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These are some selected websites we really like. Many of them have links pages, so consider them portals for further exploration. There are additional links on pages for many of our DVDs.

One of our favorites, The Subway Pages, is just links, but what links! They are well organized and annotated, worldwide in scope, and cover far more than just subways - in fact virtually every form of urban rail transit, past and present, is represented here. This is a wonderful starting place for all sorts of web adventures.

If you have an interest in the New York Subway, this is the indispensable first stop. Lots of information on the site itself - history, images, maps (on lots of other systems worldwide as well) - but also dozens of links.

The East Penn Traction Club website is primarily oriented toward modellers, but has dozens of links to operating transit systems, museums, and suppliers to the hobby, like Transit Gloria Mundi!

If modelling European systems is of interest, this British site has lots of information, plus links to domestic (i.e. UK) suppliers as well as overseas suppliers.

There is a lot of interest worldwide in computer simulations of transit systems. If you have Microsoft Train-Sim, this site has lots of freely downloadable transit content - trolley, interurban, and rapid transit. There are lots of cars, contemporary and historical, and routes (what a trolley modeller would call a layout). Train-Sim is a 3D simulation like a video game, where your primary attention is on operating a single car or train.

If your interest is in simulating complex systems with dozens of cars operating all at once, representing the actual schedule of a transit property, BAHN is for you (click link upper left for English version). It's shareware, and there are dozens of simulations of transit systems available for free download, although you can build your own simulation from the ground up as well. The end result on your computer screen is a 2-dimensional simplified stylized map with all the cars in motion at once.

The next four sites are "labor of love" sites, where the authors have done extensive research, amassing lots of photos and maps, and assembled it all with their historical text into an online "book."

One of them is the complete history of streetcars on New Orleans's Canal Street, from horsecars to the present.

Another covers the early history of subway construction in the New York area (including the Hudson Tubes).

Allen Morrison's Electric Transport in Latin America is a terrific compendium of histories, photos, and maps in over 1000 web pages, with nearly 2000 photos.

And finally, a history of the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon, a steam operated narrow gauge predecessor of Pittsburg's current Overbrook light rail line.

If you are interested in trolleys, you are probably interested in more aspects of history than just the trolleys. The Library of Congress's American Memory is an overflowing resource (that's where we get the panoramic maps we use in some of our productions). Go ahead - it's your money - make good use of it!
The Electric Railway Dictionary

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