Sunday Greetings!

This week's reading takes me to the Kinki-Sharyo Type 7 light rail style of vehicles. Be sure to check the featured Week End Pickerupper Song. Wishing you all a great week! Prairie

In business since 1920 (as Tanaka Rolling Stock Works) and renamed The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd in 1945. They have produced the light rail vehicles used by a number of transportation agencies.
Kinki Sharyo is a listed stock on the Osaka and Tokyo Stock Exchanges. Pics from Wikipedia are in the public domain

New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark City Subway systems: Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...n_exchange_place.jpg



Other US clients include:
Boston's MBTA



Kinki-Sharyo Type 7 loading on Commonwealth Avenue at Boston University.



Kinki-Sharyo Type 7 3719, 28 January 2001 Huntington Avenue at Fenwood Road, Boston.

Two pictures above used under terms stipulated by:http://www.lrta.info/photos/photogall3.html (Edward Finglas)

More pics:




You tube watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ext_from=PL&index=24


California's Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Check this site for more pics):
http://www.streetcarmike.com/vta_kinkisharyo.html

Further clients:
Los Angeles' Metro
Phoenix's METRO Light Rail
Seattle's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail (Will begin carrying passengers in 2009.)


Japanese Company site:

http://www.kinkisharyo.co.jp/e...to/e_photo_30000.htm

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And now for the Week End Pickerupper Song: The violinist is great and the singer....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...BHb4&feature=related

(English Lyrics http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb410.html) :

In Aranjuez with your love
“…..
Maybe that love is hidden in one sunset
In the breeze or in the flower
Waiting for your return
….
In Aranjuez, my love
You and I

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Prairie,

I like the PCC'ish looking fronts on the Boston cars. At least it isn't in the usual modern "Dustbuster" styling.

Here's one of my favorites....

Two Type 7s, meeting at the Westbourne Terrace crossing,
on the C-Cleveland Circle Line. In my opinion, the most
scenic of the street-reservation lines.

Lee



Photo taken March 27, 2009

And 3 shots of Kinkis on the HBLR in Jersey City, taken June 16, 2008:


Southbound train snaking between Harborside Terminal and Exchange Place.



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On Hudson Street. Note the buildings on Ellis Island between the trees in right background.



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Southbound on Essex Street, with Lower Manhattan in the distance.




Enjoy,
Lee

Lee,

Thanks for posting those truly beautiful pictures Lee. I always enjoy all of your photos on the forum. You take great photos!

With much appreciation,

Prairie