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12/30/99
Made corrections to Costs/Projects Page.

12/29/99
Added more information about Denver US395 extension to costs page.  Added link to China Iron & Steel Industry & Trade Group Corp to Vendors page.

12/27/99
Added link from California page to the official Pasadena Blue Line Extension page.  Added DMU to Terminology Page.   Re-formatted information on Light Rail Costs Page for easier reading.  Added link to Colorado's US 36 Study on Colorado Page.  Added extensive information to Costs page regarding costs of Denver's extensions.

12/25/99
Added link to Ottawa-Carleton Light Rail Project on Canada Page.  Added several Toronto links to Canada page.

12/24/99
Included information on Oceanside to Escondido, California LRT plans on news and California page.  Added ;ink to proposed systems in Charlotte, NC; Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH;Honolulu, Hawaii.  Edited link to Unofficial San Diego Trolley page.

12/21/99
Corrected broken internal link on carspecs page.  Added The Hague, Netherlands, and Nörrköping, Sweden (compliments of Torsten Pedersen) - (Note: All pages other than North America since deleted).

12/20/99
Deleted 2 articles on news page over 30 days old.  Added 2 articles to news page.

12/19/99
Added article on the news page regarding the Salt Lake City Grand Opening overloads.  Posted several photos on the UTA page from the Salt Lake City Grand Opening and several days after.

12/15/99
Added link to Deutsch Relays to Vendors page.

12/14/99
Added photos of Salt Lake City's Grand Opening to Salt Lake's UTA TRAX page.

12/11/99
Added link to Nice, France (since deleted from the site)and Volograd, Russia (since deleted from the site).  Checked links on Russia page (since deleted) and corrected a dead link to the Russian Railroad Page.   Added article regarding Ventek's failure to meet a deadline on the News page.  Added Ventek to vendors page.  Added definition of Light Rail from Jim Seamon to Definition page.

12/09/99
Added cost of Kenosha, Wisconsin's system to Costs page.

12/03/99
Added webring gif to main page.  Added info from Honolulu to News page. 

12/02/99
Added article regarding Portland Light Rail Safety to News page.

12/01/99
Updated Costs page to include a per mile figure.  Obtained cost of San Jose VTA's extension from ba.transportation newsgroup.  Linked all systems listed on the costs page to site with further information.  Added several companies to vendors page.

11/28/99
Linked from Hawaii page to new Kauai LRT proposal page (provided by Rudy Niederer).  Worked on formatting of all LRV Car Specs pages

11/27/99
Added appropriate backgrounds to all pages within this site linked to the main Photo page.

11/26/99
Linked to three NEW pages with car specifications: MBTA's Boeing-Vertol, MBTA's "Type 7" Kinki-Sharyo, and MBTA's "Type 8" Breda. Made many additions and corrections to the Terminology page. Dick Pascucci pointed out that the logo on the three listed MBTA pages had the Baltimore logos on them! (Problem corrected!). Added link to Trondheim, Norway, compliments of Norway's Lars Rekka. Added three photos to the Philadelphia page.

11/25/99
Link from main page to Costs page (which is STILL in the development stage). Provided photo link to Vendors, Costs and Light Rail News pages. Added normal and reverse to Terminology page.

11/24/99
Linked from main page to Vendors page (which had been "held back" for approx. 1 year). Deleted link to National Park Service information regarding Grand Canyon transportation system bid. Added photo of the MBTA Control Room and link from the Control Room photos to Union Switch & Signals site on MBTA page. Added verbiage on main page indicating that this site DOES not accept advertising

11/23/99
Added link to Portland's airport extension, courtesy of Bob Richardson. Linked costs page from main page.

11/22/99
Added two photos to Sacramento page. 

11/21/99
Placed RTD logo on Cleveland and Photos page. Worked on three more Car Spec pages from Boston (Boeing-Vertol, Type 7 and Type 8). Pages still under construction and review from contributors, and therefore not yet linked from the Car Specs page. Added link to New England Transportation Site on Massachusetts page.

11/20/99
Added two photos to Tunis page (since deleted from this site).  Deleted and added two photos to Pittsburgh page. 

11/19/99
Replaced Philly map with one of better quality at the request of the provider.  Added link to Hungary Tram Page on Hungary page(since deleted from the site). Replaced five photos on the Dallas page with newer ones provided by Glen Loyd. Added link to Jon's Boston Green Line page (link now broken) on Massachusetts page and link to Philadelphia Transportation page on the Pennsylvania page.. 

11/18/99
Labeled broken links on France, United Kingdom, Toronto, Trolley, Tunisia, and Virginia pages.  Repaired links on Denver and Pittsburgh pages. Added background to Brussels, Buffalo, Frankfurt, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Illinois, Massachusetts, Medellin, Pennsylvania, Saint Louis, Toronto, Tunisia and Washington D.C.pages. Posted two photos from Bill Waller (posted on newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.rail) on PAT page. Deleted 3 photos on PAT page.

11/16/99
Updated link from Arizona page to Central Phoenix/East Valley LRT project.

11/12/99
Added Alabama page and link to proposed Birmingham light rail system (complements of Fred Mobley).

11/10/99
Optimized images on main page for faster loading. Changed background for all car spec pages to a car spec background. Posted two photos from Bill Waller (posted on newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.rail) on PAT page. Added photo from Cincinnati Enquirer to St. Louis Page.

11/08/99
Corrected the name of the city in France on the France page (since deleted from the site) (formerly thought to be the city of Citadis) obtaining the Citadis Tram system to Valenciennes (which is the actual name of the city) and added Victoria, BC as a planned system on Canada page, thanks to Marshall Moore, of Oakland, CA.  Optimized and moved all logos into the directories (folders) of the individual light rail systems for better organization.  Deleted outdated construction photos of San Jose's Tasman West system

11/07/99
Updated Minnesota Page with new link received from Jim Seamon of Saint Louis. Added article from Jim Seamon to News Page.   Added link to ITSA on US page.  Added link to Fort Collins page AND new RTD map to the  Colorado page.  Added Light Rail Central background image to several pages that were lacking a background image.

11/02/99
Added link to Oregon Department of Transportation on Oregon page.   Added a bit more info to the Lightrail costs page (not yet linked).

11/01/99
Added newly acquired Denver logos "RTD" and "The Ride" to Photos page and Denver Page. Added link to Transportation USA on the Light Rail in the United States page. Started entering information into 3 new pages about MBTA's Boeing-Vertol, Kinki-Sharyo and Breda cars, however, pages not yet linked.

10/26/99
Added link to article about Austin Texas' plans for lightrail.

10/24/99
Added photo on Pittsburgh page from alt.binaries.pictures.rail newsgroup by Bill Waller. Changed verbiage on main page regarding RFQ for Grand Canyon Mass Transit System. Updated photos page. Optimized photos on and updated Portland, Salt Lake City and San Francisco pages.

10/22/99
Added link (on the Kentucky page) to an article on the possibility of Light Rail in Louisville, Kentucky. Added several systems to the Russia page (since deleted from this site) and one to the Latvia page (since deleted from the site), (compliments of Henri Hovi). Deleted LUAS (Dublin, Ireland), as the current system is a heavy rail system. Added information regarding the new LUAS Lightrail system.

10/21/99
Optimized photos on Depanne (since deleted from the site), Dublin, (since deleted from the site), Edmonton, Hong Kong (since deleted from the site), Hudson-Bergen, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh pages to provide faster loading and more site space. Added 4 photos on Pittsburgh page. Updated link to Baltimore, Maryland Lightrail (compliments of Matthew Huston). Corrected broken links on Antwerp (since deleted from the site), Belgium (since deleted from the site), California, Colorado, Columbia (since deleted from the site), Credits, Florida, Germany (since deleted from the site), Mexico, San Jose, Sydney (since deleted from the site), Texas, Trolley Links, United States, and Vendors page(s). Added link to news article regarding Cincinnati Light rail possibility and economic ramifications. Deleted several LARGE photos on Hong Kong page (since deleted from the site). Added Thailand page (since deleted from the site). Added link to Australia page (since deleted from the site).

10/19/99
Updated Credits page. Deleted APTA Photos Page and photos (Photos are still available on request). Optimized photos on Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland pages to provide faster loading. Deleted news article page linked Boston page, photos from Denver page. Added photos on Denver page.

10/18/99
Added link to International Railway Links on world page.

10/16/99
Changed verbiage on main page regarding Grand Canyon Light Rail RFQ based upon NPS page info.

10/14/99
Updated UTA page with two new photos and Grand Opening Date.

10/12/99
Added links to Railway-Technology pages: Brisbane (Australia), Citadis (France), Croydon (UK), Dallas, (Texas), Docklands, (UK), Dublin (Ireland), Grenoble, France), Karlsruhe and Koln (Germany), Manchester (UK), Manila (Philippines), Port Louis (Mauritius), Portland, Oregon), Strasbourg (France), Stuttgart (Germany), Sydney (Australia), and Turin (Italy). Added links to Bombardier pages: Cologne (Germany), Guadalajara (Mexico), London (Croydon and Docklands) (UK), Mexico City (Mexico), Nancy (France), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Vienna (Austria). Added UTA graphics for "What's New" button on main page.

10/11/99
Added link to Sydney, Australia's Light Rail Page provided by Greg Sutherland.

10/09/99
Updated Dublin page with link and information provided by Graham Bishop (since deleted). Updated page background.

10/08/99
Added link to Tallinn, the capital of Estonian to newly created Estonia (since deleted from this site) page. Link provided by Henri Hovi. Updated Europe page (since deleted from this site) to provide link to Estonia page. 

10/08/99
"What's New" page created.

10/07/99
Added link to Guadalajara system on Mexico page. Link provided by Ricardo Espinoza

10/07/99
Changed site counter to Hitometer to provide more accurate counts.(previously had used Fastcounter).

04/26/99
Attempted to acquire domain name of lightrail.org, however Curtis Stock, of Kansas City, MO acquired it the day prior, listing the billing contact as "Stock, Curtis This Domain 4 Sale". (Webmaster's note: This site is a NOT FOR PROFIT SITE and will therefore NOT purchase domain names from others for anything other than the Internic charges).

04/07/99
Acquired http://www.lightrail.net domain name, which was then pointed to this site.

10/02/98
Domain hosting transferred to Internet Communications ( "Okay, I admit it, it was to save a few bucks!") with miserable luck. Site was unavailable to web surfers for the entire time it was "pointed at" Internet Communications. Hosting switched back to Netcom as soon as I was able to get the information to Internic.

06/01/98
Site hosted by Netcom.

04/06/98
Placed first "counter" from Fastcounter on the main page.

12/01/97
First lightrail.com pages available on the web. Hosted by mtnweb.com, (a small local ISP no longer in business).

10/02/97
Acquired lightrail.com domain name.