CanalStreetCar/NOSRA Update

Perley A. Thomas streetcar 962, running on the Riverfront segment of the Canal line.

A bit of an update as to what's going on with CanalStreetCar (dot com) and the New Orleans Street Railway Association.

First of all, welcome to everyone who has made their way here because they saw Angus Lind's piece in Da Paper! Thanks for stopping by, please join the CanalStreetCar (dot com) mailing list, which is returning to production this week.

It's been a wild beginning of 2008 for me personally. I've been traveling again, teaching computer classes for Hitachi Data Systems. (Take a look here for a description of the sort of stuff I teach.) Being out of town during the week for the classes has slowed down progress on developing the nonprofit, and the project is further behind than I'd like it to be. Still, I'm committed to getting it moving and we'll press forward.

If you've arrived at CanalStreetCar (dot com) by going to nosra.org, you'll see that the regular NOSRA server is currently down. It suffered a hard disk failure and needs to be rebuilt. I plan on doing that in a week and a half when I'm home long enough to do that properly. Some links to photos in the NOSRA wiki won't work properly until that's repaired.

In the meantime, both sites will point to CanalStreetCar (dot com). I'll have more thoughts on where both CanalStreetCar and NOSRA are going on this site in the next few days.