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- The 12.5-kilometre (7.8 mi) line runs between Mendoza and General Gutierrez in Maipú, on 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge double-track rail. The Metrotranvía of Mendoza serves the metropolitan area of Mendoza, which includes the departments of Las Heras, Central district, Godoy Cruz, Maipú and Luján de Cuyo. Service operates from 6:00 to 22:00. The line has been named the Línea Verde, or Green Line. The line operates on the right-hand side as its former U.S. light rail rolling stock is configured, in contrast to the left-handed operation of the majority of the Argentine railway network. ~Wikipedia
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April 22, 2019 will mark 10 years I have been upkeeping this TH-cam Channel: thank you so much for the support: I want to answer any questions you have, so please if you have any questions for me about transit or my travels or anything leave a comment in any of my videos or send me a message.
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I'm from San Diego and it's fun to see these cars running in another country after having served our area for 35+ years. Thanks for uploading this video.
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Had the pleasure of visiting Argentina a few years ago. After an all night bus ride from Buenos Aires I arrived in Mendoza. Beautiful city right beside the Andes. Great food and excellent wine. I missed the trams by a couple of years though.
Bonito metro ligero el de Mendoza. Saludos cordiales desde España para Argentina.
Miss the U2’s running in San Diego, California while growing up, loved the steps popping out when arriving at a station
Come to Argentina, take one and remember that beautiful moments! You are welcome
Another interesting watch would be to see their German cousins from Frankfurt (Which is where the U2 designation came from)
I’m glad San Diego was nice enough to donate their lrvs to other countries like mendoza in Argentina since they probably need them to transport passengers.
As someone who took the trolley for so many years in San Diego, this is bittersweet. But I'm glad they were given new life so that others could make use of them.
Mendoza bought 31 of San Diego's original cars plus 4 for parts sources. 36 are left in San Diego, reportedly at an equipment brokerage. Officials in Knoxville, Tennessee had ideas for a light rail line using 18 of the remaining San Diego cars, but Tennessee legislators filed a bill to prohibit any rail transit development in Knoxville.
N.b. one other car is at the Rockhill trolley museum in Pennsylvania.
Glad these San Diego cars are in Argentina
Nice video! Thank you for visit Mendoza and show to the world that beautiful lightrail still working!
This is awesome. Had no idea that these cars now have. 2nd life. Glad to see they still have the red paint too.
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In the comments 20th century some PCC type trolleys from American cities were sold to foreign countries like Mexico, Argentina, and Austria. Especially after World War 2 and the Korean War.
So beautiful. Nice verdant green flanking the street. Very orderly
Ex-Trolleys of San Diego. Me encantan
Both Edmonton and Calgary Alberta still operate this model of car, the Duewag U2.
Duewag U2 cars are/were also in use on the U-Bahn in Frankfurt, Germany.
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I thought those cars looked familiar! ;-) Congratulations Tim. Keep up the good work.
very nice video, Mendoza is amazing. Congrats for the 10 years channel
Hermoso video !!! Yo soy de argentina , pero de la ciudad de Rosario !!!😉👌 saludos !!!
Que hermoso Mendoza . Unico De Argentina para el mundoo
Estoy de acuedo con voz amiga !!!
Una provincia perfecta.
Very cool. We have the U2’s in Calgary, Canada as well. It’s fun and a bit surreal seeing them in Argentina.
El Metrotranvia la excelencia del transporte en toda su exprecion, eficiente rapido barato seguro
Excellent capture my friend 😍👏👏👏👏Greetings from Argentina 🙋♂️
Its interesting to see the sister of the Frankfurt U-Bahn U2 type trains still running.
Congrats on 10 years!! Best luck for the future!!
Four years I kept watch on these trolleys so no damage was done to them. Watched until they left the yard and on their way to Argentina. They deserve to finally be where people wont use them for criminal activity.
Thank you I just subscribed, liked and commented 🇨🇦💓🌍 it's great to be connected
I am from Frankfurt / Main. It is nice to see that the U2 trains now running in Mendoza. Here in Frankfurt you neraly won't see any trains running on U2 wagons anymore-
omg seeing these cars that I rode in the 80s 90s and 2000s it’s nostalgic these were the Blue Line Trains from Old Town to The San Ysidro border with Mexico now running in another Country, My question would be would some of the old graffiti from here still show on the Trains now in Mendoza….Hello From San Ysidro CA in the US
Well those trains look like the old underground trains in Frankfurt
Yes
They are. These are Frankfurt U2 Wagons.
Odd that some of them now have digital destination signs.
Duewag 😍🥰
That's interesting. They are the same type as the Frankfurt U2 cars with minor differences.
Not quite. Slight variation as the German cars are high floor and longer.
Well, the floor height is the same for all of these, it´s just that the german variation has folding steps for street access which aren´t in use when stopping at a high-floor station.
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The length of cars delivered to Frankfurt is 23.0 meters plus coupler (24.3 m or 80 ft).
In the beginning every car was equiped with fixed tread steps in order to operate at low platforms.
I agree!
Ha! U2 Wagen :D Nice
I smell transit!
We have a MTS San Diego train the nearby one is the orange line from Massachusetts avenue on the United States but we don't have that kind of crossing bill from Argentina to San Diego and we don't have a Argentina crossing like that we only have American style
Argentina runs its light rail and trains British style.
Looks so much like the Siemens Duewag U2 trains from Calgary and Frankfurt!
Ha! Thought I recognized the cars from the San Diego Trolley.
How did the San Dieago Trolley get there?
I'm a bit surprised that an Diego Transit let them have car 1001 (assuming they maintained the original car numbers). Since it was the first of the cars for the San Diego Trolley, I thought they might have kept that one for historical/museum reasons.
I think they were renumbered
The cars were renumbered. They still have #1001 at san Diego.
Mendoza 1001 is former 1071
Most like they renumbered them. 1071 they changed it to 1001. 1001 is actually still with MTS As a Historic Unit
Από το Σαν Ντιέγκο κατευθείαν στην Μεντόζα! Ούτε καν τα έβαψαν! Να πούμε όμως και την αλήθεια, απίστευτα γερά τα γερμανικά οχήματα. Όταν θέλουν οι Γερμανοί κάνουν πολύ καλή δουλειά... Το δίκτυο θέλει επειγόντως τους ανθρώπους του Σαν Ντιέγκο... Επίσης στην Μεντόζα τα οχήματα είναι - ευτυχώς - γεμάτα!
still have the mts color
At least they didn’t do something like add a low-floor section.
Adding a low-floor section the way Dallas did would not necessarily be a bad idea, and all of the track shown in the video was on flat terrain, so this should work fine, except that the acceleration would be a bit slow.
On another retrofit note, I noticed that at least car 1007 had digital destination signs, even though most of the cars had either fixed route signs or roll signs (couldn't tell which).
Also stumbled upon the fact that they have an electric trolleybus system which had some ex-Vancouver units for a while, although those are now out of service, and the system is down to just 1 line (after temporarily being at 0): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Mendoza.
Mendoza is a large city -- they really merit more electric service than just 1 light rail line and 1 trolleybus line.
The way these cars are built, they can't do that. Each section shares a bogie so if another section is added, they'd have to get 2 bogies which adds weight and has to work with the rest of the car's systems.
Rick Traveler Smith That's what Dallas (DART) actually did: th-cam.com/video/BWhVvjkq1ng/w-d-xo.html -- the 3 section, 4 bogie cars with the low-floor sections in the middle used to be 2 section(*), 3 bogie cars. Also see www.dart.org/factsheet/SLRV/ -- they said they were going to rebuild all 115 DART LRVs, but I don't know whether they actually finished with all of them. The Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DART_Light_Rail has photos of both pre-rebuild and post-rebuild DART LRVs, but unfortunately doesn't give much explanation, which is why I also posted the previous link.
(*) The center bogie may technically be an extremely short section like on MBTA Type 7 cars, but this is so much shorter than the center section on an MBTA Type 8 that it is not normally counted as a section, although it does have a small circle of associated floor inside. Not sure if the DART cars had exactly the same layout as an MBTA Type 7 before they were rebuilt as noted above, but since they were both Kinki-Sharyo products, it is a good chance (and even the USSLRVs, the predecessors of the Type 7s, had this feature).
The MBTA did not rebuild its Type 7s this way in part because cars rebuilt this way would have really severe trouble making it up the hills (especially on Commonwealth Avenue), since they do not have provision for traction motors in the center bogie and would not be easily modified to send power to the extra bogie (unlike a hypothetical new light rail vehicle built this way from the start). But the light rail lines both Dallas and Mendoza are really flat, so no problem in those places, other than somewhat worse acceleration.
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio I'm aware. Didn't need the entire Wikipedia article though.
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio and read the last lines of what i said again.
These are old Ligth Rail Cars U2 from Frankfurt Germany
They look so but they are from San Diego but they build by Duewag Germany
How many lrv’s did they buy off of San Diego?
Thought that was San Diego at first 😂😂😂😂
ni parece que anduviera en Mendoza mas bien a San Diego
during trial, it ran very fast, now why so slow..............?
2:25 Das ist wirklich Laut!
hola te corrijo a lujan de cuyo no va no esta echa la traza.
Ah the U2's i always hated them!
Wonder how they got em down here....
Most likely by sea.
Tii The Gemini RAIL, ROAD, & SEA
They probably ship them by boats when MTS donated them to Mendoza Argentina
Congratz on 10 years! As a fellow transit fan, I have a lot of respect for your channel, let alone the time that you put into capturing such varied systems from around the world. Keep up the great work!
It seems that Mendoza sure knows how to recycle transit infrastructure as our (Vancouver, Canada) system, TransLink, sent them our 1982/83-built trolley buses back in 2008 when we renewed the fleet:
buzzer.translink.ca/2008/10/retired-trolleys-set-sail-for-argentina
I'd love to see if they're still running out there, though I'm not holding my breath as they already had may miles on them at the time. I must say that I do love to see some of San Diego's trains have such a great retirement and evade the scrappers to live another day. I guess that my transit spotting eyes are better than I thought because as soon as I saw the thumbnail for this video, I knew that those red cars had to be from San Diego.
I did not see a single trolleybus in operation, I was quite disappointed. I have a video of old trolleybuses at a depot that I will post eventually: perhaps those are the trolleys you are referring to.
you can see both in a crossing test in this video : th-cam.com/video/iQyuUKVuUPA/w-d-xo.html
These cars sound very much like CTA'S 6000 SERIES L CARS FROM ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY AND THE HORNS SOUND THE SAME AS THOSE L CARS IN CHICAGO.
It's not wheelchair accessible?
There's a lift at 2 doors on opposing sides next to the cab that is operated for wheelchairs
MENDOZA , PROVINCIA ANTIFERROVIARIA ....
Ex-Trolleys of San Diego. Me encantan
Ex-Trolleys of San Diego. Me encantan