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Thanks  Dodo, for listening to my prayers. I used to go to school in one of those.


well not quite . but I had to go up that hill

with one of those


on the left

and even though I wanted to, I never actually went into one of these:

which is no excuse, since they are

still going

by PeWi on Mon Jan 30th, 2006 at 11:23:40 AM EST
For your viewing pleasure: RailFanEurope has a lot of photos of the trolley-buses in my hometown Budapest (as well as another Hungarian city; those of Budapest are the red ones).

You'll recognise three types: on the first pictures a modern type of Polish-Hungarian production, then pictures of an earlier Hungarian articulated type (made by Ikarus, which used to be the semi-monopolist bus builder in the 'Communist' Bloc, their chief factory is just a kilometre from my home). Further down you'll see a typical sillyness of planned economy: an older Soviet type; Ikarus used to make non-articulated units too, but for some reason those went to the USSR. (On the other hand, on the bad inner-city roads of Budapest, the old Russian type's suspension is better than the hypermodern new one's...)



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Jan 30th, 2006 at 03:26:43 PM EST
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When ever I see O-Busses, I have to think of the joke about the driver, who wanted to make up time by overtaking his colleague....
by PeWi on Mon Jan 30th, 2006 at 06:51:21 PM EST
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