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From: edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: combination of third rail and overhead power
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 01:17:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 01:17:48 1986
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In article <1434@brl-tgr.ARPA> dennis@CSNET-SH.ARPA (Dennis Rockwell) writes:
>....  There is an LRV in the shops with trolley poles that was used
>for evaluation.
>Dennis

The book "Inside MUNI" by John McKane and Anthony Perles carries two
interesting pictures from the early days of the Boeing LRV's.  Page 47
carries a picture of "TWO PILOT LRV's nos. 1220 & 1221, arrived in
October 1977 and ran under existing overhead wires with trolley poles
to test components of the cars" Sure enough, there it is, trolley poles
and all.

Page 62 carries a picture of "MUNI REPAIR CAR.  #1088, one of the 1948
double-end PCC's ... was a testbed for the pantographs to be used on
the Boeing-Vertol LRV's and was the first electric car to operate in
the Muni Metro under Market St."  Indeed, two trolley poles (at each
end) and a half-pantograph in the center.

T'is amazing what a car-shop can do if told to do so. :-)
                                -e

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