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 Post subject: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:47 am 

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Location: Somewhere east of Prescott, AZ along the old Santa Fe "Prescott & Eastern"
Long story kept ridiculously short:

We are processing the estate of a late transit consultant, Lee Rogers.

Mr. Rogers was, to put it quite bluntly, the "Monorail Salesman" you see in the now-infamous (well, among people deriding high-speed-rail proposals, anyway) "Marge Vs. the Monorail" episode of The Simpsons. He was, among other things in transit, a salesman and consultant for Aeromovel, an air-pressure-propelled monorail system for which several prototypes were built (a theme park in Jakarta, a line in Sao Paulo, Brazil, etc.).

This estate has THOUSANDS (working rapidly to tens of thousands!) of color slides of the Aeromovel and other monorail and monorail-like transit systems being built and operated worldwide. Many of the photos are of technical details of construction, mechanical equipment, and operation. There are also photos (so far) of the system in Sao Paulo, as well as other such systems in Thailand and/or the Philippines, the (just-closed) Sydney TNT HarbourLink monorail shortly after opening; the monorail in Wuppertal, Germany; and other related subjects (including a visit to Starcross, South Devon, England, and a remaining pumping station of Brunel's 1840s atmospheric railway and the nearby Atmospheric Railway pub!).

The Maryland Rail Heritage Library feels this wealth of photos is outside its mission statement, and would like to find ANY worthy monorail-focused archive or collection that would be willing to accept these slides. You are warned in advance that these slides lack any useful identification other than processing dates on the slide mounts and chronological inventory numbers, and that identification of subjects is almost entirely by background context--knowing what systems one is looking at, your ability to discern Thai from Indonesian from Tagalog, Portuguese from Spanish, etc.

In addition, this guy photographed buses worldwide, including especially the wildly-decorated buses of these various island nations and "Third World" places. Indeed, he photographed every imaginable form of land transit--jitneys, rickshaws, motorcycle rickshaws, "cattle truck buses," taxis, you name it. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of these photos scattered willy-nilly throughout the estimated 200,000 slides we're dealing with. Anyone want them? Enough to pay for sorting and relocation?

Just to entertain you for having read this, here's a YouTube video clip featuring the Jakarta system and Mr. Rogers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM2Zxn7ybNQ


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 Post subject: Re: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 12:35 pm 

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I'd offer the collection to Roberto A. Sarmiento at the Transportation Library,
Northwestern University


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 Post subject: Re: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 12:37 pm 

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Try the Institute of Transportation Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/research-unit/institute-transportation-studies


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 Post subject: Re: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:15 pm 

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The monorail equivalent of RYPN can be found here:
http://www.monorails.org/

They may be interested and/or have suggestions.


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 Post subject: Re: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:21 am 

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North American bus items can be donated to the Motor Bus Society.

<http://www.motorbussociety.org/howtodonatetoMBS.pdf>


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 Post subject: Re: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:24 am 

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I would say that 98% of the buses I've seen so far are either foreign--European, Asian, African, South American--or trolleybuses, or both.


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 Post subject: Re: Any Monorail or Bus Archives Out There?
PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:52 pm 

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We DO have interest in Lee's archives.

Lee Rogers was one of a kind. An incredible human being that worked very hard for what he belived in without asking anything in return. Those who had the great opportunity to get to know him will tell you the same story.

A man of an impressive (and extensive) résumé. He visited more than 112 countries during his career. He was always passionate about contacting people of different cultures and, of course, learning and teaching ground transportation.

Sadly he passed away before the openning of Porto Alegre's Aeromovel by President Dilma Rousseff last year (an important Brazilian infrastructure work for the upcomming World Cup whose groundbreaking event he attended to). However, the new 15-km-long Aeromovel line that starts construction in Brazil next semester will have the main station (out of 25) named in his honor.

Diego Abs
Aeromovel Brasil S.A. company
abs@aeromovel.com.br


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