Good Morning, Everyone: Â The story on Detroit's last PCC car sent south to Mexico City came from ERA Headlights, November, 1956, page 2. Â And here's a DSR...
Thanks Ken for responding to the test photo. Frankly, I'm disappointed in this new feature Yahoo! added to the group's website this past Tuesday. When this...
IÂ wish I could tell you for sure. It looks like the route sign (although hard to make out in that photo) could read "Clairmount."Â IF that's the case, then...
Oops! my bad. The photo used in my last email was from the Stephen M. Scalzo collection, not the Volkmer collection as stated. ________________________________...
Hello group members! Check out this video clip I recently posted on YouTube. It first aired on WXYZ-TV Channel 7 back in October of 1979, during a segment...
ATTENTION GROUP MEMBERS AND ALL OTHERS: A two-minute "silent" black-and-white film clip, taken on Sunday, April 8, 1956 - the last day of streetcar operation...
As a passenger and former employee of D DOT i am amazed at the lack of intrest the road supervisors show on 8 mile runs. Recently a driver experienced some...
as a road supervisor, i have to disagree with you.the road supervisor is unware of the operator having a problem unless the operator flag him/her down or they...
Reminder from: DSR-2-DOT Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal DETROIT STREETCAR SERVICE ENDED ON THIS DATE IN 1956 Wednesday April 8, 2009 ...
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Apr 8, 2009 4:05 am
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ATTENTION MEMBERS AND ALL OTHERS: Today marks the 53rd Anniversary of the ending of street railway service in the city of Detroit. It was on this day,...
HELLO MEMBERS: I'm pleased to announce that the Detroit Transit History website has been recently granted permission to use photos from both the Jim...
Good Morning, Everyone:  Now, here are my first 2 new photographs. These are of all-electric PCCs 102 and 177. Both were built by St. Louis Car Company in...
PCC 102 was the FIRST of the DSR's allelectric PCC fleet (above and beyond the 100 & 101/141 airelectric two car samples). Also, I'd be curious as to WHERE...
James, thanks to Google Maps I was able to identify the location of car #177 in the second photo. As usual, the buildings in the background were great...
Reminder from: DSR-2-DOT Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal DETROIT'S LONGEST TRANSIT STRIKE BY CITY WORKERS BEGAN ON THIS DATE IN 1951 ...
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Apr 21, 2009 4:05 am
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Hmmm! Could the BRT style Gillig Diesel-Electric Hybrid coach be in DDOT's future?  That seems to be the impression given in the following PDF file posted...
Yes, we are getting 4 ===================== Posted through Grouply, the better way to access your Yahoo Groups like this one. http://www.grouply.com/?code=post...
ATTENTION: Members receiving group messages in the "Digest" version will have to click-on this message's "Title Subject Link" to view the photo images...
I hope you get the D40LFR(restyled version), they really do look much better. Here in Windsor(right across the river from you guys) we ordered 18 DE40LFRs(the...
Thanks Matt for sharing those photos along with the info. I remember when Windsor Transit ordered their hybrids sometime last year and that they were suppose...
No problem at all with the link, I have my site in the links page on DSR-2-DOT as well. In early may we should be getting another 6(at least), with the rest...
Caught on tape! Check out this link to a video showing a city bus driver texting on his cell photo while driving his bus and plows into traffic ahead....
Ever wonder what happens to DDOT buses after life at DDOT? Although most go to that transit bus graveyard in the sky, a few do see life with other properties....
Reminder from: DSR-2-DOT Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal GRAND RIVER STREETCAR LINE CONVERTED TO MOTOR BUSES ON THIS DATE IN 1947 ...
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May 5, 2009 4:06 am
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This Monday, May 11, 2009, launches National Transportation Week 2009 (May 11-17). A number of local transit agencies, including DDOT, SMART, SEMCOG, TRUÂ and...
OKay, let's try this again. It seems like my bulleted listing was completely ignored in that last message and everything just got jumbled together by the time...
Reminder from: DSR-2-DOT Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal THE D.S.R. BEGAN OPERATING ON THIS DATE IN 1922 Friday May 15, 2009 12:15 am...
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May 15, 2009 4:05 am
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While looking at the "Today in History" page for May 17Â of the "World.nycsubway.org" website, I came across 3 picture of a "railbus" taken by Doug Grotjahn...
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