April 2017 Additions:
- New city: Pittsburgh, PA with 168 photos (light rail & inclines)
- New City:Glasgow, UK with 78 photos (Subway)
- New City: Edinburgh, UK with 40 photos (Light Rail (trams) & bus)
- New City:: Manchester, UK with 32 photos (Light Rail (Metrolink))
- New City:: Sheffield, UK with 23 photos (Light Rail (Supertram))
- Added 120 transit photos to Seattle, WA (Light Rail, Commuter, Streetcar, Monorail)
- Updated Dayton, OH with 13 photos (Trolleybus)
WELCOME
Welcome to Ktransit.com, home of transportation photos from around the world. All photos on this website are owned and copyrighted by Mark Kavanagh. Mark has been around the world and his main passion is urban transit and railways. Commercial aircraft, cruise ships are also featured. To round this site, learn more about the Kavanagh family, both Mark’s family, and about the history of the Irish surname. There are other features of this website as well including the World trade Center in NY. Please enjoy!
Transit Photos
This is the heart of ktransit.com. This section features over 10,200 urban transit photos from 3 continents and over 100 cities. Not to be missed!
Railroad photos
Non-urban rail is also featured here. This includes, Amtrak, US freight, Europe mainline, Japan Shinkansen, trains stations from around the world, and more.
Transport Museums
This section features Railroad and transit museum, along with excursion railways from around the world
Farecards & Tokens
This section deals with fare media. This includes magnetic strip farecards, the more modern IC chip farecards, tradional tickets and old fashion tokens
AIRLINERS
There is something about commercial aircraft. Just like the railroads, they move people. Although flying may not what it used to be, there is still something about flying. Come see the world’s airlines here..
Cruise Ships/Ferries
Going a cruise is many people idea of a great relaxing vacation. Ferries on the other hand typically serve commuters going to work. They both move people
Travel Blog
This portion of the site is not updated often enough. Learn about Mark’s travels over the years. Facebook maybe a better method by looking thru his Facebook photo albums.
Kavanagh Family
Learn about Mark’s family, as well as a history lesson about the very Irish name of Kavanagh. All Kavanaghs, no matter how they spell it, can all trace their lineage to one person in the 1100’s…
World Trade Center
Mark grew-up in NY area, and went to the old WTC many times eofre 9/11, the last time was about 12 days before the fateful day. This section of the website is dedicated to the lives lost that day, and the re-birth of the the WTC site.
More
There are more things on this website, like Transit farecards and tokens, web links, and see recent site updates and what is in the queue for the future of ktransit.com
Facebook Posts
My newest project is in the infancy stage: Tourist By Transit. Learn more...
Welcome to my new FB page for my newest project, Tourist By Transit. The goal is to give you confidence to use transit will touring some of the best cities of the world. All based on my experience. Po...
I am working on an update to London. But it is going slow as I just came back from a trip to Tokyo and going thru all its photos. Tokyo will probably be the next update after London.
Added 3 UK Light Rail transit cities to ktransit.com. Edinburgh (Trams), Manchester (Metrolink), Sheffield (Supertram). find them at ktransit.com/transit/Europe/unitedkingdom.htm