Afgahnistan.
Tonight, he again was seen descending an escalator, one of several in a "bank" leading down to the Metro platforms, where so many now-homeless Ukranians are seeking shelter.
This one station's escalator bank was remarkably similar to that used in the Earl's Court Underground station in London.
These stations are atkin to London's "deep level" tubes, located hundreds of feet below the surface.
May the Ukranian people remain steadfast and strong, and one day, emerge victorious, and, once again, safe.....
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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......the other evening on the news, I saw the bombed-out remains of a Ukranian bus garage and yard (not sure which city this was).
The garage was virtually destroyed, and what remained of the large numbers of buses that had been stored in the yard were now little more than mangled, twisted hulks.
Indeed sobering.......
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:02 am Post subject: |
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On ABC World News With David Muir I watched footage showing the Ukrainian railway station (which had been hit by missile fire) a few days prior to the horrific attack which killed so many innocent people, trying to flee.
A train was at the platform; it was an older train, with coaches that reminded me of the European-style HO coaches MARKLIN made back in the 1960's......
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:34 am Post subject: |
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Moscow's Metro.......
Until the 1960's, the Metro was entirely underground; the 1960's saw outdoor extensions appear; these outdoor extensions were, at the time, deemed much less expensive to build than underground sections.
Interestingly, the Metro was the first underground railway constructed under a strict Communist regime, and Joseph Stalin was determined that it would impress the rival capitalist world.
Some of have said that the Metro functioned, in the early years, as a vehicle to promote the mythology of the Soviet state and to glorify Stalin.
The construction for Moscow's new subway began in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, which was then gripping the "capitalist world".
The first line opened in 1935 despite the bombings of WW2, the Metro was expanded greatly during the postwar years.......
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