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Act of incorporation and by-laws of the Vancouver Street Railways Company of Vancouver, British Columbia (1899), from archive.org. From David A. Wyatt’s All-Time List of Canadian Transit Systems:
Vancouver Electric Railway and Light Company (28 June 1890 - April 1894)
Incorporated 1886 and again in 1889 (both BC) as the Vancouver Street Railways Company. Reconstituted as the VERy&LCo 21 May 1890 (BC). Entered receivership May 1893. Acquired at bankruptcy by the CRy&LCo.
BC Electric PSA, circa the late 50s or early 1960s. I wonder if this was created around the time bus drivers stopped giving out change for bus fare. Of course, the irony is babies have always been able to ride for free, am I right? This ad is by Jack Grundle, who worked as an art director for BC Electric when he was a commercial artist from 1947 until around 1965.
me harassing people in the subway..
more music in transit, this time in New York…
(Source: facebook.com, via publictransitadventures)
Railroad company logo design evolution
The images below show the evolution after the first logo was trademarked. The first decades are the most interesting, simply because there were so many different. Like the department stores world, the railroad world has it’s own Macy’s. Companies like Amtrak and Union Pacific have taken over many smaller companies. Today, as the result of mergers and bankruptcies there are only eleven major ‘Class I’ railroads operating in the United States and Canada. The early designs all have a certain handmade quality. Most of them are simple, bold, black and white. And timeless. Some of them can still be seen on box cars and locomotives; they still remain powerful.
Commuters reading a paper about commuting. 738 is a micro-newspaper / sketch blog largely drawn in transit. via BoingBoing:
Newspaper Club is a service in London that lets people publish super-limited-edition newspapers. They’re always finding surprising and sweet niches for newspapers. One recent example is Steve Wilkin, an illustrator who rides the 7:38 train from Hebden Bridge to the University of Central Lancashire, where he teaches illustration. For ten years, he’s been sketching the regulars on his train. Now, he’s put out his own micro-newspaper, 738, containing a selection of those sketches, intended for the commuters he rides with every day.
(From Gothamist)
Musical store ad on the “accordion” bus!
the accordion section of the bus, finally being used as it was intended.
Shot within a couple hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon, “Bending Sounds” is a test/experiment to capture the inspirational sounds and visuals of the NYC subway.
T Subway, a work in progress. (Taken with instagram)
For more, see centralsubwaysf.com or follow their blog. Some pretty amazing renderings also appear on flickr.
(via munidiaries)
Rowlberto Productions invites artists to perform their songs on San Diego trolleys, then films them, in what they call, appropriately, The Trolley Show. The trailer for their series is the video above. Their Trolley Show YouTube channel has 9 videos at time of writing.
(The three authors from Vancouver, of course, will have to stretch our imaginations a bit on the word trolley, as San Diego’s trolleys are light-rail vehicles, whereas trolleys in our corner are electric trolley buses running on tires rather than rails.)
