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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:31 pm    Post subject: When in Rome............. Reply with quote
This is an interesting page (w/many photos) of Rome's METRO system

Like some of the subway lines in Tokyo, this system utilizes overhead wires.........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Metro
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For many years, there were quite a few "classic era" trams clattering and hissing along the ancient streets of Rome; today, insectoid-like LRVs dominate the scene.

There is some interesting discussions on both past and present rolling stock...........

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

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rome's Metro, buses, trams, heavy rail, etc...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Rome
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also of interest.........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome-Lido_railway
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Classic-era" Roman trams............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?134297

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?134290

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?134289

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?62310

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?62309

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This 1979 photo one of the Metro's streamlined trainsets from the 1950s, at an outdoor station...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?126129
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sadly, in recent years, the Metro (like New York's subways in the 1970s and 1980s) is not immune to the scourge of graffiti........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136924

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?126155
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some more photos of historic Roman trams.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9888

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

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27317

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27288

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27290

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here is an interesting photo gallery of some colorful historic Italian buses........

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_buses_in_Italy
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
More photos of vintage Italian buses*.........

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Storicbus

*(Note photo of the unusual "slant top" Giat-412 double-decker; back in the 1960s and 1970s, these distinctive buses also operated in Rome)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Outside of rail historians, few know of the Vatican Railway, the shortest national railway system in the world...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Railway
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also of interest.........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Termini_railway_station
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
From the 1950s and into the 1980s, these sleek and highly-distinctive high speed electrics once operated out of Rome.

Thankfully, one of these handsome, distinctive, historic electric trains survives today...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS_Class_ETR_300
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Note the 1950s photo depicting one of the aforementioned high-speed electrics of the 1950s and 1960s...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrovie_dello_Stato_Italiane
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 12:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wanted to also include these photos of handsome and historic trams in Milan......

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

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

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?79553

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9338

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?82084
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