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No Museum will even take the Boeing Vertol's.....sad.
Author: BOB2
Date: 03-31-2016 - 18:20
What, no museum will even take the Boeing Vertol's....?
This is a nice article on an interesting "experiment" with what "buy America" FTA requirements bought you in the late 1970's......
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They were ironically seen as part of the rebirth of high capacity LRT at that time, and seen as innovative (if you forget that Europe had been running 3 bogey high capacity articulated trollies since the late 1940's) at the time. When they appeared in Boston and SF these were some of the first new cars in over 25 years. The high floor subway, to steps down loading on the branches, lead to an "innovative" "retractable step, that was trouble from day one, as I recall.
This is a nice article on an interesting "experiment" with what "buy America" FTA requirements bought you in the late 1970's......
[url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/last-munis-1980s-era-clunker-trains-will-scrapped/url]
[www.sfexaminer.com]
They were ironically seen as part of the rebirth of high capacity LRT at that time, and seen as innovative (if you forget that Europe had been running 3 bogey high capacity articulated trollies since the late 1940's) at the time. When they appeared in Boston and SF these were some of the first new cars in over 25 years. The high floor subway, to steps down loading on the branches, lead to an "innovative" "retractable step, that was trouble from day one, as I recall.
No Museum will even take the Boeing Vertol's.....sad.