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Just to show my appreciation, here's a link to a site with endless pics of the more recent-version Roman trams -
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/it/trams/Roma/pix.html

and one with info and pics on Rome's historical trams and tramlines.

http://xoomer.alice.it/vform/tramroma/index.htm

Here's a pic of one of the newer ones:

A rare photo of a Roman tram in the snow (the tram's common enough, it's the snow+Rome combination that's the real rarity!)-

and one of a real old-timer... dating back to 1911:

...

Sadly, through the years and especially in those from the 1960s through the 1980s, many of Rome's tramlines got discontinued.  The worst-hit seem to have been the longer-distance ones serving the outer suburbs and hinterland - including the Castelli hilltowns zone where I live. :-(

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 03:21:54 PM EST
Nice photos -- you can be counted on for artistic selection :-) I must admit that I'm not too hot about trams, but while searching for the right photos for the diary on those two sites, I found a lot of pictures I liked vewry much as landscape photographs. Here are two autumn pictures from Hampage.Hu I had to leave out from the diary, exclusive for the ET photographers:

The photographer made both on the scenic mountain line 56 I recommended at the end of the diary.

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

by DoDo on Tue Dec 12th, 2006 at 05:57:45 PM EST
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