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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:20:55 GMT
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"Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:3B5E4219.79B21C2@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu...
> > > The best reason to build a caboose is because a caboose is a classic and
> > > romanticized part of trains. Everyone loves a caboose.
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> > But not outside the USA where we don't have them.
> You don't love cabooses? How weird. I suppose you hate trolleys too ;)
I didn't say I don't love them. They are a quaint design.
What I was pointing out is that outside of the USA they are not a classic and romaniticized part of trains.
Because we don't have them.
The guard's van that serves a similar purpose in the UK was never romaniticized as far as I know or considered a
classic.
And as for trolleys.
Well we have shopping trolleys in supermarkets (shopping cart?)
And we have (or had) trolley buses - these were electric powered passenger bus with overhead power supply - dont run on
rails (normal bus) , not considered part of train.
Though I see these were popular in the US as well - e.g. http://www.erha.org/latl.htm
Or did you mean trams?
Or something else entirely?
If it is a trolley bus, then I do love trolley buses.
Having lived in a couple of the last towns in the UK to run them (Walsall and Bournemouth). Are they still in Blackpool?
Damned fine quite, pollution free solution that was sacrificed in the name of 'progress'.
And now too expensive an infrastructure to resurrect.
Pity.
regards
lawrence
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Well, I may have good news for you Lawrence. My colleagues at work are now consulting over new 'Intermediate Modes' schemes for London (due to the huge success of Croydon Tramlink) and the result may be trolleybuses in Greenwich, Uxbridge Road (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I suspect the guards van doesn't have the same romaticism as the caboose because it wasn't so much a living quarters. Trains are also heavily romanticized in the US because of their role in developing the nation (we wouldn't be arguing about (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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| (...) Tram, There's a Tram less then a mile from were I live, and it has no over head power supply, and runs on 3 (yes 3) rail, the middle being a gear, to climb a steep grade (like 15% grade, or something). If Larry reads this he may know what i'm (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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