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Re: Trolley line automation
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 02:58:25 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Williams writes:
> The street car was brought back into service about 4 years ago. It runs from
> downtown along Market Street to the Castro where it makes a reversing loop.
> I don't know what it does at the other end.
If you're talking about F line, I rode it from one end to the other,
changing cars several times by waiting for the next one at intermediate
stops (1). Fun ride, it's worth doing if you're in SF and it's cheap too.
It has reversing loops at both ends, Castro and Fisherman's Wharf district.
In both cases the loops are accomplished by going around a block rather than
just doing a reverse right there at the track end (no doubt due to space
considerations, they'd have to tear down buildings to make a reverse loop
that could handle PCCs. They turn a lot less tightly than euro standard
trams which are much narrower and are multiply articulated.
In addition to the PCCs they also have New Orleans cars running and some
other oddballs in storage awaiting refurbishment.
> It is powered from an overhead
> power source. The electric buses also use a similar source.
Difference being they use two poles because they don't have the return path
in the trackage available to them.
1 - so I could sample all the cars and get pics of the various PCC liveries,
I *do* have a PCC model I flog, after all
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