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.