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Occasional Train Blogging: Trams | 90 comments (90 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Occasional Train Blogging: Trams (4.00 / 3)

Oooh, I know about those even less than I knew about trams before writing this diary, so maybe you could do it? If not, I may do so at a later time. (I currently have two more ideas to convert into Occasional Train Bloggings, and that will probably not happen until next year...)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 09:45:48 AM EST
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Re: Occasional Train Blogging: Trams (4.00 / 3)

I'm sure you still know a million times more than I do! I just remember as a little boy thinking the El in Chicago was second only to space missions for total coolness. And today, I still feel like a giddy tourist whenever I ride one of the New York subway lines that suddenly shoot out onto elevated track. Here's a picture of the closest spot where this happens for me:

125 Street No. 1 Station, Harlem

by Matt in NYC on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 10:30:16 AM EST
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Whoops (none / 0)

125th Street Station

By the way, what's the code on ET for inserting pictures into posts?

by Matt in NYC on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 10:33:26 AM EST
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Re: Whoops (none / 1)

The normal html img tag (<img src="http://www.your.site/yourpicture.jpg">). It's in the new user guide.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 10:38:59 AM EST
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Re: Whoops (none / 0)

Thanks! I'd actually tried to find this answer in the New User's Guide but from the FAQ. ET tech-gods, take note: the link (to the New User's Guide) in the FAQ doesn't work.

by Matt in NYC on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 10:42:05 AM EST
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Re: Whoops (4.00 / 2)

There is a direct link in the top right menu. But I corrected the link in the FAQ (it was apparently unchanged since the creation of ET as a daughter of BT).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 10:47:02 AM EST
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Re: Occasional Train Blogging: Trams (4.00 / 2)

The thing is, I admit to being Euro-centric, and there aren't many surviving elevateds here -- I can recall sections in Hamburg and Berlin, and the hanging railway of Wuppertal if that counts. I don't know more about the American ones than what I see in films (Redford/Newman The Sting, Patrick Swayze's Ghost, Lou Diamond Philips/Kiefer Sutherland Renegades etc.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 10:44:03 AM EST
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And don't forget (none / 0)

Spider-Man II! Those supposed NYC scenes were actually filmed on Chicago's El.

by Matt in NYC on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 11:08:10 AM EST
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