Re: Brisbane trams, and "Windsplitters"

In a message dated 9 Sept 2001 @ 1325 PDT, "Bruce" <[email protected]>
wrote (responding to Bill Bolton):

Does that mean "petrol-electric"? Or was some equivalent to CNG or
LPG available then? Bruce

If my memory serves me correctly, at least one of the state rail
systems (VR or QR, maybe both?) imported a single McKeen gas-
electric cars here as part of early experiments with railcars for lightly
trafficed rural braches.

I was nearly right, but it was gas-mechanical, not a gas-
electric.

The writer here was referring to the American nomenclature for the vehicle.
Gas, of course, is what we Yanks call "petrol". CNG and LPG hadn't been
invented yet, to my knowledge. Ain't that a gas?

CNG is something some American transit systems are using to power their
buses. It's a pain in the [g]as...I hope Oz systems don't ever have to go
that route.

There are those in San Francisco who want to get Muni to go CNG. The only
problem is where do we fuel them and how much more running time do we have
to add with CNG buses. The pro-CNG-at-any-cost types don't have answers for
that one...

Milantram


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