[PRCo] Re: SF-Muni

[Ken & Tracie]

My wife's cousin visited San Francisco a few years back. She described the 
Muni cable cars as "little cabooses that travel up the hills without a 
train." She saw PCCs, trolley coaches and motor coaches as all being buses, 
because "trolley cars" had to have a deck roof (or "monitor top", as she 
called them.)

K.

P.S.- Yes, she's blonde! ;-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Holland" <prcopcc at p-r-co.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:11 PM
Subject: [PRCo] SF-Muni


> When I was on the TrolleyCars back in the 1970s,  Delay  was the
> 'Operative'  (oxymoron)  Word.       I finally got so tired of the
> question of:       "Why the Delay?"     that I answered by saying I
> parked at the curb on Market and Van Ness and had lunch in Zim's!!
> .
> One guy got on my  PCC  one day and asked why the buses were
> delayed.       My response:       "Are they delayed, too?"       I was
> being honest  --  my sister, a Very Non-Technical person,  N-E-V-E-R
> calls a TrolleyCar a  ({[bus]})    ----    N-E-V-E-R!~!~!~!       Took
> me Quite A While to get used to the TrolleyCars being called  ({[beeses]})
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> Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> GPS so that the motorman can't take it home to lunch? <BG> Is this a
>> new dispatching system so the car's whereabouts are known constantly?
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