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| Author: | Sloan [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Vintage electric trolley bus/Seattle, WA |
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/o ... bus15.html |
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| Author: | phil [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vintage electric trolley bus/Seattle, WA |
of course, they interview the curator of the trolley bus division at IRM! we are developing one of the largest collections around, and i believe we are the only operational museum collection in N America |
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| Author: | Frank Hicks [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vintage electric trolley bus/Seattle, WA |
Actually the number of U.S. museums capable of trolley bus operation increased by 50% earlier this year, when Branford got a short section of trolley bus overhead operating. They plan to shoehorn a short loop of ETB overhead into their property in coming years. Seashore still has their point-to-point line and IRM has a longer trolley bus line capable of regular public operation, fully paved and with a wye at one end and loop at the other. |
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| Author: | Bob Davis [ Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vintage electric trolley bus/Seattle, WA |
Last time I was at Seashore, they were working on an ex Boston MTA trolley coach that had a pneumatic fare box. Seems this bus was designed without an on-board battery (the headlights appeared to have standard street-railway bulbs in them) so the farebox was run by some sort of air motor. Until I saw it in person, it sounded like something you tell the new guy to fetch, like sending a newly trained airman off to get "thirty yards of flight line", or the new mechanic's helper to the store room for a "set of spark plugs for a Cummins NH220" |
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| Author: | trolleyira [ Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vintage electric trolley bus/Seattle, WA |
I have a complete set of Cummins NH-220 spark plugs soaking in a bucket of prop wash. |
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