2025 Meetings

Michael Roschlau & Yury Maller

October 24, 2025


One of Kolkata's iconic trams traveling through the city's central district. Photo by Michael Roschlau.

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Kolkata, India, its Trams and Many Other Fascinating Forms of Urban Transport


Tonight's program takes us to a major metropolis in one of the world's most populous countries that is being covered for the first time in an ERA program. Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) has a rich history of urban transport, as the first and last city in India with electric trams and also the first to build a modern subway. Discover the variety of transport modes, arguably the most diverse in the world - on rail, road and water; electric, diesel, animal and human powered.

Tonight's speaker/photographers are retired Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) President & CEO Michael Roschlau and 26-year NYC Transit subway schedule manager and ERA Board Director Yury Maller. Both have traveled widely throughout the world documenting developments in electric rail traction.

They promise a fascinating journey through this vibrant and cosmopolitan metropolis.

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