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

[Fred Schneider]

Wouldn't that make a wonderful college prank to go out in the middle  
of the night and repaint the line on the street?

On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> 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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