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Re: Trolley line automation
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:25:15 GMT
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I guess I am going to show my age here. In Los Angeles, in the forties, the
trolleys had a pole on both ends and the conductor simply pulled one down
and raised the other. He then sat in the seat at the other end of the car
and went the opposite way. In San Francisco they use turntables for the
Cable Cars.
--
Bob Fay
rfay@we.mediaone.net
The Shop
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7900/
"John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message
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| (...) Same here in Melbourne (Aus), up till a few years ago when the last of the "W" class trams (which had a pole either end) were retired from service. It's a bit hard to automate this on a Lego layout, but maybe not impossible. You have to worry (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) If I may.... the reason is the pantograph pole-- if the trolley simply reverses, the pole would be pointed in the wrong direction. We toyed with ideas about flipping it back and forth, but nothing really seemed to work out. A double loop (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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