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Re: Trolley wheels/carbon skids on Melb trams
- Subject: Re: Trolley wheels/carbon skids on Melb trams
- From: "Jeff B. Kurland" <kurlandj@erols.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 13:46:04 -0400
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Road Runner
- References: <379FE412.1B0913E@omni.com.au> <7np1p0$64p$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <37A03291.7B40@netspace.net.au> <37a2ebad.12391287@news.ocean.com.au> <37A3BFA6.5B7B@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>
Dave McL <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
37A3BFA6.5B7B@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz">news:37A3BFA6.5B7B@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz...
> Someone told me recently that the trams on Philadelphia's
subway-surface
> lines still use wheels. They are one of the few systems left in the
> world still using poles, the others being, IIRC, the F-Market line in
> San Francisco, New Orleans, Toronto, Naples, Lisbon, Calcutta, Riga
and
> maybe one or two other places (apart from the Ws in Melbourne). Most
> systems have long ago changed to pans. St Etienne in France changed to
> pans last year, the last French system to do so.
Boston, MA (USA) MBTA Mattapan-Ashmont PCC cars still use trolley poles
with carbon shoes (skids).