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Re: Metroliner question
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:07:36 GMT
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Tranna has these too, as does SF. Electric buses are cool, especially the
articulated ones. They can sneak up on pedestrians, you have to be on your
toes!!!

Assuming you mean Toronto, they don't any more, and haven't for 6(?) or more
years.  I can remember seeing the Edmonton busses arriving at Hillcrest yard,
just before they got stupid and deenergized the system (yes, I do know that it
was hard to get parts, but, they were far more environmentally friendly to
downtown Toronto than the diesel busses which replaced them)

Vancouver still has them.

James P



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  Re: Metroliner question
 
(...) Tranna has these too, as does SF. Electric buses are cool, especially the articulated ones. They can sneak up on pedestrians, you have to be on your toes!!! Of course buses use trolley poles and single wire (per pickup), rather than (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)

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