Rochester's Subway - DVD Trailer

The End of the Line is a documentary on the history of the Rochester Subway. Now available on DVD with over 45 minutes of bonus features. Order your copy at www.AnimatusStudio.com/subway

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[pinkkimuovikani]

Nice Clip but it´s just trying to get you to buy the end of the line-dvd..

[mikeboas]

Right, didn't mean to mislead anyone. This is the trailer for the Rochester subway documentary -- I've changed the title to reflect that.

[dpjaexp]

@AllyBScot AMAZING! :-D

[AllyBScot]

@dpjaexp London had more track mileage but it wasn't a single system, different boroughs ran their own service. So yes Glasgow's was indeed the single biggest system. It covered all of glasgow & the neighbouring towns such as Paisley & Clydebank. over 200 miles of track!

[dpjaexp]

@AllyBScot Glasgow's was Britain's largest and densest, was it not AllyB?

[dpjaexp]

Now London has brought light rail back full force, and many North American cities are doing the same as it is the most efficient, most environmentally responsible, and most attractive way to convey large numbers of people through the dense shopping and residential cores of cities and towns, and out into the suburbs (which were all streecar suburbs at their origin).

[dpjaexp]

Respond to this video... London used to have an extensive network of double-decker trams and several routes ran through a tunnel in Central London referred to as the Kingsway Subway, long abandoned, but readily researchable on the Internet. Any tunnel beneath a city through which electric rail equipment operates is, in North America, a subway. There are two kinds: light rail, and heavy rail, which are high-platform, higher capacity lines powered by third rail or overhead catenary.

[dpjaexp]

@UglySean Boston's Green Line is partially in a subway, as are Philly's trolley system under Center City, San Francisco's Muni System in parts, and Newark's Light Rail system. North America's first subway was Boston's, running between Park Street and Arlington Street stations - streetcars in a tunnel. You are correct in identifying the motive power and its infrastructure as what are today referred to as 'Light Rail', however, from a rail perspective Rochester's system counted a subway system.

[UglySean]

So it wasn't a "subway" as many people know it but a "light rail" (streetcar) line. Subway as in a subterranean line perhaps but okay. It's an interesting story.

[dpjaexp]

@pinkkimuovikani Seriously? The people who made this documentary worked hard on it. Of course it costs money to see the whole thing. That covers all their production costs. And those that buy it and absorb its information are the richer for it.

[AllyBScot]

Looks like an interesting video. It was such a shame all these forms of transport were abandoned & everyone was forced into automobiles & the cities were choked! In my home town of Glasgow, Scotland there were once over 200 miles of tram (streetcar) tracks, but by 1962 they had all been ripped up! Still, at least we kept our subway line!

[MayaMeows]

I like the fact that Rochester is scuzzy. Its real, and the people here are really down to earth and generally good.