Re: Brisbane trams, and "Windsplitters"

Note for everyone who does not live in Oz. "Bush" = one funny looking
tree with hardly any leaves every 100 yards or so + one "house"
(sorry "home") every 10 miles. Couldn't resist that one - but you
have to see it - it is quite beautiful!
Bruce

-- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit" <isedit@g...> wrote:

Actually, Peter, I live in the bush and keep a fire burning all

winter.

I said that Brisbane tram had a front end like a wood splitter.

It's shape

is a dead ringer for the one I use every day.

Bob Murphy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter D. Ehrlich" <norcalrr@s...>
To: "TramsDownUnder" <TramsDownUnder@y...>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 4:53 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Brisbane trams, and "Windsplitters"

Hi, gang!

In a recent discussion about Brisbane's FM trams, some of us

commented on

how it looks like a "wind-splitter", and I mentioned that it

looked like a

Hall-Scott "windsplitter" gas motor car introduced on some

American

railroads in the 1910s.

The name of the company who built these was McKeen, not Hall-

Scott. I

apologize for the error. I will try to rustle up a picture of

one, just

to

show you all how bizarre it looked...

Milantram





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