[PRCo] Re: NOLA Streetcars?

[Fred Schneider]

St Charles cars reported dry.   Canal cars under water allegedly up  
to the fareboxes.  I've been told that there have already been  
conversations with Brookville about rebuilding them but that seems  
awfully premature in a city that was not opened until today ... that  
might just turn out to be a railfan rumor.    I have seen copyrighted  
pictures of them since the waters went down illegally circulated on  
the internet.    I suspect first order of business is to borrow buses  
from somewhere else to go into business.   It was not a large  
system:  372 buses plus the streetcars ... the three parishes  
Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard have about 980,000 people.      
(PAT had over 1014 buses and the Census Bureau thought 1.3 million  
people lived in Allegheny County in 2004.)    Your guess is as good  
as mine how many people will come back and how many cars were flooded  
out and how many people will need buses that didn't because their  
cars don't work and how many stole their neighbor's car and so  
forth.   If I lived in an apartment or a rented home and I'd found a  
job somewhere else by now, I wouldn't go back to cry over a lifetime  
of lost photographs and books.

On Oct 1, 2005, at 8:42 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:

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>> Fred
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>     Any status of the New Orleans Street Cars?   Any of them  
> saved?   In light of the tragedy which I
>     know was terrible, putting that aside, as a Street Car buff,  
> just wondering?
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>     Jerry Matsick
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>> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> Date: 2005/10/01 Sat PM 08:32:20 EDT
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org,  Bruce Bente  
>> <bbente at cytechusa.com>,
>>         Bruce Wells <cuzinbruce at verizon.net>
>> Subject: [PRCo]
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>> The following was forwarded to be:  I'm simply passing on without
>> verification.   Assuming that the rail cars were dry, this may
>> indicate that power distribution facilities were either down or it is
>> much easier to worry about other things at the moment.     Fred
>> Schneider
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>> Subject: NORTA to Resume 4 transit routes
>> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:09:28 +0000
>> I copied today (10-1-05) the below from the NORTA website.  St.
>> Charles is the only line in the regular part of New Orleans, but will
>> use buses.  Gen de Gaulle & Algiers are across the Mississippi River
>> and Kenner is a western suburb.
>>     Bob Campbell
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>> RTA service will resume with four transit lines: 12-St. Charles,
>> 114-115-General de Gaulle, 108-Algiers Local, and 201-Kenner Loop.
>> 9-30-2005
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>> All four lines will run along the regular routes they used before
>> Hurricane Katrina, although 12-St. Charles will use buses instead of
>> streetcars until further notice.
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>> 201-Kenner Loop will follow the same schedule times as before the
>> hurricane. However, 12-St. Charles, 114-115-General de Gaulle, and
>> 108-Algiers Local will run only from 8 am to 6 pm, 7 days a week, in
>> keeping with the current Orleans Parish curfew hours. The last bus on
>> each line will start its trip from the end of the line well before 6
>> pm, and in a few cases before 5 pm, so that it can complete service
>> before the curfew takes effect.
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