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Subject: Re: Re: Subways of US and Canada - furth - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 8-Jul-84 23:39:37 EDT
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haddock!stevel    Jul  8 16:51:00 1984

Boston does have two Boeing trolley cars that have both a panograph and a
trolley pole at each end. Until very recently the Arborway line was all
PCCs with trolley polls while the rest of the system could run either
type.  They have since modified the Arborway overhead to run panographs
out at least as far as the Northeastern stop. All of the work cars have
trolley polls and all of the trolley lines still support trolley pole
cars.

The Green line, the trolley line, has four different routes that converge
downtown and run together for about a one and a half miles.  There is
also a totally seperate piece of trolley track, no outside rail
connections at all, in Mattapan. The trolleys are put on a truck to get
to the maintainance shop. Does this make a trolley system? Nearly all of
the route miles are seperate.

Rumor has it that one of the advantages, along with lower maintainance,
is that more power can be gotten through a panograph.

Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd70|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel