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Here's a interesting page on the sleek Kolkata Metro (India)...........

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

["METRO RAILWAY"]

The Cairo Metro, the first built in the Middle East...........

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

["LINE 1"]

I just came across this photo (had not seen this one previously) taken at the 36th Street yards (1960s)

Note the row of "Shermans" at left; these appear to be buses still in revenue servi ...

Station signage/tile (BSS); compare to IND tilework............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?95817

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?143850

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?143934 ...

33rd Street, just prior to the "PA" car-era (ahhh, what happy childhood memories this timeless scene evokes!) Wink

Note the spacious, modern layout here; this easily could have been an ...

Wb.:

Talk about "NOSTALGIA".........Your's Truly (when he was MUCH, MUCH younger!) clearly recalls this incandescent-lit entrance sign at 33rd Street, directing passengers to the IRT/BMT/ ...

W.B.:

Agreed 100%.

I have often thought that, had the "Eye-Are-Tee" opened either new "on line" stations (or, as part of a new line) during the 1930s, the overall design/tile ...

traildriver:

You are indeed a GENTLEMAN, and I DO sincerely thank you, my friend, with the kind compliments....MUCH appreciated! Wink

For many years, I was a member of a rail forum (and, in fa ...

The same yard, in a view dating to the 1980s.

Here we have a group of RTS awaiting their next runs, in the right background.

Note also, the ancient BRT line poles now carrying modern street ligh ...

Though an ancient "Lo-V" work motor dominates the foreground, note the line of Old Looks (aka "Shermans") in the background.

As these buses look to be in good shape (and are sti ...

Here are several interesting photos (dating from the 1950s through the 1970s, of a variety of buses (in service/retired) at the BMT's 36th Street yards...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/sho ...

Another interesting "mystery" surrounding the long-abandoned "bus repository" between the El ramps at Fresh Pond, is that virtually all photos show Old Looks (aka "Shermans&qu ...

Interesting, also, to compare the original, 1900s-era mosaics in the IRT stations with the more modern, more "streamlined" tiled signs typical of the IND, by the 1930s.

Many BMT signs wer ...

In 1970, the last ex-SURFACE TDH-5106s were retired; for some time, they were stored in the yard at the Colesium depot.

One of these distinctive buses (with the protruding front sign box) can be se ...

In this photo from 1971 (which I linked previously) you can glimpsed an a/c equipped bus; I doubt if a bus this new (in 1971) was going to be scrapped, unless it had been involved in a serious acciden ...