On Aug 16, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Dennis Miles via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> I can remember streetcars using the catenary wires for power then rubber > tires busses with limited lane changing capability using catenary wires in > Pittsburgh, PA in the mid 1950`s. Unless my remembery is playing tricks on me, MUNI in the San Francisco Bay Area still uses both on major surface street routes -- and I'm pretty sure the system dates back to that same era. This isn't a novelty tourist attraction like the famous cable cars, but the regular public transit system. ...and, of course, BART is fully electrified with a third rail.... b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140816/b0d7e0d6/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
