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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Kyiv's trolleybus network is the largest in the Ukraine.
Note vintage photos (note older photo where the electric coaches are operating together in a "train")............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Kyiv |
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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In Donestk (Eastern Ukraine) this past Thursday, a shell hit a bus stop, wrecking a trolleybus and killing eight people......
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:14 am Post subject: |
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This extensive (1997) page features several interesting (and illustrated) articles on electric transit/light rail.
Scroll down page for an excellent article (w/photos) on the TATRA cars operating in Pyongyang, North Korea.......
https://erausa.org/pdf/headlights-previews/1997-headlights-04.pdf |
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Earlier on the news, there was a frightening scene along a deserted street in Kyiv, on which trolley buses operated.
A sudden explosion shook the street, and the trolleybus overhead danced and and twisted about like snakes; indeed, it WAS surreal to watch....as well as sobering
Who knows when (or if) the trolley buses will ever return; and, of course, will life ever return to the way it was, just one short week ago, for the thousands upon thousands of law-abiding, hard-working Ukranian, citizens now displaced.....
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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"UKrFERRY" provides ferry service (on the Black Sea) between the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia.
There are also photos of their huge vessels* on this page......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UkrFerry
*(According to this page, two out of three vessels are Danish owned)
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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......just finished watching an excellent (and, indeed, sobering) report on ABC's (7) World News Tonight, covering the refugee exodus out of the Ukraine, via buses.
Surprisingly, no older buses were seen; these buses were of the up-to-date "highway coach" type, nothing that could be considered "old", as you would usually think you would see, bus-wise, in that part of the world.
Excellent, professional report.....but truly heartbreaking.....
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Here is an OUTSTANDING gallery of historical photos on Moscow's trolleybuses; many early pictures are here, as well as photos from the 1950's through the 197o's.
Be sure to note the "Yellow Coach-knock-offs" on the streets of Moscow, many years ago.
This is an EXCELLENT collection of rare trolleybuses photos*......
https://www.rferl.org/a/end-of-the-line-for-moscow-s-trolleybuses/27670769.html
*Of particular interest here, note the one old b/w photo showing a double-decker trolleybus; I had no idea these ever operated in Moscow.
It is virtually identical to the ones then operating in London. |
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Here is an excellent, detailed page on the Kyiv Metro system (history, rolling stock, operations, etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro
The "wagons", as the rolling stock is referred to as, are mostly Soviet-era....... |
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