[PRCo] Re: First outing for Rio 1758

[Ken and Tracie]

Other public misconceptions:

It's a trolley if it has a deck roof, whether it's electrically propelled, 
pulled by a cable or pulled by horses. A PCC and a trolley bus are the same 
thing, since they both look like GMC "Old Looks." The trolley pole hooks to 
the overhead wire, which pulls the car along the line. A trolley car is 
really called a cable car because it gets its power from overhead or feeder 
cables. Trolleys were replaced by buses because you could not run trolleys 
in the rain, since the rain touched the overhead and could electrocute 
people nearby. When NYC got rid of their streetcars, everybody else did, 
because everybody copies NYC. They aren't trolleys if they don't run on 
street trackage. The Rice-a- Roni people invented the trolley car in San 
Francisco.

Have you ever heard any of the above, Fred? I have.

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:47 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: First outing for Rio 1758


> To follow through with Dennis's statement, "Most of them do not even 
> realize there is a
> light rail system in Pittsburgh!"