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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:08:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
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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.
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> 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?
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 talking about i think it was there the last time he was
here for the MTU reunion thing.
Josh
> Or something else entirely?
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> 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.
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> regards
> lawrence
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| (...) We don't use the term tram for anything at all in the US, IIRC. The conveyance Josh is referring to runs down Quincy hill from the Quincy Mine to the MTU classroom mine (yes, it's a mine that has classrooms and labs where you get to drill in (...) (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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