[PRCo] Re: First outing for Rio 1758

[Fred Schneider]

No, but nothing the public says surprises me anymore.   Remember we have "No Child Left Behind."    We also had college kids in the 1960s telling the university presidents what was relevant and those educators were retarded enough to listen; today we have the second generation of those kids in our schools teaching our kids.    You really do not want to get me started Ken.   

fws

On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:

> 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!" 
> 
>