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Re: Presidents' Confounded Committee
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 09-20-2020 - 11:17

> 21st century PCC operations abound.

With rehabbed ones from the late 1940s.

> Bus with steel wheels.

They may be PCCs, but at they kept the tracks and wires in place, which even trolleybusses didn't.

> Self-lap mediocrity.

Self-lapping brakes were quite common in electric cars built after about 1928: Baltimore city cars, Third Avenue Railway rebuilds, C&LE Red D_evils, IRR lightweights, and so on.

> No time machine needed.

Nope, just go to any of the big railway museums.

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