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

[John Swindler]

Steering column guide lines???  Been around for decades.  We had them in Chicago to help the drivers get a 40 ft. bus under the el structures, such as the Lincoln-Wells route.  Suspect they were also at right hand turns to help driver avoid ramming the rear tires into the curb.  
 
J
 
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:47:23 -0400> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > 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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