And the big one, the New Orleans RTA St Charles Line. Opened in 1835 with steam locomotives imported from England, it is *the* oldest surviving streetcar/tram line in the world. After experiments with overhead moving cables, chemical engines using ammonia, fireless steam, and even going back to horses, it was one the first in the world to use overhead electrification. Today it still uses 1924-built Perley Thomas streetcars (900 series) and a few 1990s built replicas (400 series). Other than a street running segment in the CBD, it is on a dedicated right of way in a grassy median.
#transit #NewOrleans #rail200

There’s a Rail 200 exhibition on Platform 8 at Paddington, with a nicely liveried Class 66 at the front. I didn’t have the time to go through, hopefully we get a Jago Hazzard video on it in the near future. #Rail200

200 years of the railway.
Rather shockingly I've lived through more than a third of that!
Breeching, demise of steam, reduction of night trains, HSR, privatisation, and no more British Rail yellow fruit cake.
#Rail200