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Check out the historic (and charming!) underground (rubber-tired) "TUNEL" funicular "Metro" in Istanbul...... Wink

https://life-globe.com/en/tunel-istanbul/

["TUNEL&q ...

A few glimpses of the now-departed R-44s, back in the 1976...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5694

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?37167

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?11 ...

Glasgow Subway's rolling stock through the years: (as you can see, they bear no resemblence to any American rapid transit rolling stock)

The original cars ("coaches") were indeed quite ch ...

Historical note........

The Haifa "subway" was not the only underground transit operation to use cable traction.

Glasgow's subway (opened in the 1890s) utilized cable operation until t ...

Again, recalling the Roosevelt Island Tram, the buses, and the subways, as they were, back in 1976............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?38703

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?38701 ...

The street entrances are like a modernized IRT entrance...

traildriver:

Ahhhh, so you noticed that too! Wink

A saw a few entrances that indeed reminded me of the ol' "Eye-Are-Tee" ...

Also of interest.............

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/roosevelt-island-tramway

["ROOSEVELT ISLAND"]

And in 1976, the classic subway rolling stock then in use were blatantly defaced by graffiti, and ravaged by deferred upkeep.

Still, unlike today, there was still so much variety for the enthusiast ...

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When the Roosevelt Island Tramway opened in 1976, these were the buses which were still plying "Noo Yawk's" bustling streets..................

https://www.nycsubwa ...

When the Roosevelt Island Tramway opened in 1976...........

The "Em-Tee-Yay's bus fleet was comprised of Fishbowls ("Jetsons" and "Bullets") and "Dangerfields".
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Here's an article on the "Clockwork Orange's" (Glasgow) new (driverless) hi-tech subway trains...........aka "SoQ's" ("Spawn of Quartermass") Shocked

Interesting arti ...

Here in "Noo Yawk", of course, the only cable-operated transit venue is the Roosevelt Island Tramway......

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

This was also, interes ...

Just came across this interesting page..........

https://ggwash.org/view/63139/meet-the-most-bizarre-subway-in-the-world-israels-funicular-carmelit

["down town"]

Interesting photo gallery of the Glasgow Subway's rolling stock*, past and present............

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

["GOVAN"]

*(interesting to ...

Important to recall, also, that the original "Bridge Railway" trains that crossed the Brooklyn Bridge prior to the electrification of the then-expanding El network were also hauled by cable ...