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Streetcars, Monday 5 February 19l40
Source: Vancouver Sun
Transit mishaps of yesteryear.
Fageol Twin Coaches…for every type of transit service.
In addition to the six standard models described in this booklet, Twin Coach also manufactures Super Twins and Trolley Coaches for urban service.
For intercity operations, Twin Coach produces Highway Luxury Liners.
All Twin Coach equipment utilizes the some construction and mechanical features which this booklet describes. Super Twins and Intercity highway Luxury Liners are powered with dual Fageol Twin Coach engines that develop 360 H.P. Together, these engines double the power output of prewar power plants without increasing engine weight. Matched hydraulic torque converters eliminate gear shifting and provide smooth, sustained acceleration.
Advertisement for Fageol Twin Coaches, tweaked in PS, originally posted to flickr here.
A startlingly awesome view of trolley wires appears at 7:15 in this video, from a B.C. Electric 1947 Candian Car T-44 bus number 2040, shot from the back window on Sunday, June 19th, 2011 by TranslinkKid. As I commented, someone should mount a wideangle HD cam which can capture surrounding buildings, and shoot an ethereal music video from this perspective! A couple more cool Brill videos, Brill trolleys racing side by side in Vancouver, BC down Hastings Street (2010), and a sad farewell to Brill 2405 (2011).
A streetcar operating on the international streetcar line that connected El Paso, Texas, USA, with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, until 1973.
I did not know about this! Are there any local transit connections between the US and Mexico today? (Detroit and Windsor have a bus.)
Found in Translation - First train ride in Japan did not go as well as hoped. Uploaded to Youtube by japanarchist on Jun 24, 2011.
I’m really going to miss these subway trains. They bring back a lot of memories. I remember always arriving at Bathurst station right on time and catching a train going westbound to Dufferin to get to school, and that train was always an H4. Always.
My brother covered the last run of these trains. Expect some photos to be up on ryansttcphotos.ca and on flickr soon! (:TTC retires its oldest operating subway train — the last with bench seating and without air-conditioning
After 35 years in service and “a lot” of stops across Toronto, the oldest subway train in the TTC’s fleet, the last with bench seating and without air conditioning, was retired Friday morning.
At 7:27 a.m., the H4 train left eastbound for Greenwood Station. From there it crossed the city twice on the Bloor-Danforth line. The train’s arrival at Kennedy Station after 9:00 a.m. was its last stop.
“I don’t think anybody will miss the lack of air conditioning, but they were a good stable hard-working subway train, very reliable in its day,” said TTC spokesperson Brad Ross. “It’s progress, but it’s also some nostalgia on a day like today.” (Photos: TTC)My friend was on the last ride. I’m gonna miss these comfy chairs.
This is a pretty video of Toronto streetcars over the course of a day.
Spadina (the pinkish vertical line at centre-right) goes all wonky at the tail end of the morning rush hour. It’s frustrating on the ground but bunched streetcars bouncing back and forth look kind of cartoonish when rendered this way.
(Source: torontoist.com)
Transit Maps as Art
at Fab.com until tomorrow.
Paris, Washington, Chicago, SF, Moscow, New York and of course, London. A nice alternative to the “official maps.”
The 505, oil on canvas 22” x 46”, a painting by Peter Harris, 2011. A new arrival at the Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver.
