Great film. I've seen it before and did a little research. It seems that lots of the automobiles were specially hired for the film to make Market Street look modern and busy. Note that the same cars appear quite a few times.
Did you also notice that most of the automobiles are right hand drive? It appears that this was because in the early days of motoring, before most roads had a tarmac surface, drivers could get into cars without getting their shoes and trousers covered in mud. In later years, as road traffic increased, the driving position was moved to the left as it was safer.
You can see the restored film, without the 'film roll' faults here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc

It's diesel powered. Here's what I found. "A steam locomotive used to run throughout Matsuyama for 67 years from 1888. It is a diesel-powered street car restored in 2001. The townscape with the classical street car with steam from the smoke generator is sure to bring a sense of nostalgia."

Write a letter (not email) of complaint to the President and CEO of the company. I usually find that gets results.

Thanks for the photos. Will they fit in standard Rapido mountings?

In the Wikipedia link I just gave. "One example of the type, Southern Pacific 4294, is kept at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California. It is a 4-8-8-2 locomotive and is the only one to escape being scrapped."

"All of the cab-forwards were oil-burning locomotives..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_forward

There are several manufacturers of model 3rd rail equipment, such as ceramic insulators etc. Although they are primarily aimed at the UK modeller, the track is the of the same gauge and codes.  See this page for details of the components.
http://www.southernelectric.org.uk/modelling/mod4condrail.html

This page has a general guide with good close-up photos of how prototype third rail systems work. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russelliott/3rd-4th.html  Follow the link on that page to the New York City Subway Resources site for more info on the SIRT.

Some adventurous modellers even have a working third rail pick-up system.

Is there any more news about the new coupler?

It's a DCC decoder feature. Your controller needs to be able to operate CVs in the 127-140 range. I don't think this is possible with the E-Z Command, but the Dynamis could do it.
Here's a (rather complicated) guide on how it works. http://www.ontracks.co.uk/index.php?page=fromLibrary&guide=155

Yes, the new Hornby Sapphire decoder can do this. Don't know how easy it is to get in the USA.

I use the Labelle range of oils and ptfe grease, also greas-em graphite for my couplings. 3-in-one and WD-40 are definate no-no's.

According to a study by Coventry University, texting actually helps pupils with spelling and literacy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8468351.stm

Oh dear, I fell into the trap too. It should be 'professor of English', not English professor. 

If an English professor puts a comma before an 'and' what hope is there for the rest of us?

"Paul Budra, an English professor....."Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors.""

His whole sentence is ungrammatical as apostrophes are punctuation marks, or should that be tautologous? 

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...
 
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.