(This was originally posted as Ongoing rail series at Daily Kos)
Excuse me if this has already been referenced anywhere in the Trains.com forums, but there is an on-going series on passenger rail - rail transit over at Daily Kos. Lots of good pictures and links to rail systems around the world, with discussion of how they work. If you’ve been scared away from Daily Kos by fear-mongering from Bill O’Reilly at FOX news, rest assured that these articles are pretty straight forward and educational in nature. I thought I’d post about it here. That being said…
WARNING: The pictures, videos and rail system maps to be found in this series may whet your appetite for foreign travel, make you demand new scale models for your layouts instead of yet another Hudson or GP-38, make you think seriously about adding some catenary to your existing layout, and expose you to a whole new world of railroading almost entirely unknown to Americans.
Part 1 is here
Local Rail (1)
Part 2 is here
Local Rail (2/5): Rapid transit
Part Three is up
Local Rail (3/5): Subways, metros and RER
Part 4 is here
Local Rail (4/5): Light Rail, Tram-Bus
Part 5 is here
Local Rail (5/5): Light Metro, Tram-Train, Conclusion
If you haven’t been to Daily Kos before, it is a very active community devoted to progressive politics and associated topics. That happens to include discussion of rail policies in the U.S. Anyone is welcome to read postings and comments; register at Daily Kos (no charge) and you can post and comment as well. There’s lots of interesting passenger rail info in the series so far, along with pictures, maps, and possibly even occasio