[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?

[Ken & Tracie]

I liked the "railfan" remark I received from a friend a few weeks ago 
concerning the French Civis trolley buses. It reflected a comment I made 
over a year ago:

"Milwaukee wishes to reintroduce trackless trolleys. However, these will be 
steered by "reading" a painted line upon the street surface.

"The Marmon-Herringtons and Pullman-Standards tossed upon the scrap heap in 
1965 seemed to get along very well with their 'primitive' steering wheels."

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?

> Machinery evolves over time, doesn't it.   (Retorical.)  We have gone
> from breaker point ignition systems to solid station ignition in cars
> and from carburetors to fuel injection but they are still gasoline
> burning behemoths.   Our trolley cars have gone from field weakening
> control to series-parallel control to series-parallel with field
> weakening for higher speeds to thrystor control to AC propulsion
> schemes but they are still trolley cars on steel wheels on steel
> rails.