[PRCo] Ultra low floor cars

[Schneider Fred]

There is a thread going on right on on the East Penn Traction Club  
web site on modeling light rail vehicles.  One guy, who makes models  
is trying to tell us there is no market for light rail cars, and he  
is being barraged with e-mails from people telling him there is a  
market and all sorts of links to European companies who also make them.

Someone posted the link below on the East Penn site.

At any rate, Wikipedia, the on line encyclopedia which has all sorts  
of wierd stuff has all sorts of streetcar entries too.

If you think the Pittsburgh low-floor cars were low ... take a look  
at this link to the newest cars in Vienna.   The floor is only 7  
inches off the ground.   That's not much more than the length of  
those Ticonderoga #2 pencils they used to dole out to us in  
school.    How do they do it?  Like an automobile with separate  
axles.   The wheels are in boxes under the seats.   Very tiny motors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Low_Floor

By the way guys ... you want to know about a meet that overwhelmed  
everyone?  Yesterday there were two meets going on at once at the new  
Philadelphia convention center along route 422 at Oaks, west of King  
of Prussia and east of Phoenixville.   Traffic was so bad that the  
state police closed the exits off route 422 leading to the convention  
center so that you could not go there.   Talk about great planning.    
There were two conventions at once ...  a railroad show and a gun  
show.   Who are the craziest people?   Railfans with guns maybe?