[PRCo] Re: SF-Muni

[Ken & Tracie]

Oh, the LRVs were "sort of subway trains" to her.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:34 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: SF-Muni


> 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! ;-)
>
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> ----- 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
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>> 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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