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Re: Metroliner question
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:12:04 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Calladine writes:
> Not wishing to sound pedantic but technically it's called a pantagraph. The
> catenary is actually the suspended wire above the railway which supplies
> power to the train.
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> Mark
I have no issues whatever with sounding pedantic. :-) It's "pantOgraph"..
and technically the catenary is the carrier wire, not the power wire. See my
glossary, referenced from the front page of this newsgroup.
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| (...) Not wishing to sound pedantic but technically it's called a pantagraph. The catenary is actually the suspended wire above the railway which supplies power to the train. Mark (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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