Dedicated to all forms of Public Mass Transportation. From buses and trams, light rail, streetcars and trolleys, subways and passenger rail. We have information-oriented sites, sites with pictures of equipment and routes, and sites focused on history or a particular system. Also included are a limited number of small commercial sites geared toward the transitfan. Whatever your transit interest, you will find something of value here!
Information on transports within and between cities, looking at technologies both well established and new, showing options which provide viable alternatives to traffic congestion and air pollution - topical and controversial issues which bedevil every industrialised nation globally.
Interesting Stuff - Ecology and railroads. Just Around the Corner by Bertrande H. Snell. Subway straps: where did they go? Penn Central and New York Central Commuter Cars. Ridership stats for most of the commuter rail services in the US. Most railroad passengers today are commuters. Taxpayers underwrite part of this cost and the ride is now more comfortable and the future more secure than ever before.
Original purpose of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western was to bring Scranton to the world. In the process, it became a major trunk line. It was a very important link for commuters in New Jersey. Lackawanna had a 34-mile branch to Ithaca. It ran between Owego on the DL&W main line and the college town of Ithaca on Cayuga Lake. It had important branches to Utica and to Syracuse to Oswego. It even had a branch to the resort community of Richfield Springs.
People drive because they like that sense of being their own person and the freedom, which is being pushed away by the government and the oil men by robbing us at the pumps, because people feel they are being forced into riding the buses.
Photos of old and current buses from around the world such as Greyhounds, Trailways, Public Service, British doubledeckers... along with comments and memories from retired bus drivers and other bus fans.
Comprehensive list of the tram, trolley, light rail, heavy rail, subway, commuter rail systems in North America. Find out who owns them, who runs them, where they go, what equipment they have.
The information and photo resource for anything transit related in and around the Montreal area, with over 20,000 photos in our gallery! We also have news and updates on the state of transit in the area and we have information about local events and transitfan charters. You can also join our Transitfan Discussion Forum to discuss your thoughts and opinons about public transit.
New Jersey's Answer To Tehachapi. Route that the Sealand container trains take from Buffalo to New York. I've got an old stock certificate from the Warwick Valley Rail Road Company which became the Lehigh & Hudson River RR. New York, Susquehanna & Western. Campbell Hall. Tower XA.
Site for special interest video producer, whose titles are mainly related to transport subjects, and include videos on buses, trolleybuses, and model railways
Vous y retrouverez des photos de bus Français et du reste du monde. Mais aussi un grand nombre de bus en papier @ découper, un forum Francophone et plein d'autres choses. Je vous dit à bientôt.
The site content bus pictures from France and oversees, many models of paper bus, a Forum (french language) and more. See you soon.
Barraclou.com offers you lots of U.S. and Canadian transit buses, coaches and stations pictures and videos, including Greyhound, Orleans Express, Limocar, Intercar, Autobus Maheux, Coach USA, Coach Canada, STM, RTC, TTC, GO Transit, YRT, Viva, Mississauga Transit, Brampton Transit and many more.
A history and a sightseeing tour of the "Hudson Tubes" (Hudson & Manhattan Railroad - PATH trains), one of the earliest subways of the world, along with image galleries of the Tubes, past and present. Both English and German versions. Since the terrorist attacks on America there are also regular news updates on current and planned operations of "PATH".
