#trolleycar

[amazonykamiaba]

I was watching Song of Back and Neck with Paul Lieberstein and the movie didn't have Pt-Br subs, I'm happy for being able to understand almost everything

Hmmmm 🤌 probably gonna post more HR Boi stuff

[nicklloydnow]

“"Do I dream? Yes. Do you not revisit Hiroshima in your dreams?"

"I don't invite my dreams."” - Thomas Harris, ‘Hannibal Rising’ (2006) [p. 168]

“There were people who escaped from Hiroshima and rushed to Nagasaki to see that their loved ones were safe. Arriving just in time to be incinerated. He went there after the war with a team of scientists. My father. He said that everything was rusty. Everything looked covered with rust. There were burnt-out shells of trolleycars standing in the streets. The glass melted out of the sashes and pooled on the bricks. Seated on the blackened springs the charred skeletons of the passengers with their clothes and hair gone and their bones hung with blackened strips of flesh. Their eyes boiled from their sockets. Lips and noses burned away. Sitting in their seats laughing. The living walked about but there was no place to go. They waded by the thousands into the river and died there. They were like insects in that no one direction was preferable to another. Burning people crawled among the corpses like some horror in a vast crematorium. They simply thought that the world had ended. It hardly even occurred to them that it had anything to do with the war. They carried their skin bundled up in their arms before them like wash that it not drag in the rubble and ash and they passed one another mindlessly on their mindless journeyings over the smoking afterground, the sighted no better served than the blind. The news of all this did not even leave the city for two days. Those who survived would often remember these horrors with a certain aesthetic to them. In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry a thousand years. Like an immense bladder, they would say. Like some sea thing. Wobbling slightly on the near horizon. Then the unspeakable noise. They saw birds in the dawn sky ignite and explode soundlessly and fall in long arcs earthward like burning party favors.” - Cormac McCarthy ‘The Passenger’ (2022) [p. 115,116]

[vidoeslot]

what are your thoughts on buses... i take them every day and it makes me so happy theyre so pretty........

I love them in theory but they're too similar to cars for me 😭😭😭 and unfortunately I live in the US so our bus system is.... not fantastic. I REALLY like bus-adjacent transport like trolleycars and trolleybuses though!!

[13thpythagoras]

i love how in the German language they'll have a word for like, a green trolleycar that's gone off its rails and is hurtling towards a family of ducks, on a Tuesday when there's a 40% chance of rain in the next 25 minutes ...aufinbitzermischtezachtenstaberhoffenbrau or something lol

[warondrab]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Trolley Car Puzzle Time.

[fishmech]

Roaring Brook, under the Harrison Ave Bridge, from an Electric City Trolley Museum excursion in an old Philadelphia & Western trolleycar, on the old Laurel Line in Scranton, PA

[digitldesignsbyrae]

Transportation toys! #bus #schoolbus #trolleycar #3dpapercraft #papertoy #foldable #printable #Etsy https://instagr.am/p/Ctzuai7oHAq/

[old-transport]

Glasgow tram No. 1089 last day procession in colour by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: A version of an old photograph *colourised and © by me (if you want to use it, at least credit me and link to this description!) taken at Bridgeton (looking down James Street?) of Glasgow Corporation Tramways (GCT) experimental single deck car No. 1089 (aka Baillie Burt's car) on the tramway final day procession. 

 The original B&W photo is here:- flic.kr/p/2mbw4hP 

 The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer and/or negative owner name C. Carter and annotated with "closing procession, Bridgeton". 

 No. 1089 was built by GCT to try and compete against the incursion into passenger tram numbers by buses, it seated 36 on upholstered seats and ran on Brill 77E1 bogies, going into service Aug 1926. In Mar 1950 it was put into storage at Langside Depot but was then sent to Coplawhill in Dec 1951 to have its seating reduced to 20 which allowed an increase to 38 for those standing. With this increase and the resulting faster passenger flow it was put to work on the very busy shipyard services, this stopped when in Aug 1960 the number of standing passengers was limited to five, from then it was used only occasionally but following the loss of fifty cars in the Dalmarnock Depot fire on 22 Mar 1961 it was was put back into regular service. From Jun 1960 it was again in storage, this time at Partick Depot until being given a repaint to take part in the tram procession to commemorate the Glasgow tramways closure on 4 Sep 1962. Afterwards it avoided the scrap man and now resides as a static exhibit in the Riverside Museum which houses the vehicles that were once in the Glasgow Museum of Transport. 

 😱 If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks. 

 * My coloured images are more sketch or watercolour like than colour transparency or print like. They are an impression of that subject and period, rather than an accurate representation of how the image/subject actually looked when the photo was taken.

[ladykdesigns]

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🚋 . . . . . . #tbt #travel #lisboa #lisbon #portugal #trolleycar #trolley #streetartphotography video #views #graffiti #streetart #streetartlisbon #adventure #explore #wander #tag #lookcloser #europe (at Bairro Alto, Lisboa, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv2f0Vah0ah/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c3ca2wd4iynf

[supertrainstationh]

SEPTA, Philadelphia: 9038 1982 Kawasaki K-type car turning from Island Avenue into the depot at Island and Elmwood, off duty from Line 13. by Mega Anorak Via Flickr: The Island Avenue tracks run directly into the depot and are not connected to Line 36 at the Elmwood/Island intersection.

[tamperista]

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This energetic trio of tampers is now in the Mission District of San Francisco, where connoisseurs take their espresso seriously! Two of them illustrate a spiralling segmented design, and all three have handle inserts celebrating the history of San Francisco. Music by Dave Brubeck and the peerless Paul Desmond!

[travelisthecure]

It wouldn’t be a proper trip to San Francisco without a trolly ride, would it? Truth be told, when I lived there I found them to be SO annoying. 🤦🏼‍♀️ In law school, one of my apartments (the smallest place I’ve ever lived in, actually, at a whopping 400 sq. ft.) was on top of the Stockton Tunnel, across from the Ritz Carlton on California Street. At the time, I didn’t have a car and relied on either walking or public transportation to get around—especially to and from my school. Well, since California Street is one of the trolly streets, it meant the buses didn’t go there. And if you’re familiar with that part of the city, you’ll know that California Street going from the FiDi to Nob Hill is a STEEP. ASS. HILL. Walking it of course provided great exercise but if I was coming from my internship and was in a suit and heels, it was awful. And the worst part is that the bus and metro pass that gets you all around the city doesn’t count for the trolly. So if I wanted a short ride up the hill, it’d cost me 5 bucks each time. That’s just a funny story, and hopefully not something to deter you from hopping on the trolly at least once. It’s sort of a rite of passage for first time visitors. How about you? Have you been on a SF trolley before? 🚋 #trolley #trolleycar #trolleysf #sftrolley #sanfrancisco #sf #whattodoinsf #sfblog #instagramspotsinsf #ilovetravel #justbackfrom #traveladdict #travelandlife #travelblogger #travelbloggers #travelblog #traveldiary #traveljournal #travelphotography #traveltips #travelwithme #iamtraveler #travelguide #travelcommunity #thetraveltribe #travellifestyle #mytravelgram #travelpic #travellife #wheretogonext (at Union Square, San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_62-gliJ6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[warondrab]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Trolley Car Puzzle Time.

[digitldesignsbyrae]

Transportation toys! #bus #schoolbus #trolleycar #3dpapercraft #papertoy #foldable #printable #Etsy https://instagr.am/p/CryqIKCxMS8/

[old-transport]

Leeds 'Middleton Bogie' No. 265 - LTHS slide by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: An old photograph (35mm colour slide) of Leeds City Tramways (LCT) car No. 265 showing a '3 - Roundhay Circular' destination blind. 

 The photo is from a 35mm colour slide produced by The Leeds Transport Historical Society. 

lths.co.uk 

 The 'Middleton Bogie' class were designed by the then General Manager (1932 - 1949) W. Vane Morland to run on the fast reserved express tracks such as the Middleton route, As well as innovative feature such as regenerative motors they had a body of steel panels on a teak frame with steel underframe and for driver comfort had a separate driver compartment with a tip up seat. 

 No. 265 was built by English Electric seating 30/40, ran on a pair of Maley & Taunton equal wheel swing link bogies, and first went into passenger service in Feb 1935. When new it had three destination blinds which was changed to just one (as in this photo) in Aug 1948. It last ran in service Oct 1956 and in the December was burned at Lowfields Road Permanent Way Yard. 

 The parts of the Leeds tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed in Nov 1959.

[cliffcrampillustration]

#trolley #trolleycar #art #illustration #artistsoninstagram #cityscape