Re: Re: Melbourne Historic Fleet - thoughts
Herman R. Silbiger
Sunday, December 2, 2001 6:39 PM
One option that does not seem to have been discussed
is to equip the W2s with pantographs, like the Peter
Witts and other historic vehicles in Milan. While
perhaps not historically accurate, it would remove the
reqquirement that the overhead wiring be comaptible
with trolleys.
--- Greg King <[email protected]> wrote:
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Agreed, the other interesting thing is, Milano, with a
system of similar car<BR>
mix and just now receiving low floor cars, has done
very well with<BR>
conventional equipment so, just cause it's old,
does'nt mean it's<BR>
inefficient, look at the reliability of the cars on
the Muni F line compared<BR>
to there super new cars, what about it Peter???<BR>
Greg<BR>
<BR>
> And the upshot of this mentality is that a great
tram system with a<BR>
> wonderful tramway heritage has no heritage
operations - and no<BR>
> tramway museum or museum tramway within 80km (or
whatever the<BR>
> distance is). Very sad and not a great credit to
anyone concerned.<BR>
><BR>
> --- In TramsDownUnder@y..., Bill Bolton
<billbolton@c...> wrote:<BR>
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is to equip the W2s with pantographs, like the Peter
Witts and other historic vehicles in Milan. While
perhaps not historically accurate, it would remove the
reqquirement that the overhead wiring be comaptible
with trolleys.
--- Greg King <[email protected]> wrote:
<HR>
<html><body>
<tt>
Agreed, the other interesting thing is, Milano, with a
system of similar car<BR>
mix and just now receiving low floor cars, has done
very well with<BR>
conventional equipment so, just cause it's old,
does'nt mean it's<BR>
inefficient, look at the reliability of the cars on
the Muni F line compared<BR>
to there super new cars, what about it Peter???<BR>
Greg<BR>
<BR>
> And the upshot of this mentality is that a great
tram system with a<BR>
> wonderful tramway heritage has no heritage
operations - and no<BR>
> tramway museum or museum tramway within 80km (or
whatever the<BR>
> distance is). Very sad and not a great credit to
anyone concerned.<BR>
><BR>
> --- In TramsDownUnder@y..., Bill Bolton
<billbolton@c...> wrote:<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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