North American Light Rail Information and News Site

What was new
at Light Rail Central
during 2000?
Updated January 21, 2001

Changes made to this site during the year 2000 are displayed on this page.
Changes made prior to 2000, are also available.

Additions/Revisions to the NEWS page are not listed.

12/30/00: Added Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall, to Vendor page.
12/24/00: Added 2 photos to Pittsburgh Photo page. Moved newslinks from main news page to other Year 2000 news page.
12/20/00: Updated Portland section of Projects page. Edited Hudson-Bergen Photo page. Added El Taller Colaborativo, P.C. to Vendors page.
12/18/00: Updated Portland section of Projects page. Edited Hudson-Bergen Photo page. Added El Taller Colaborativo, P.C. to Vendors page.
12/17/00: Updated terminology pages to add Frog at the request of FTA and NTSB employees. Also added R.B. (Acronym) Added several A through G terms to terminology page. Deleted US 36 Project from Projects page, as this section has been approved to be commuter rail.
12/10 - 12/15/00: Webmaster on business in Oklahoma City. Webpages not updated.
12/10 - 12/09/00: Updated Projects page.
12/6/00: Minor Editing of Webring Code on Main page.
12/03/00: Minor Editing of Projects page.
12/02/00: Minor Editing of Terminology and Projects page.
12/01/00: Minor Editing of North American List.
11/30/00: Replaced Portland Trackmap with updated one supplied by Christopher Lee. New map corrected a mistake on the Beaverton Central platform location. New map also features a more detailed drawing of the yard maps (including the original freight track that brought the first Type-1 vehicles into Ruby Junction. That has since been torn up so that's why there is an "end-point" of the track.) Although that portion of the track is still there it will most likely be removed soon to make way for the Ruby Junction expansion (to accomodate Interstate MAX vehicles). Updated Portland section of projects page.
11/28/00: Minor Editing of Portland Photo page. Minor HTML correction to Terminology Page. Updated Cincinnati information on Costs/Projects page.
11/27/00: Minor Editing of Boston Map page. Included comment that only the Green Line and the Mattapan branch of the Red Line is Light Rail.
11/25/00: Minor Editing of Portland Photo page. Deleted one photo and edited photo credits of another. Minor editing of Baltimore and Boston Photo pages.
11/13/00: Minor Editing of Costs/Projects Page.
11/10/00: Added Advanced Railway Concepts to Vendor Page. Updated Austin, TX information on Projects page based upon the failure of the tax initiative on the November 7th, 2000 ballot.
11/08/00: Updated Terminology page based upon input from comments from newsgroup and web users.
11/04/00: Updated Salt Lake City Information on Projects & Costs page. Added CH2M Hill and Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. to Vendors page. Added AFO Circuits to Terminology page. Edited Terminology page based upon input from newsgroup users. Deleted "unneccesary" HTML tags and logo borders on main photo page. Deleted "unneccesary" HTML tags from "What's New" and Definition page.
11/01/00: Added Grand Canyon to Projects & Costs page. Added Service Wire Company to Vendors page.
10/30/00: Major editing of Projects & Costs page.
10/29/00: Removed numerous "unneccesary" HTML tags from Main page to reduce load time. Performed minor format editing of Main page. Removed ALL links from THIS page for faster loading. Edited Portland Bombardier Vehicle Specification page (removed extra HTML code and reformatted). Re-formatted Credits page. Minor editing of Projects & Costs page.
10/27/00: Deleted several vendors from Vendor page.
10/25/00: Added "jump" links to Terminology page. Converted "What's NEW" page to HTML "descriptive list" format. Removed numerous links from What's New page for faster loading.
10/23/00: Uploaded a new Terminology page, which is the first HTML generated page within this site. Future site and page editing will be accomplished through the use of Notepad, Wordpad and WS_ftp in conjunction with SOME Frontpage editing.
10/21/00: Added Hanning & Kahl to the Vendor List Page. Re-formatted Terminology page. Edited image attributes on Vehicle Specs, Denver, Edmonton, Hudson-Bergen, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Airport Max, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, and San Francisco photo pages.
10/19/00: Minor editing of Boston MBTA photo page (corrected street name).
10/18/00: Edited image attributes on Main Page, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Calgary and Cleveland photo pages.
10/14/00: Minor editing of main page for easier reading. Added CosmoRail and Kiepe Elektrik to Vendors page. Reloaded North American List (file became corrupted during last upload).
10/08/00: Made changes to main page for easier loading. Decision to permanently change will be based upon input from web users.
10/07/00: Added link to Massachusetts page. Added link to mtamaryland site on Baltimore Map page.
10/02/00: Uploaded a corrected Portland map.
09/28/00: Ongoing corrections and additions to Terminology Page based upon feedback from industry employees. Added one photo to Edmonton page and two photos to Calgary photo page.
09/27/00: Minor corrections/additions to Calgary and Edmonton photo pages. Added many anchor tags to Terminology page for easy cross-referencing. Minor editing to Terminology Page. Added 3 new photos to the Edmonton photo page.
09/26/00: Added one photo to Edmonton photo page. Posted NEW Portland map (which includes the extensions) provided by Christopher Lee on Portland map Page.
09/16/00: Made minor formatting changes to Vendors page. Updated information on Edmonton photo Page.
09/15/00: Due to interest by web users ONLY, added link to New York's Airtrain on New York and North American Light Rail List Page.
09/14/00: Added SNC-Lavalin Inc. to Vendors page. Updated Portland's logo on several pages within this site to new logo supplied by Tri-Met.
09/13/00: Added DKS Associates to Vendors Page.
09/10/00: Consolidated List of Approved and Proposed Systems into one list on North American Light Rail List Page.
09/09/00: Added link to Kansas City Light Rail page and RapidTransit.com to North American Light Rail List.
09/04/00: Added two photos to Philadelphia photo page, sent by Stephen Ives.
09/03/00: Added Details of Proposed Kansas City Light Rail System to be voted on November 7th, 2000 to Light Rail Projects Page.
09/02/00: Made minor modification to Main page, to show pages within this site that are most accessed on the top. Modified Web Ring Code on Main page to allow the Web Ring Table to be centered when using Internet Explorer AND Netscape Communicator. Deleted reference to Denver's Southwest Extension on Light Rail Maps page. Added newly updated Denver System Map to Denver Map page. Updated Denver Information on Light Rail Projects Page. Made changes to Denver Photos page.
08/30/00: Linked to NEW San Diego Trolley page (within this site) with updated photos supplied by Andy Goddard, San Diego Trolley Safety Supervisor.
08/30/00: Updated Calgary information on Project and North American Light Rail List pages based upon e-mail from Calgary Transportation Project Office staff.
08/24/00: Minor editing of Ferraz Shawmut, Salt Lake City Photo, North American Light Rail List and Projects pages.
08/24/00: Minor editing of Calgary Photo and Credits pages.
08/23/00: Minor editing of Terminology page. Added photos and updated information on both the to the Edmonton and Calgary photo pages.
08/21/00: Deleted link on main page to 2000 Rail Rodeo pictures. Highlighted Rail~Volution link on main page.
08/19/00: Minor editing of Terminology page. Removed four photos from Portland page. Edited Maryland page to include link to recent BWI accident.
08/18/00: Added link to Puget Link Constructors on Vendors page. Added Railway Technology.com to link list. Made several edits on the North American Light Rail List. Edited Georgia page at the request of Chris Smith. Added Ferraz Shawmut to Vendor pages.
07/14 - 08/18/00: Lightrail.com webmaster on vacation (out of the country). No news articles posted or webpage updates made during this time.
07/11/00: Edited Terminology Page. Edited Los Angeles Track Map page. Edited Credits page. Minor format changes made to news page.
07/08/00: Added Kansas City to and performed minor editing on the North American Light Rail List.
07/07/00: Edited Siemens page at the request of Siemens Manager of Corporate Communication. Edited broken links on Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City pages.
07/06/00: Added 3 Baltimore photos posted by Peter G. Chase on alt.binaries.pictures.rail. Edited Terminology Page.
07/05/00: Added 8 Denver Photos sent to the webmaster by Matthew Huston.
07/04/00: Added Link to Rail~volution 2000 on main page (Since deleted).
06/27/00: Added link to the I-71 (Cincinnati) Corridor Light Rail Transit site.
06/27/00: Minor editing to the Credits page.
06/26/00: Added 4 photos to the Boston Photo page.
06/25/00: Minor editing of Terminology page.
06/24/00: Moved Links on Main page. Added six photos Cleveland's Waterfront Line system and cars. Added Pittsburgh Map. Added twelve photos to Pittsburgh Photo page. Added one photo to Toronto Photo page. Performed minor editing to Terminology page and Baltimore Photo page. Added five photos to Philadelphia Photo page.
06/23/00: Added Comstock and Carter & Burgess to Vendor List Page.
06/22/00: Replaced Ottawa-Carleton map with one of better quality at the suggestion of Kevin LeBlanc, an Ottawa area resident. Added two Pittsburgh photos that had been posted on the alt.binaries.pictures.rail newsgroup.
06/20/00: Added LTK Engineering to Vendors List. Added ONE photo to St. Louis photo page.
06/19/00: Posted fourty thumbnails of photos from the APTA 2000 Rail Rodeo held in St. Louis on the 2000 Rail Rodeo Photo Page (compliments of Garry Stanislaw). Photos have since been deleted from this site, yet are still available on request to the Lightrail.com Webmaster. Corrected Hudson-Bergen Map page credit.
06/17/00: Added Photo page for the APTA 2000 Rail Rodeo, held in Saint Louis. Edited main page to provide link to the 2000 APTA Rail Rodeo Photo Page. Photos have since been deleted from this site, yet are still available on request to the Lightrail.com Webmaster.
06/16/00: Added maps for San Jose's Tasman East and Vasona extensions to map page.
06/13/00: Added ALRV Car Spec Page. Added STV to Vendors page.
06/09/00: Added proposed Detroit Light Rail system specifications to Project Costs page.
06/07/00: Added definition of CBD to Terminology page. Updated Dallas map and added a Dallas 2025 map to Dallas Map & System Detail page. Added 11 photos of Portland's Airport Max construction, that were provided by Sandy D.
06/05/00: Replaced DART map from DART with DART map from Troy Mathis showing all approved and funded extensions. Consolidated all Dallas Extension. Information on Dallas Map & System Detail page. Edited Dallas Map & System Detail page. Added 3 photos of Tri-Met's cars in the downtown area to the Portland Photos page.
06/02/00: Added Spear Technologies to Vendors List.
06/01/00: Added Nashville, TN and Anchorage, Alaska to list of cities proposing light rail.
05/31/00: Edited Voith Turbo page.
05/30/00: Updated car spec information on Portland's SD-600A car. Added Voith Turbo to Vendors page.
05/25/00: Added link to Cincinnati's new I-71 website. Added map of Cincinnati's proposed I-71 alignment. Edited news page.
05/23/00: Added routing details for Camden, NJ system to Projects/Costs page.
05/22/00: Added two photos of Portland's Light Rail Control Center. Added DBOM section to Vendor page. Edited Vendor page.
05/18/00: Added Denver map showing existing system, Northeast and Southwest corridor alignments to map page. Added Chesapeake, VA is list of locations considering Light Rail, as voters approve allocation of funds for a Light Rail feasibility study.
05/16/00: Added Louisville, Kentucky map to map page. Added Louisville Details to Projects/Costs Page. Edited North American Light Rail List. Made minor change to format on news page.
05/14/00: Added Tacoma, WA map to Map page. Edited North American Light Rail List. Added 3 Hudson-Bergen Photos sent by anonymous web user to Hudson-Bergen photo page. Replaced Minneapolis-St. Paul map with one of better quality. Titled several Hudson Bergen Photos. Added Car Spec information about Portland's Bombardier Car. Edited Vendor Page.
05/13/00: Added photo to the Hudson-Bergen page. Updated North American Light Rail List.
05/11/00: Added Detroit to list of cities proposing to build a light rail system.
05/09/00: Added Camden, NJ project details to costs page.
05/07/00: Added Four new photos to the Hudson-Bergen page. Added Alcatel to Vendor List. Added one photo to San Francisco page.
05/05/00: Added photo of the Operator's Cab of the Hudson-Bergen Car. Added Maps of Saint Louis' existing system and Saint Claire extension.
05/03/00: Added photo to Salt Lake City Photo Page.
05/01/00: Added link to San Jose's Vasona Extension.
04/28/00: Edited North American Light Rail List. Combined San Jose's Tasman and Capitol Extensions and provided link to same.
04/27/00: Minor editing of North American Light Rail List based upon input from persons across the country.
04/26/00: Completed links from current systems on North American Light Rail List to operating authorities' websites. Updated Projects/Costs page to indicated known opening of all systems. Added San Jose's extensions. Replaced SF Muni map with a better one. Added Hudson-Bergen (and 2 other NJ projects) to the North American List.
04/25/00: Continued updating of the North American Light Rail List.
04/24/00: Added San Francisco Map, compliments of Abe VanElswyk. Provided NEW North American Light Rail List page.
04/20/00: Added Minneapolis (Hiawatha Project) map (compliments of MnDOT). Added Knorr Brake to Vendor page.
04/19/00: Updated Pandrol Vendor information. Changed San Jose map to a better quality map from Loren Petrich. Added to list on Details and Maps page. Added Sacramento Extension Map. Updated North Carolina and New Jersey pages.
04/18/00: Posted link to Denver's Train Driver Page.
04/17/00: Posted link to SF Muni's "Next Bus" webpage for the location of all LRVs in San Francisco (VERY COOL!). Added link to San Antonio Light Rail site. Updated Webring HTML code. Added title under newly posted photo on Denver Photo page.
04/16/00: Added Pandrol Information to Vendors Page. Performed minor editing to Credits page. Added one photo to Denver Photo page. Added an animated gif to main page for What's New Link. Increased number of weekday visitors to 450 per day (based upon Hitometer Statistics).
04/15/00: Added information link to Hampton Road Transit.
04/06/00: Added Basile Baumann Prost & Associates, Inc. to Vendors Page.
04/05/00: Added one link to San Jose Area Rail projects to California page and Newlands & Company Design Visualization to Vendors page.
04/03/00: Started work on System Specifications pages. Posted St. Louis System Spec page only. Linked from Projects/Costs and St. Louis photo pages. Organized Vendors page and added several vendors and links.
04/02/00: Added internal pages for ABB Daimler, Breda, Kawasaki and Nippon Sharyo.
04/01/00: Added several terms to Terminology page. Added Details of San Antonio's proposed light rail routing to map & details page.
03/31/00: Updated map for existing Denver system. Added maps for Denver's Southeast and Southwest Extensions. Added many links to the Colorado page. Restructured news page to allow more articles and faster loading. Added maps for Cleveland, Edmonton, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and San Francisco on map page.
03/30/00: Added Rail Transit Consultants to vendor page. Corrected verbiage on the Tri-Met photo page. Performed MAJOR editing of news page format to insure that ALL news articles will be available for longer time periods. Added San Antonio to map page. Added Hudson-Bergen specs on car specs page.
03/26/00: Added Calgary Map page. Verified all internal links. Checked all external links. Replaced map on Baltimore map page with a track map. Added 1 photo to Portland page. Replaced 4 photos on Pittsburgh page. Added 1 photo to Baltimore page.
03/25/00: Added individual pages, linked from the Vendors page, for Adtranz, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Bombardier, CAF, DE-Consult, Geneva Rock, HSQ, HTNB, Korve Engineering, Light Rail Consultants, Siemens, and Stone Consulting. Added many Map pages and maps (a few too many to list). Linked Map page from main page. Spent (too much) time working on Map pages. Added several photos to San Jose and Denver photo pages.
03/24/00: Added link to San Antonio's web site on Texas page. Added two Portland Extension maps to Map page.
03/23/00: Updated Terminology page.
03/22/00: Added link from New Jersey page to Hudson-Bergen 2000 site. Deleted Halifax as a possible lightrail system location (original information was based totally on rumor!).
03/21/00: Added Maps page (not yet linked from main page). Provided more links from Vendors page.
03/20/00: Added more vendor links. Added one additional information link regarding the Hudson-Bergen system. Added map of Baltimore's system. Added map of Austin's Proposed light rail line. Moved all Light Rail maps into one directory within the site, in anticipation of placing all maps on one page for viewing by web users.
03/19/00: Added link to a site showing an LA Blue Line Extension tour of the Mt. Washington area. Also added overview photo of the Pasadena Blue Line Extension. Added link to Urban Quality Indicators page.
03/15/00: Added information regarding Phoenix approval of Light Rail System.
03/14/00: Edited Terminology page.
03/13/00: Added link to Edmonton's new web page on the Canada page. Edited Terminology page.
03/12/00: Updated information about Edmonton's system on Edmonton and Projects/Costs pages.
03/11/00: Edited Terminology page.
03/06/00: Linked Hiawatha page from Minnesota page. Added information to Hiawatha page. Added link to official Minneapolis/St. Paul page from Minnesota page. Added linked Hiawatha Alignment and Track Page. Added 2 photos to San Diego page.
03/05/00: Added 5 additional photos from Boston. Posted cost info on Minneapolis/St. Paul Hiawatha Project on Projects page. Started work on separate Hiawatha page that will include available project dates and facts.
03/03/00: Added 2 photos from Boston (more to follow in a few days!).
03/02/00: Added 2 photos to the San Jose photo page.
02/28/00: Added Phoenix costs per mile to Project/Costs page.
02/26/00: Added and edited several items on terminology page.
02/24/00: Added link to Peter Jensen's Trams for Victoria to Canada Page.
02/20/00: Started the elimination of references to all systems not in North America. Deleted Asia, Australia, Central America, Middle East, and South America pages and all pages within those continents.
02/17/00: Made several deletions and modifications on the Credits page. Added CAF to the Vendors page. Reorganized Vendors page. Made changes to Connecticut page based upon information from Scott Allo indicating that the Griffin project has been abandoned.
02/16/00: Added additional cities of construction in Italy (since deleted). Added link to proposed system in Raleigh, North Carolina.
02/15/00: Updated some info on the San Jose page. Included the following statement on the main page: "Due to the time required for constant updating of this site, consideration is being given to focusing all the efforts of this website on the expansion of light rail in North America, with emphasis on the United States. Information and photos of systems outside of North America would be provided ONLY for purposes of displaying best practices for use in future North America extensions and systems. Comments regarding this change should be sent to the webmaster."
02/12/00: Corrected info on Utah Page.
01/29/00: Updated Number of stations to various Denver extensions on Costs Page. Added verbiage to Car Specs page to more accurately reflect that SF Muni does not use the exact same Boeing car as MBTA. Organized Denver Extensions on Colorado Page. Added link to Bangolore's new system (under construction).
01/27/00: Added Alstom link on vendors page.
01/17/00: Added link to Orange County's Centerline Project on California page, compliments of Brian Christoffersen.
01/16/00: Added T.O.R. to terminology page. Added link from New Jersey page to Why Light Rail shouldn't be built in Southern New Jersey. Added link to Blue Line Extension Map to California page. Added link to Worldwide Rail projects page on the World page. Added link to Baltimore Transit Archives on Maryland page.
01/14/00: Added photo to Baltimore page.
01/12/00: Added extensive information, provided by Charlie Kenneally, to MBTA's Boeing-Vertol, Type 7 and Type 8 Car Spec pages. Added information on possible LA Blue Line extension to Santa Monica to California page.
01/10/00: Added 3 vendors to the Light Rail Vendor page.
01/04/00: Made minor corrections to Hungary and Sweden pages (since deleted), compliments of Torsten Pedersen.
01/03/00: Added link to Pacific Northern Rail to Vendor Page. Separated out Denver Project Details onto it's own page, linked from the Costs/Projects page.

NOTE - To view a list of changes made prior to January 2000, click HERE.