What's New in 2001
at Light Rail Central
Changes made to this site during 2001 are displayed on
this page. 2000 and 1999 are also available.
- 12/26/01
- Added 39 photos to
San Diego page.
- 12/25/01
- Added 13 photos to
San Diego page. Posted updated map on Calgary Map Page.
- 12/20/01
- Deleted reference to MBTA operating Breda cars.
- 12/15/01
- Changed link to Cleveland's RTA to proper URL. Added new St. Louis map.
- 11/20/01
- Added Ottawa Photo page.
- 11/10/01
- Added 6 photos to San Diego page.
- 10/08/01
- Added Traction Motor Service to Vendor page.
- 10/07/01
- Added Reveal html code to index and news page(s).
- 09/26/01
- Added Transdyn Controls to Vendors List.
- 09/11/01
- Added Meister to Vendors List.
- 08/24/01
- Added photo of new Minneapolis LRV to Minneapolis photo page.
- 08/16/01
- Moved all 2001 News Articles dated June 30th and earlier to archived page.
- 08/14/01
- Added photos of the "Big Dig" in Boston to the
Boston Photo page. Changed number of St. Louis LRVs from 41 to 65.
- 08/13/01
- Deleted UTA photos. Page will not be linked until Spring 2002.
- 08/12/01
- Added three photos to
Portland Streetcar. Added DART 2010 map to
Dallas Map page.
- 08/11/01
- Added three photos to
Portland Streetcar and
Portland Airport MAX photo pages.
Added
Kansas City Map
to Map page.
- 08/9/01
- Added link to
Charlotte, NC LRT system to
Map page.
- 08/3/01
- Added Breda to Vendors page.
- 08/1/01
- Added GPS generated map to San Jose map page.
- 07/31/01
- Minor editing of Main Page. Added R-Tie to Vendor List.
- 07/30/01
- Rendering of Hiawatha Corridor 38th Street Station posted on
Hiawatha Project Photo page. Added proper photo of SD-100 to car spec page.
- 07/29/01
- Added Minneapolis Construction photos to
Minneapolis Photo Page. Added photos of the new SD-100's to
Salt Lake City Photo Page.
- 07/28/01
- Changed html code to allow all news articles (starting with July 27th) to open in a new window.
- 07/27/01
- Added Siemens to Vendors List.
- 07/24/01
- Added Harmer Steel Company to Vendors List.
- 07/8/01
- Corrected link to San Diego Trolley on
San Diego Photo page.
- 07/6/01
- Corrected link to sbay.transportation and added
ADA Requirements for Light Rail Vehicles and Systems on
North America Light Rail Systems page.
- 07/2/01
- Added link to Pasadena Blue Line (now Orange Line to Projects Page.
- 06/21/01
- Added link to Tucson's proposed Light Rail system website on
Arizona page. Updated Denver map.
- 06/19/01
- Deleted webmaster's name from main and credits page. Moved news from the first quarter of 2001 to a new page.
- 06/17/01
- Lightrail.ca pointed at main page.
- 06/16/01
- Minor update on Salt Lake City Photos page.
- 06/12/01
- Added one photo to Baltimore photo page.
- 06/11/01
- Deleted link to Site Statistics.
- 06/9/01
- Changed cost of Phoenix project based upon recent news reports.
- 06/8/01
- Added RTR Technologies
to the Vendors page. Added Edmonton South LRT website to
Projects page.
- 06/5/01
- Added 3 photos to Saint Louis Photo page.
- 06/4/01
- Added 11 photos to Saint Louis Photo page.
- 06/3/01
- Minor editing of html on San Diego photo page.
- 06/1/01
- Minor editing of St. Louis photo page.
- 05/31/01
- Minor editing of the html on the
Philadelphia photo page. Deleted broken link from Portland photo page.
- 05/30/01
- Minor editing of the
Denver photo page.
- 05/28/01
- Added Transportation Technology Center, Inc. to Vendors page. Minor editing of html and added 17 photos to the
Denver photo page. Minor editing of html on Terminology and Projects Page.
- 05/26/01
- Edited list of Toronto LRV lines on Projects page.
- 05/25/01
- Added 23 photos of Saint Louis Extension operning on May 4, 2001. These photos are posted on the Saint Louis Photo Page. Added locations on Projects page to insert news articles. Webmaster will begin placing links to related news articles on the projects pages also. Added Greenville, SC to list of LRT projects after being informed by a news reporter.
- 05/24/01
- Added Wilbur Smith Associates to the
Vendors page.
- 05/23/01
- Added several photos from the Saint Louis Extension to the
Saint Louis photo page.
- 05/21/01
- Minor editing of Canada page to delete broken link. Added
Railway Preservation Resources to Vendors page.
- 05/19/01
- Added Toronto to Projects Page.
- 05/15/01
- Added link to Huitt-Zollars to Vendors page. Minor editing to Projects page.
- 05/13/01
- Added link to Tampa's Proposed Light Rail Project. deleted "e" from Saint Clair Extension on St. Louis page. Chnaged "St. Louis" to "Saint Louis" on photo page.
- 05/11/01
- Deleted one news article from news page regarding Sound's Transit's "concealment" of LRT costs when Seattle Post-Intelligencer retracted the story stating it was false information.
- 05/9/01
- Edited map page
. Added Houston map to map page.
- 05/8/01
- Edited Map and North American List page.
- 05/7/01
- Deleted system specification information from Salt Lake City page(s) until after the 2002 Olympics. Edited SD-100 car spec page.
- 04/24 - 5/06/01
- Webmaster on a business trip to Salt Lake City and Denver and toured the systems in both cities.
- 04/7 - 4/23/01
- Webmaster on vacation (on a Panama Cruise). Site maintained by Ron Sutch (a lightrail enthusiast from the San Diego area).
- 04/5/01
- Deleted 3 photos on the St. Louis photo page at the request of the photographer.
- 04/2/01
- Added link to newly created Site Statistics page.
- 03/30/01
- Posted 7 additional photos on the
Boston photo page.
- 03/28/01
- Repaired links from news page prior to January 2001. Added several photos to Boston photo page.
- 03/23/01
- Added one photo to the
Houston, TX page.
- 03/22/01
- Edited the
Hudson-Bergen System map.
- 03/21/01
- Added Six photos to the
Houston Photo page from the Metro site. Photos sent by Brad Rampp.
- 03/19/01
- Added Six photos to the
Portland Steetcar page. Added 3 photos of the St. Claire Extension to the
St. Louis Photo page.
- 03/18/01
- Added information about Houston LRT system contractors to
Projects Page. Added a
Houston Photo page to
the Lightrail.com site. More photos from Houston will be provided when available.
- 03/17/01
- Added 5 photos to
Boston photo page, downloaded from newsgroups.
- 03/16/01
- Added Wilson, Ihrig & Associates, Inc. to the
Vendors webpage.
- 03/14/01
- Added 3 photos and 1 map to
St. Louis Photo page. Added 32 photos of San Jose's Kinki-Sharyo car on a
"yet-to-be linked
webpage.
- 03/14/01
- Added 7 photos to
St. Louis Photo page.
- 03/13/01
- Minor editing to Projects page.
- 03/12/01
- Added Westin, Inc. to
Vendors page. Added 5 photos to
Boston photo page.
- 03/10/01
- Updated Projects page with
information about Houston's success and Orange County's failure. Added link
from Florida page. Added 3 photos of new Kinki-Sharyo cars to
San Jose Photo
page.
- 03/06/01
- Added
Remote Control Systems, Inc. to
Vendors page.
- 03/05/01
- Website hosting changed from Earthlink to
Intellengine for purposes of reliability and
speed.
- 03/02/01
- Minor editing of Projects page. Added Hudson-Bergen system to
Projects page.
- 03/01/01
- Minor editing of html on Hudson-Bergen Photo page.
- 02/28/01
- Added various Pittsburgh and Sacramento projects to the
Projects page. Edited info on Grand
Canyon project.
- 02/27/01
- Added Ottawa to
Projects page.
- 02/25/01
- Performed minor editing of HTML and some content of the Edmonton Photo page.
- 02/24/01
- Performed MAJOR editing of Projects
page to include an updated status of all North American Light Rail projects. Minor
editing of the Los Angeles Photo page.
- 02/23/01
- Re-posted all Houston Chronicle articles from main new page to "point" to article posted
on the Houston Chronicle sserver.
- 02/21/01
- Removed all Houston Chronicle articles from new pages at the request of
Houston Chronicle staff.
- 02/18/01
- Added Railroad Data and Railroad Information Links.
- 02/10/01
- Edited Hudson Bergen Car Spec pages. Added 2 photos to Toronto Photos page.
Edited html on Denver Photo page.
- 02/07/01 - 02/18/01
- Moving pages to Intellengine server.
- 02/04/01
- Edited Portland Photo page and new Streetcar Page.
- 02/03/01
- Added one picture to Cleveland page and 3 pictures to St. Louis page.
Updated some errors on Projects page. Added a new Portland Streetcar page w/14 photos
of the new streetcars.
- 02/03/01
- Added one picture to Cleveland page and 3 pictures to St. Louis page.
Updated some errors on Projects page. Added 14 photos of Portland's new
Streetcars.
- 01/31/01
- Added Quebec, P.Q to List of Cities proposing LRT.
- 01/27/01
- Edited HTML in Denver Projects page.
- 01/22/01
- Added GE Harris Harmon Control and Information to Vendors page.
- 01/20/01
- Added new Hiawatha Project map (Minneapolis/St. Paul).
- 01/20/01
- Deleted Cleveland map. Added new Ottawa map.
- 01/16/01
- Added new Calgary Map (Including Extensions).
- 01/02/01
- Major editing of HTML code on Terminology page.
2000 Changes
1999 Changes