[PRCo] Re: Ugly Overhead Construction

[Ken & Tracie]

rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:

> And just within the last few years, Boston had to change all the Riverside line poles as the bases were rusted out because they were placed in the lineside drainage ditches. Now they have this U shaped support system like the Northeast Corridor.

Sooooooo, that's what happened....

Thanks for the update, Roger. And may the Mattapan-Ashmont High Speed Trolley Line be declared a historic monument like The Big Easy's St. Charles line and Muni's cable cars. That way, we can enjoy trolley pole operation, older equipment and proper tubular steel line poles with feeder cable on wooden crossarms for generations to come.
Heck, it might even become a tourist attraction like "Old Ironsides." :-)

Thank you, Derrick, for allowing this brief moment of "foaming."

K.