As you know by now, the MBTA’s long running trackless trolleys are being retired at the end of service on March 12th. The Boston Street Railway Association, essentially Boston’s top railfan organization, organized a Farewell to the Trackless Trolleys fantrip on February 19th, and I attended, so now Meirk wants me to give a retelling […]
Since the trolleybus system of Boston is shutting down today, we wanted to pay it homage in the form of two articles, this one containing a boatload of pictures mostly taken by me, mostly as I walked the system on February 23rd, 2022. The pictures will be provided as we walked (chronologically), and not exactly […]
I apologise for the quick and informal, I would like to forward this petition about saving the trolleybuses in Boston, the MBTA has planned to close the system within the coming months, and have only recently announced that it will be in March. From what I know the general opinion about this closure has been […]
Prologue Sorry for not getting to this earlier, this is hopefully going to be a quick review of two of Pittsburgh‘s (relatively) unique elements of transport: Overview I’d like to share this inspiring, emotional quotation that will tell you everything: “It’s Pittsburgh[,] [e]verything is blocked by a hill[.]” – Daria Phoebe So… as you can […]
Prologue Why? What’s wrong with you? Why are you reviewing a cable car?!?!? In the “mission statement”, I said that I’ll review everything that’s mechanically or linguistically a tram, and yes, that includes aerial trams, as those are trams for some reason. So, the next time you build a cable car (or any kind of […]