[PRCo] Re: Where are you?

[John Swindler]

Isn't Vancouver a steel-rail system using linear induction motors??

Was under the impression that Vancouver had the same technology as Toronto's 
Scarborough Line.

John (never been there)



>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Where are you?
>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:07:45 -0600
>
>Variations of the Skybus concept work well - and have since as long ago as
>1974 - at Dallas-Ft. Worth and Tampa Airports, and later at airports in
>Newark and Chicago.  These applications are basically horizontal elevators,
>using 1960's technology to transport stand-up riders less than three miles,
>to a few stops, without an operator.  Unfortunately, in Pittsburgh from 
>1963
>to around 1975, the small Skybus vehicles were promoted as an alternative 
>to
>higher capacity light rail over distances of 15 miles where trips of 45
>minutes required a higher degree of passenger comfort.
>
>By the 1990's in Vancouver, engineers had figured out how to combine a
>higher capacity, longer distance system with auomated operation.
>
>Bob 2/23/04
>
>-----------------------------
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:10 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Where are you?
>
>
> > Ed and others
> > Ed.  you are right.  Sky bus woirks well at many airports
> >
> > Tampa, Seattle, Orlando, Denver, Atlanta, Pgh,San Francisco, Frankfurt,
> > Miami
> >
> > and the downtown people mover in Miami (expanded several times)
> >
> > Westinghouse wanted Sky bus to create manufacturing jobs in Pgh.
> >
> > In fact they did.  Plant is in West Miflin.  Ownership went from
> > WElectric to
> > AEG Westinghouse to Adtrans to now Bombardier
> >
> > They did bring jobs to Pgh
> >
> > Harold Geissenheimer
> >
> > Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> >
> > >But it works thoroughly well at a variety of airports I've visited!
>RR
>
>

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