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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!

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Public Transportation: North American rail systems Preview — Go
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.

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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway Preview — Go
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.

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Commuters, Car Culture and Ecology Preview — Go
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.

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Railroads West of the Hudson like The Warwick Valley Preview — Go
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.

New Zealand Bus Museum Preview — Go
A site for NZ bus enthusiasts with a record of buses in public and private collections throughout New Zealand. Tracking the location of some of the older New Zealand buses. In the future NZ bus history articles.

The Train Mon Web Preview — Go
Transportation: MBTA, PVTA, MTA, NYCT, Metro-North, LIRR, Miami-Dade Transit Authority, Amtrak, USAir, UPS, FedEX, Piedmont, United. People and Places: Imette, BLS, Boston, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, Northampton, MA, Mt. Sugarloaf, MA, S. Deerfield, MA New Haven, CT, Miami, FL Orangeburg, SC, Charlestown, SC.

Transit World Preview — Go
Discover the world of transit at Transit World

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Canadian Scale Transport Models Preview — Go
1/43rd scale models custom built by St Petersburg Tram Collection, modelling Canadian prototype buses, trolleybuses and streetcars, as well as related books from time to time.

Montevideo Central Station defense group. Preview — Go
Passenger Group defending Montevideo Central Station.

Tram and Trolleybus Images Preview — Go
This site contains mainly Australasian tram and trolleybus images, in Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo, Adelaide (Australia), and Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington (New Zealand). The site is regularly updated, particularly with current happenings in Melbourne such as pictures of tramway extension wo