To find out more about this year’s photo challenge here on Travel Words, please read this post.
This week I am going to look at transport, including another of those wonderful streetcars from San Francisco. But we’ll begin with this lovely traditional Maltese bus. The old Malta buses were really something truly unique and one of the most recognisable icons of Malta. The last of these old Maltese buses were yellow in colour with an orange horizontal stripe and their Gozitan counterparts grey coloured with a red horizontal stripe. The vast majority of the buses started and ended their trips at the main terminus in Valletta with a few operating on circular routes. Sadly these were phased out in 2011.
Milan, Italy 1856, built in 1928 and still operational. The second most common type of streetcar in Muni’s historic fleet is an American classic with an Italian accent. This type of car is named for Cleveland street railway commissioner Peter Witt, who designed it for his Ohio city around 1915. The concept was to speed loading by putting the conductor in the middle of the car, letting crowds board through the front door and paying as they passed the conductor. The design was also exported to world cities such as Toronto, Mexico City, Madrid, and three Italian cities, Naples, Turin, and Milan where they still operate today.
(In the 1970s, the Milan tram fleet was repainted a solid orange, the livery worn by the remainder of Muni’s Milan trams)
If you want to learn more about San Francisco’s historic streetcars and cable cars then please visit the Market Street Railway Museum.
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They are very eye-catching, Jude.
I’m trying to think of the colour of the trams in Melbourne. I have a vague idea that they had some historic ones like these.
Melbourne is so lucky to have trams. They probably do have some old ones. I haven’t really been a tourist in Melbourne. I’ve only travelled there for work so all I’ve seen is the inside of a taxi!
Well there is a Melbourne tram in San Fran! I do hope they still have some running there. You are in or near Canberra aren’t you? Great transport links, but sadly no trams.
I’m in Canberra. We now have a tram! Doesn’t go through my part of town though. Still, it s all very exciting.
Oh, wow, that’s great news! My eldest granddaughter lives in Canberra.
It is.
I hope your granddaughter likes it here. It used to have an unfair reputation for being a stuffy, sleepy town.
She seems quite content.
We don’t see any orange busses in our area, Jude! I think all we see are school busses, LOL! Thanks for hosting, here’s my Sunday Stills post with pink and orange: https://secondwindleisure.com/2021/10/17/sunday-stills-the-pink-side-of-october/
Our busses are all yellow, red, blue or green with an occasional white thrown in, same goes for trains, so no, no orange transportation here. But I’m still playing along with something orange.
Plenty of other colour choices though!
What a wonderful bright and cheery colour for buses and trams! And so much easier to spot them coming if you’re going to have to sprint to catch one! 🙂
Haha… yes that’s true though it is a long time since I sprinted anywhere!
Me too….
They’re very attractive. We lived in Cleveland for many years and I never knew about this information. 🙂
I do like a ride on a tram. To answer your query above, Melbourne’s trams are mostly green and the old historic ones which run in the CBD are maroon. One of my recent square posts featured a lovely orange motorbike.
Thanks for the info Carol. I’ll scoot back and see if I can find the orange scooter.