Photo: Here be Sea Monsters
I always thought there was something strange about Port Phillip Bay… Source: fenmura/Tumblr – link no longer active
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Photo: You Are Here
Reflected Berlin U- and S-Bahn map. I like this photo a lot. Source: betonon/Tumblr
Historical Photo: Streetcars on an Inclined Railway, Cincinnati, 1904
Not a map, but included because this is possibly the strangest piece of transit infrastructure I’ve ever seen. Discovered while researching the post about Cincinnati’s abandoned subway, this photo shows what happened when that city’s streetcars met the steep hills surrounding the downtown area. At this time, the streetcars were used in conjunction with four of Cincinnati’s five inclined railways: the Mount Adams Incline, Mount Auburn Incline, Bellevue Incline, and the Fairview Incline. The cars […]
Photo: Boston Layers
An old Boston T map peeks out from underneath the broken remnants of a recent edition, somewhere along the Orange Line in May 2013. It’s interesting to see that while the two maps occupy the same physical space, their use of it is much different. The older, simpler map fills up its space with bold lines and large type, while the modern map is more geographically based and complex – with the addition of bus […]
Photo: Brio Train Set Transit Map
Submitted by gartenriese, who says: I found this on a wooden toy station from Brio. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to look up what transit network this is supposed to resemble. Transit Maps says: Well, this is just adorable. I doubt that it represents any real world transit system, but it looks like it has both trains and buses!
Photo: Handy-Dandy BART Map in a Pen
See also this pen map from Seoul, South Korea. Source: Wired Maps/Instagram
Transit “Map” Fare Card from Tbilisi, Georgia
transporteconomics: Having seen @transitmaps’ post with the Japanese travelcard reminded me to post the MetroMoney card I got in Tbilisi, Georgia. The drawings show different modes of transport available in the city (metro, bus, minibus (marshrutka)) and have absolutely no resemblance to the actual metro network, which consists of two lines. Figuring out all the labels is not too easy – if you happen to speak Georgian, share them in the comments below. However, I […]
Photo: Alexanderplatz
Tokyo Metro: Trains of the Passnet Companies Collectible Farecard
Not a transit map, but too darn cute to not share with you. From the same series of collectible Passnet cards as this nifty Tokyo Metro map, this card shows an adorably stylised train for each of the (22!) rail companies that participated in the Passnet program. Source: Rob Ketcherside/Flickr
Photo: This Is Not A Tube Map!
Although it seems as though at least one person thought it was… Source: Dave Gorman/Flickr