Despite the painful fact that the T3s still make 99 % of the tram fleet in Liberec after so many years, there's nothing like the calming sound of a T3 running up that hill in the distance while you're lying in bed trying to fall asleep.

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

I can imagine 💀💀

@fanOfMinecraft-UAs_channel

2 ай бұрын

Isn't the sound made by old type rails and not old time trams? TatraT4 ( which I think is similar to T3) when I saw it as service vehicle, didn't make any noises, additional to the "old track on cobbled streets" (my least favourite tram sound, mainly heard when you ride any tram through city centre, but is heard a bit from outside too) Some newer trams, mostly TatraKT4SU also make stupid cooling sound, so T4 isn't even the worst sounding tram

3:13 Eminem's been real quiet since this dropped

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHA that wasn't even intentional

I recall a milling machine where I worked made by Skoda; It was simple, tough, and held tolerances very well, it was easy to repair. Glad to get to visit Praha, a beautiful place with lots of trams, and learn how clever the Czechs were, and to learn their previously unknown history.

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

We have a saying in Czech: "zlaté české ručičky", which roughly translates to "golden Czech hands", because of the longevity and quality some of our products have

@Pidalin

7 ай бұрын

machines made in Czechoslovakia are the best, we still use plenty of them in wood factory, even when there is some modern made in italy machine next to it, people still prefer to work on those old machines because it's just better even after 40+ years

@NickBurman

3 ай бұрын

I did my secondary education in a technical school which had some milling machines by TOZ Celakovice - OK, not Czech as such but Slovak rather, made loong ago when the two countries were still the same. By the time I came to use them they must have been about 30 to 40 years old but were still precise and absurdly robust. One could ask it to mill some pretty deep passes in one go and the machine would mill them to the correct dimension, never mind that it was audibly complaining and vibrating on its base!

Lets remember the german Version of the T3D, which were to wide for some citys, so the T3 got slimer and were called T4D. Which originally where exclusivly for eastern dresden. Also the B3 and B4 cars started in germany :D

Im happy that you mention that T2 was still operating in Liberec around 2018 A btw, still are in use, line 1 on public holidays and as christmas line is usually T2

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

Oh, cool! I have actually ridden the T2 in Prague when the tram line to Dědina opened, it's quite the machine, but still, the T3 is the best

Ey, cmon. The T1, that spurred the whole lime of TX Tatrsa trams, was based on the PCC streetcar, for which the license was procured from the states. So they all are basically revisions of a 1930s design(which is even funnier, considering the polish or soviet deep modernisations that went all the way until early 2000s)

Nice, to see this docu about a great tram.

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Really interesting video! Unfortunately I've never ridden Tatra T3 or even seen it in person lol Guess I have to plan a trip to Prague!

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

do it! and make sure to ride the excellent public transport!

I grew up in Belgrade which never operated T3s but had, and still has, a sizable fleet of KT4s. Those colorful plastic seats are the same and despite looks are actually comfortable. More comfortable than those in more modern trams..

@TheTramly

5 ай бұрын

I agree that the old Czechoslovak Tatra trams are just timeless classics, absolute workhorses

@fanOfMinecraft-UAs_channel

2 ай бұрын

Idk what are seats in your modern trams are made of But I don't think so, I prefer KT4D, as German version has seats like the bus ones

Finally video about T3

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked the video

In Bucharest we have the T4R variants. Still very reliable, but the society of public transportation wants to retire them, to make place for the newer ones. Such a shame....

@TheTramly

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Czechoslovak Tatra trams are basically indestructible, haha it's quite a shame they're getting retired..

Hurrah for the Czechs!! Off topic, the Czechs made some of the best stuff in the Eastern Bloc but could never modernise because product was always -stolen- bought at cheap price by the Soviets leading to no profits for reinvestment in newer products.

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

very real, it was quite unlucky that the demarcation line in 1945 stopped at Plzeň and not at Prague

@czechdeph

6 ай бұрын

More than that: Soviets didn't want modern products. Their request was: sell us the already proved concept. So our industry being in majority exploited by SU was stuck in 60s. And when the SU market had collapsed in 90s, no other customers were willing to buy a 'museum' products.

It's always sad for a Czech person to see in what condition they have T3 trams in Russia or in Ukraine.

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, the T3s in Russia and Ukraine are.... not great, to say the least

Thats pretty interesting. As far as I know we don't have these in Poznań but we have the RT6 tatras. I didn't know that Skoda is based here, seems like we are quite the tram manufacturing hub, with also the city-owned modertrans manufacturer being here. There's also the FPS factory but I don't think they made a tram in a while.

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

Poland is one of the few exceptions, where they built their own teams instead of using T3s and other Tatra models, but still, interesting!

@TheTramly

7 ай бұрын

Oh and one more thing - Škoda Transportation isn't based in Poznan, but in Plzeň, I probably just spoke too fast or not clearly enough 💀💀💀

@szymex22

7 ай бұрын

@@TheTramly oh lmao it sounded exactly like Poznań

The T3 is realistically the second most successful tram in the world. First place is taken by the KTM-5.