RE: Observations from the United States

Y'all come, y' hear.

At 08:31 PM 8/6/2002, you wrote:

Gidday guys! I have applied for funding to make a study tour to the western
US and Texas late next year, specifically to study light rail, heritage
tramways and related aspects of public transport of relevance to Wellington.
So - if successful in my application - I hope to make contact with y'all as
I pass through.

If I don't get funding I will stick to Melbourne and Hong Kong, using my own
resources!

Brent Efford
(Wellington, New Zealand)

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Ross [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2002 7:30 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Observations from the United States


I don't want to be categorized as a Yank since where I come from them is
fighting words. I, sir, am a TEXAN. And we also have a W2 in operation
here in Big D. And I do have a full page on the trams from Oz on my web
site and am now working on Sydney with all the others done. If anyone has
additional information to add to the captions I would appreciate it.

At 12:37 PM 8/6/2002, you wrote:

(OK Paul, you asked for it...)

Likewise, I post here from time to time. I Have a vested interest in

Melbourne

trams because Seattle (where I live) was one of the earliest -- if not THE
earliest -- American cities to operate W2s as a part of their regular

transit

system, i.e., not a touristy or heritage type operation. In fact just last
week
I bought fifth edition of Destination City to keep up to date (as much as

that

can be considered "current."
...
Also, as long as I'm posting at the moment, I'd been wanting to ask if one

of

you ozzies would post a concise explanation of the events that took place

when

MMTB was privatised, the reasons and results. Thanks so much, guys.
...
Another neat little project for our stateside members would be a short list

of

Australian and NZ cities currently operating trams, lrvs, museums and/or
heritage lines. Thanks again.
...
That oughta keep you guys out of mischief for a while [lol] ;-)

At 10:01 AM 8/6/02 , you wrote:

So, Paul, you don't consider me a "genuine Yank"?

Herman

"pn1.rm" wrote:

Wonder if some of our American readers might make an occasional
posting on this list?
Would be good to see some observations of our little colonial
outputs "down under" from the Greatest Nation in the World.
And it would be nice one day to see a genuine Yank coming to see our
TramsDownUnder.
Paul in Melbourne

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Obfuscation specialist

Don Ross
Irving, Texas
[email protected]


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