[PRCo] Re: New LRVs/Testing on Drake

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!



> Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> In San Francisco at Muni when I was GM:

	A--L--L    SF--Muni  surface wire, except Market Street, is
operable with  BOTH  pantograph and trolley pole.     The
extension to Fisherman's Wharf has not been certified for
pantograph and merchants don't want those behomths out that way,
but only minor additions are necessary to make it compatible.    
Installation of Embarcadero lrv way to CalTrain was constructed
for both pantograph and trolley pole although pole equipped cars
have not operated there as yet except for possibly a test.


> From: Boris Cefer <boris6 at volny.cz>
> Sent: Jan 19, 2004 6:24 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: New LRVs/Testing on Drake

> Would be probably problem to operate the car (4001)
> with pole under the new pantograph-type overhead.
> Insulators, wire tension points etc.     But as you
> can see in the attached picture, all is possible
> with some amount of fantasy....

http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/Trolley%20operation.jpg


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Jim

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