Some things have changed

"The trams were running in Moscow, and they were as crowded as the London tube railway carriages at the evening hour during the war.  On every inch where a foothold could be maintained, both inside and out, people stood or clung." 
- from "Through Bolshevik Russia" by Mrs Ethel Snowden, 1920.

Trams have been running in Moscow since 1899.  Nowadays, they move about 200 million passengers across the city every year.  No one needs to cling to the outside of the tram as some had to in Ethel's day.

A blustery snowing day today with the weather forecast to dump a week's worth of snow in the next couple of days.