[PRCo] Re: Seattle Street Car Service

[Ken & Tracie]

I wonder if she was the same operator who abandoned a loaded trackless 
trolley on a major thoroughfare during rush hour after dewiring in the rain 
and deciding she wasn't up to rewiring the trolley pole in a downpour after 
two attempts?

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 7:16 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Seattle Street Car Service


>I rode it circa 2003 or 2004.   The conductor and motorman didn't
> want to go all the way to the end of the line.   They wanted a long
> smoke break.   When I pointed out that our automobile was parked at
> the end of the line and that is where we wanted to go, the conductor
> was visibly angry.   She snarled at me.   When we got there she
> looked at the two of us and said not to waste any time getting the
> hell off the car.   With people like her around, I really don't miss
> that service.   Or I surely don't miss the bitch.
>
> fws
>
> On Aug 9, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Jerry MATT Matsick wrote:
>
>> Sad day in Seattle, not Sleepness in Seattle
>> The Seattle Waterfront Streetcar service has been "suspended" since
>> November, 2005. The car house was demolished to may way for Olympic
>> Sculpture Park which opened in January of 2007. Buses painted in
>> the colors of the streetcars have been operating the service since
>> then.
>>
>> In spite of all sorts of pious uttering from Metro and the city
>> fathers that the streetcars are coming back, no money exists to
>> build a new car house. The cars are in dead storage at a Metro
>> facility. It has been reported that some of the track has been
>> paved over. No one is in a hurry to put the streetcars back.
>>
>> Seattle has inaugurated service on an expensive high-tech streetcar
>> line and it is all the rage now. The poor old Melbourne trams seem
>> to be forgotten. Most likely a new home awaits them or perhaps they
>> will molder away into sentimental junk in the back of a bus garage.
>> --
>> Jerry "Matt" Matsick
>> You don't stop laughing because
>> you grow old. You grow old
>> because you stop laughing from the
>> River City by the sea!
>> Jacksonville, Florida!
>>
>> -------------- Original message from Fred Schneider
>> <fwschneider at comcast.net>: --------------
>>
>>
>>> You have to watch this flick of Fast Freddy at work......
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ACh4mAEt8
>>>
>>
>>
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