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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:10:48 GMT
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Lawrence Wilkes wrote:
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> "Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:3B5E4219.79B21C2@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu...
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> > > > 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.
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> > You don't love cabooses? How weird. I suppose you hate trolleys too ;)
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> 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.
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 what to call a huge LEGO gathering on the
west coast if we had never had trains, so those west coasters should
make sure they have plenty of trains at their fest in honor...:-) :-)
:-)
> And as for trolleys.
> Well we have shopping trolleys in supermarkets (shopping cart?)
Yup, shoping cart in the US.
> 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
And trolley buses still operate in Boston (I'm curious, is there any
city which has a greater variety of mass transit systems? About the only
thing Boston doesn't have is a monorail [though they also don't have
Chicago style interurban, though the Budliners were close, also no
hydrofoil, and no high speed electric rail, no bullet train, and
traditional trolleys are no longer operated]).
> Or did you mean trams?
I think so. In the US, a trolley is a passenger vehicle which runs on
rails, usually operated as a single unit train.
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Frank Filz
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| "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3B5EC557.6488@m...ing.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Philadelphia probably has the same variety of transit options that Boston has. They still have those goofy electric SEPTA busses (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Sydney has (in rough order of actual usefulness): conventional bus, heavy rail (suburban and interurban trains), ferries (various conventional and catamarans), light rail (trams recently re-established on the outskirts of the CBD), and a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| "Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:3B5E4219.79B21C...ane.edu... (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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