This week, my reading took me to the Citadis Tram Cars and check the song of the week below. Have a wonderful week! Prairie

The Citadis is a low-floor tram built by Alstom. Used in 28 cities. Interesting feature of a live third rail under the tram itself...

Like most trams, Citadis vehicles are usually powered by overhead electric wires, but the trams in Bordeaux (and in the future Angers, Reims and Dubai) use the “Aps” (ground-level power supply), a third rail which is only powered while it is completely covered by a tram so that there is no risk of a person or animal coming into contact with a live rail. In outer areas, the trams switch to conventional overhead wires [6].

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom_Citadis#Tunisia (copyright terms satisfied with the mention of this link)

Poland:



France:



Argentina:



Dublin




The song for the week is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO395a-bFs4

Boy, Alstom just CLOBBERED that thing with an ugly stick.

Nice pics Prarie. Alstom definitely need somebody like Raymond Loewy on their payroll