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

[Fred Schneider]

Light Rail Now's web site is a good place to keep up with both  
current developments and "wet dreams."   There are no shortage of the  
latter.

The graphs you copied are typical in that the bottom of the graph is  
truncated so that it makes the gains and the drops seem far greater  
than they are.

On Aug 4, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> That's almost as funny as greasing the rails on a downgrade or  
> tying rope
> between the line poles and just below the "running wire" at four  
> hundred
> foot intervals (the latter was a stunt some college kids pulled in  
> Indiana
> seventy or eighty years ago.)
> Our Civis "trolley buses" in Las Vegas use an onboard diesel generator
> instead of overhead so we could have all sorts of fun next time you  
> visit.
> Please see the attached images. One shows the Civis as a trolley  
> bus. The
> other also  shows the Las Vegas version with diesel-electric power.
>
> To get back on topic, I wonder if anybody ever tricked a motorman  
> at the end
> of the Library line by throwing the switch  to force the car onto that
> center stub track?
>
>
> Oh, to get back on topic, I stumbled over this while looking for Civis
> images:
>
> http://www.lightrailnow.org/facts/fa_00005.htm
>
> K.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 3:47 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]End of a Street car line?
>
>
>> Wouldn't that make a wonderful college prank to go out in the middle
>> of the night and repaint the line on the street?
>
>
> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
> -- Type: image/jpeg
> -- Size: 45k (46160 bytes)
> -- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/ 
> tbus2083.jpg
>
>
> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
> -- Type: image/jpeg
> -- Size: 74k (76437 bytes)
> -- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/789px- 
> CAT_Irisbus_Civis.jpg
>
>
>