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

[John Swindler]

This will allow a consultant and a sole-source vendor to raid the federal treasury.  It will also allow the two provious mentioned entities to make the appropriate and necessary campaign contributions. 
 
To bring it back to Pittsburgh, can anyone spell maglev????
 
J
 
 
> From: ktjosephson at embarqmail.com> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:45:56 -0700> > 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. > > 
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