Re: Re: One day in 1963
IS Edit
Sunday, October 14, 2001 4:54 AM
Peter,
I programmed myself to lower the back pole first even if the interior lights
were out and people wanted to get on. It's the only way for me to make sure.
Even so there were a few incidents but I never went that far.
Glad you made it without mishap.
I never pulled down overhead though I broke a few span wires.
Once I threw a pole at speed with a PCC in San Francisco and damaged the
pole. So I put it on the hook, put up the front pole and during that
interval the rear pole sagged down and earthed out on the metal roof and the
overhead started smoking and then vaporised in a big plume of smoke. About
200 yards of copper wire ended up in little droplets on the street.
Bob Murphy
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Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 12:39 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: One day in 1963
hard,just drifting,talk about lucky,I could have done some real damage.I
could not believe it when I got down to punch the clock.I just pulled
quietly pulled the pole down and snuck it under the hook,TramsDownUnder is
my confessional,don't think I've admitted to this before.As a tram driver
only thing worse you can do is a rear-on or a side on.My copy book remained
un-blotted.Regards to all,P.Bruce.--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit"
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I programmed myself to lower the back pole first even if the interior lights
were out and people wanted to get on. It's the only way for me to make sure.
Even so there were a few incidents but I never went that far.
Glad you made it without mishap.
I never pulled down overhead though I broke a few span wires.
Once I threw a pole at speed with a PCC in San Francisco and damaged the
pole. So I put it on the hook, put up the front pole and during that
interval the rear pole sagged down and earthed out on the metal roof and the
overhead started smoking and then vaporised in a big plume of smoke. About
200 yards of copper wire ended up in little droplets on the street.
Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 12:39 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: One day in 1963
Murph,I once went from West Preston all the way to the clock at VictoriaParade in Brunswick St. with both poles up,at night,so I wasn't going
hard,just drifting,talk about lucky,I could have done some real damage.I
could not believe it when I got down to punch the clock.I just pulled
quietly pulled the pole down and snuck it under the hook,TramsDownUnder is
my confessional,don't think I've admitted to this before.As a tram driver
only thing worse you can do is a rear-on or a side on.My copy book remained
un-blotted.Regards to all,P.Bruce.--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit"
<isedit@g...> wrote:
streetscape for context and a bunch of passengers, even a trammie. Nice.What a great shot, Graeme. All the car details you would want and
But...
Two poles up!
Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----
From: Graeme Bennett
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] One day in 1963
On the way to England I happened to be passing Mossely Square.
WGB
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