[PRCo] Fwd: Valparaiso, Chile - Trolley bus - current videos

[Schneider Fred]

Thought you guys might like this because of the Cleveland stuff from  
the late 1940s or early 1950s.   Unfortunately I think that Herb  
Brannon no longer has e-mail capability.
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> From: "Peter Folger" <transitman at maine.rr.com>
> Date: September 9, 2008 11:17:11 PM EDT
> To: "Peter Folger" <transitman at maine.rr.com>
> Subject: Valparaiso, Chile - Trolley bus  - current videos
>
> Valparaiso, Chile - Trolley bus - current videos
>
> Also includes Jasper Wood's, Cleveland Streetcar films both - parts  
> 1 & 2 below that, as well as his son's lectures on them.
> Hello all:
>
> From the very bottom of my heart I have always felt that the  
> Trolley Bus ( trackless trolley, trolley coach ) was the most  
> environmentally friendly vehicle on routes that carried a  
> significant amount of passengers but were not yet up to light rail  
> standards.  Unfortunately most of the world has thought otherwise  
> for about the past 50 years.
>
> Where they are loved they are appreciated as well and one of those  
> most tenuous of situations has been in Valparaiso, Chile.
>
> The City or the operator, (?) wished to be rid of them some time  
> ago and the locals fought back.  It is a perplexingly strange story  
> due to both the language difference and the lack of any truly  
> authoritative statements from the local authorities or in the local  
> press.  Officially they were to be gone yet they still live on as  
> evidenced here on YouTube, and it is most interesting to see the  
> 1950's built, Worcester, MA., Pullman coaches most similar to those  
> that ran in Boston and other cities, still marching along:
>
> VALPARAISO CHILE TROLLEYBUSES 2008
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGhmM_xIXlM
>
> Chile - Valparaiso Ascensores.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rat-dopOQc&feature=related
>
> Jasper Wood - Cleveland 1.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qnPxzhFWw
>
> Jasper Wood - Cleveland 2.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CdQb7yH2xY
>
> Streetcar Lecture: Christopher Wood on Jasper Wood pt. 1.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnsBbkZuFB4
>
> Streetcar Lecture: Christopher Wood on Jasper Wood pt. 2.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNCdzCoD0Xk
>
> Peter Folger
> P. O. Box 1741
> Biddeford, ME 04005-1741
> 207-283-8902 or 207-590-8340
> transitman at maine.rr.com
>