BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"GENERATION GAP" (Rome, 2012).........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136993

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["7007"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Comparing modern design-LRVs from Rome and Boston.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?137027

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?35892

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

More classic rolling stock............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?134292

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?99171

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27293

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["14"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Though they did not operate in Rome, FIAT-built trolleybuses once ran in several Italian cities..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_2401_Cansa

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[Cyberider]

Some of the postwar European cars looked decent. The Netherlands had some PCC's that looked like narrow American ones. Tatra made some cars that had many PCC features but looked different but still good. The modern LRV's suck no matter where they are.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Cyberider:

Here are several photos of Dutch PCCs; with their standee windows, they'd not be at all out of place here in the States, with the exception of the pans and door panels; handsome, classic cars for sure..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?55665

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?55663 (note the '56 Chevy at the rear; this photo easily could have been taken on a US system, back in the day!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?55668

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?55671

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["7"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here are several views of the classic "Peter Witts" that were once commonplace in Milan; today, giant, mutated centipedes are the norm.

These cars were indeed classics and LOOKED like what they were.....STREETCARS!

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?82085

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?51177

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?12347

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?51127

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?82077

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9309

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["1923"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here we have several photos of the classic "interurbans" of Milan..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?29493

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?29498

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?29468

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?29460

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?82469

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?82447

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["REGGIO 92"]

[Cyberider]

Those Dutch PCC's are real beauties. Don't know what the '56 Chevy was doing there but the German Opels from that era had similar styling in a smaller sized car.

The Italian "Peter Witts" are nice and I think some German cities had something similar. Now, the "global look" has taken over everywhere, it seems.

For what I think of as a "New Look" PCC, the Tatra T3's weren't bad and were used in a lot of Eastern European countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T3

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Cyberider:

Back in the 60s, every Christmas, Mom and I would go into New York (only 15 minutes by bus!) to see all of the glittering store windows and displays (many featured trains!)

At the KLM ticket/travel agency office on 5th Avenue, they had a HUGE diorama depicting a Dutch city (MAGNIFICENT!) that featured two LARGE-SCALE (about "LGB" size) operating "Hague" PCCs, that started and stopped automatically, featuring operating doors!

These beautiful models were obviously custom built, and were VERY realistic; what a thrill to watch them running theough the miniature streets!

About 1970 or so, KLM no longer set up this magificent display.

Sure glad we saw this stunning display a number of times, back in the day!

"NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Giant, mutated centipedes from another world (aka "Toilet Seat" Trams; those hideous front ends say it all),,,,,,

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?99864

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?99857

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["QUICK, HENRY! THE FLIT!"]

["QUARTERMASS & THE PIT"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Recalling a more sedate and nostalgic era in Roman trams.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27302

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?67347

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

This highly unorthodox (and most interesting!) tramway operation hails from Trieste...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?126122

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?126123

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?126124

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Recalling again the era of "classic era" trams in Rome..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?134291

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?134294

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136995

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["7023"]