Brother E's Trains and Transit

By Eric

Brother E's Trains and Transit will be a series of podcasts dedicated to discussing issues related to urban mass & rapid transit in cities both in the United States and western Europe that the

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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.

Brother E's Trains and Transit episodes:

March 19, 2025 Why We Will Never Have It Made
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17min
March 17, 2025 Happy Birthday to my sister Robin & God Bless Ireland and the Irish People on this St. Patrick's Day
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3min
March 14, 2025 To Defy Fear is Not the Absence of Being Afraid
Fear is natural but allowing fear to control you is self-destructive.
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7min
February 21, 2025 Brother E Remembers Brother Malcolm
Remembering Malcolm X on the 60th Anniversary of his death.
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6min
February 19, 2025 Brother E's Trains and Transit: The PCC. The streetcar that saved street railways.
Introduced in 1935 the new streamlined Presidential Conference Committee (PCC) streetcar brought a new level of modern amenities and sophistication to street railway vehicles which staved off final elimination of this mode of public transit until a reassessment of their value led to them being revitalized and saved from total extinction.
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8min
February 19, 2025 Brother E's Transit and Trains: The Funicular/Inclined Plane
The Funicular/Inclined Plane is the most unusual of railroads insofar as instead of going from point to point it literally goes up and down the side of a hill.
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14min
February 18, 2025 Brother E's Trains and Transit: The Brooklyn Broadway EL disaster of February 14, 1888
Remembering the victims of the long-forgotten Brooklyn Broadway EL disaster of February 14, 1888.
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10min
February 18, 2025 Brother E's Trains and Transit: Why Most Cities Chose Not to Build an EL.
The main reasons most cities chose not to build an elevated railroad can be summed up in two words: cost and blight.
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16min
February 18, 2025 Brother E's Trains and Transit: A viable alternative to the horse and steam.
San Francisco's Andrew Hallidie invents the cable car.
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12min
February 18, 2025 Brother E's Trains and Transit: A Railroad on Stilts
The advent of the Elevated Railroad and its immediate impact on urban expansion.
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21min

FAQs about Brother E's Trains and Transit:

How many episodes does Brother E's Trains and Transit have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.