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["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Os station, 1902 (Norway): http://www.gaiatrafikk.no/imageArchive/hist_pic_0b.jpg

Reading Terminal, Philadelphia: http://www.library.phila.gov/pix/trolleys/atroll07.jpg
[1900- a train every hour to New York, also trains to Toronto]

Willow Grove Trolley (PRT) Station, 1905 (Philadelphia): http://www.library.phila.gov/pix/trolleys/atrl2114.jpg

 Funicular station, Bergen, Norway the station is called Sentrum, it is close to the fish market, and Bryggen, Bergen's harbor.. The ivy has been removed in the recent restoration, the name of the area where the base terminal is  Vetrlidsallmenningen : 
http://members.tripod.com/~nadia4000/bergenteleferikstation.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/fotoalbum-bilde2-stor.html
http://www.gonorway.no/go/passage_tours/images/floeibanen.jpg
http://hjemmesider.gs.bergen.hl.no/~k7a53/Teltturen/floibanen.JPG
http://www.funiculars.net/pic/102-20.jpg
Bergen is the "capital of the fjords," the "Gateway to the Fjords."
There are five stations on the Fløibanen:  Sentrum, Proms gate, Fjellveien, Skansemyren, Fløien  It has a 26 to 49% gradient, an electric powered cable. 844 meters long.
The Fløibanen (opened 1918) in operation (the first one is actually breathtaking I think.):
http://www.frimerkehuset.no/fh/lager/19411.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/img/bilde-navn-stort.jpg
http://www.funiculars.net/pic/no_stamp_floibanen_1994.jpg
http://www.fboller.de/norwegen/fotos/02_b_3floien.htm
http://www.touristphoto.no/images/BERGEN%20B/S65_FLOI6.jpg
http://trikkogbane.info/bilder/floi.jpg
http://www.sjov-fritid.dk/floei.jpg
http://www.tourist-magazine.no/web/images/vest/floibanen.jpg
1938: http://www.havebaneremisen.dk/floi1.jpg
http://www.telenor.no/privat/produkter/samleservice/grafikk/2000/Dummies/dN178.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/bilde-historikk-lite02.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/bilde-historikk-lite03.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/fotoalbum-bilde6-stor.html
A "meet": http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/bilde-historikk-stort.jpg
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~kahogan/Scandanavia/floibanen.jpg
http://www.bruvoll-camping.no/images/attraksjoner/floibanen.jpg
http://www.norphoto.com/r/images1/norphoto8141.jpg
http://www.funiculars.net/pic/102-23.jpg
http://home.no.net/trygjor/bilder024/bergenfloibanen1.jpg
http://nora.hd.uib.no/allc/floybane.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/img/bilde-forside.jpg
http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/bilde-historikk-lite04.jpg
http://home.no.net/trygjor/bilder024/bergenfloibanen2.jpg
Mount Fløyen station at the top terminal (Mount Fløien) 320 meters above sea level., 302 meters from bottom of line.: http://www.w3com.de/uwe.logemann/assets/images/hurtigruten/floeibanen.jpg
http://laurent.dervaux.free.fr/Floibanen.jpg
http://www.funiculars.net/pic/102-21.jpg
The 3rd generation cable cars from 1974, the new ones began 2002.
Here are the original cars 1918-1954: http://www.floibanen.no/eng/img/bilde-historikk-lite01.jpg
The two new cars were named Rødhette ("Little Red Riding Hood" and "Blåmann ("Blue Man"...each new car carries 100 passengers, the old ones 80...
tunnel view: http://home.no.net/trygjor/bilder024/bergenfloibanen3.jpg
http://home.no.net/trygjor/bilder024/bergenfloibanen4.jpg
Here is a map: http://www.funiculars.net/kartor/no_bergen.jpg
The only funicular railway in Scandinavia...
It takes 5 to 6 minutes to travel the 844 meters; you can download a detailed timetable from this page, which is part of the Fløibanen AS official site. The logo is neat, and only a small fraction of the above may be repeated there.: http://www.floibanen.no/eng/rutetabell.html
  Bergen also has a "heritage tram" {Museumsporvei): http://trikkogbane.info/bilder/museum.jpg
[300 meter line run by museum, streetcars ceasing 40 in 1965 in Bergen]
  Bergen trolleybus route 2 is the only remaining trolleybus network in northern Europe:
http://tramandmetro.info/en-bergentrolley.html  Maybe I'll move there.
  Bergens Tidende is Norway's largest newspaper; the mountains surrounding Bergen are the Byfjellene mountains

Oslo railroad station shed:
http://members.tripod.com/~nadia4000/trainstationoslo.jpg
There is a large controversy in Oslo because in the pursuit of improved streetcar service, many tram routes have been abandoned the rails paved over and replaced by buses,  angering much of the public.  Here is a shot of the saved (five hours before it was to be paved over) Homansby line, a streetcar headed for Disen, in front of a way too elegant McDonald's!: 
http://trikkogbane.info/bilder/homansby.jpg





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