Altamont Press Discussion Board

01-13-2019 - 15:46

synonymouse

1561. Re: Reported PG&E approaching big banks hat in hand

The political PH or tenor of California is considerably farther towards the left than in times past. RR could not get elected Guv today. I would guess the left of the Party will be on the Governor
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01-13-2019 - 13:56

synonymouse

1562. 2 drivers' unions?

http://www.sfexaminer.com/chariot-drivers-get-new-gigs-muni/
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01-13-2019 - 13:46

synonymouse

1563. Reported PG&E approaching big banks hat in hand

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pg-e-us-bankruptcy-exclusive/exclusive-pge-talking-to-banks-on-multibillion-dollar-bankruptcy-financing-sources-idUSKCN1P70PY The rail connection is of course BAR
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01-12-2019 - 13:57

synonymouse

1564. Re: The T goes to Balboa Park?

I thought maybe Muni had snuck some track in on Geneva unbeknownst to SPUR et al.
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01-12-2019 - 13:01

synonymouse

1565. The T goes to Balboa Park?

http://www.sfexaminer.com/plague-muni-train-switchbacks-bayview-may-finally-eliminated/ Check the destination display - are they talking going out on the J?
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01-11-2019 - 23:42

synonymouse

1566. Re: Jitney Co. goes titsup everywhere

The Mission jitney was la lifesaver during the Muni strike.
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01-11-2019 - 20:25

synonymouse

1567. Re: Chariot's demise

In SF you don't mess with unions connected to the Party machine, ergo TWU 250A. But BART can; it is the mother of Party pets. For all intents and purposes SPUR, like MTC, is a BART asset.
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01-11-2019 - 15:43

synonymouse

1568. Jitney Co. goes titsup in SF

http://www.sfexaminer.com/business-private-bus-company-chariot-cease-operations-march/ Don't mess with TWU 250A. Unless you are BART-MTC-SPUR-Amalgamated.
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01-08-2019 - 13:31

synonymouse

1569. "bad actors"?

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/1/7/18172782/bart-cars-decomissioned-fleet-housing Is the aluminum scrap value of a BART beercan more than $5 grand?
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01-06-2019 - 14:12

synonymouse

1570. More steel prescribed

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Repair-plan-set-steel-ordered-to-fix-cracked-13509451.php?utm_campaign=twitter-premium&utm_source=CMS%20Sharing%20Button&utm_medium=social
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01-06-2019 - 11:11

synonymouse

1571. PG&E to crap out?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pg-e-us-bankruptcy-exclusive/exclusive-california-utility-pge-explores-bankruptcy-filing-sources-idUSKCN1OY225 I kinda doubt a new PG&E bankruptcy would go down a
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01-05-2019 - 23:07

synonymouse

1572. Re: "BART is considering selling vehicles to another transit operator for use"

Glengarry Glen Park
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01-05-2019 - 17:43

synonymouse

1573. "BART is considering selling vehicles to another transit operator for use"

http://www.sfexaminer.com/soon-retired-bart-cars-become-airbnb-hotels-homeless-shelters-housing/ Indian Railways? BART dildos should have thought of this eventuality when they hired you know who
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01-05-2019 - 16:42

synonymouse

1574. Re: A few maps might be helpful

The 3 main projects Muni is doing now all suffer from being lazily conceived and politicized. The Central Stubway was moved to a secondary route and now would logically end up at Kirkland Yard. Not
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01-05-2019 - 10:56

synonymouse

1575. Re: A few maps might be helpful

Cala Foods previously. One tidbit I did learn from this investigation(and which I suspected)is that they did change the direction of Sacramento & Clay Sts. from uphill on Clay to downhill. One sug
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01-04-2019 - 18:09

synonymouse

1576. Re: A few maps might be helpful

The California Cable RR carhouse was replaced with an all-nite grocery store. Selling off its carhouse real estate became a Muni specialty and probably influenced the great postwar bustitution.
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01-04-2019 - 17:58

synonymouse

1577. Re: A few maps might be helpful

I did not know that. Did that make for less slack or slap in the rope? I know the Cal Cable RR Co. used a side grip and I believe the slot was somewhat offset and more so west of Van Ness? Stil
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01-04-2019 - 15:46

synonymouse

1578. Re: A few maps might be helpful

I could not get those links to work but I did find some solid info: http://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccsffch.html The lines were connected in the west possibly but cut back and the Sacramento S
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01-04-2019 - 11:37

synonymouse

1579. Re: A few maps might be helpful

I got the 1893 map to come up but not the one from 1906. It looks like the Washington & Jackson Sts. line did proceed beyond Steiner for a time, but that would have made for a long rope. And subs
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01-04-2019 - 00:51

synonymouse

1580. Re: Muni tracks were on the outside lanes on Market?

No, the Sacramento St. line was out of Washington & Mason carhouse and 42" gauge as well. I came up with some ideas about how cars were put into service on the Sacramento St. line. In the early da
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01-04-2019 - 00:16

synonymouse

1581. Re: Mobilizing by Mouse, who is wrong again, as usual, and no trains.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/french-admiral-jean-darlan-is-assassinated Operation Torch November, 1942. Darlan shot December, 1942. No German troops in Spain had to be very impor
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01-03-2019 - 20:10

synonymouse

1582. Re: Muni tracks were on the outside lanes on Market?

AFAIK Market St. was always standard gauge(save for that mutant duorail in the lower depths). Both the cable cars and post 1906 the streetcars. It would appear the earlier horsecars on Market were a
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01-03-2019 - 19:30

synonymouse

1583. Re: Mobilizing by Rail to Defeat the Desert Fox-the real American contribution to "Monty's" "victory" at El Alamein

I suspect aiding in the conquest of North Africa were the destruction of the French fleet at Oran ordered by Churchill, the assassination of Vichy loyalist Admiral Jean Darlan and Churchill's very sub
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01-03-2019 - 15:24

synonymouse

1584. Re: Muni tracks were on the outside lanes on Market?

I haven't found an answer yet but I suspect that the connection was with access curves off of Powell St. One pertinent question is whether the one way directions of Sacramento and Clay remained outbo
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01-03-2019 - 11:20

synonymouse

1585. Muni tracks were on the outside lanes on Market?

I thought the opposite, but there the proof is there in B&W: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/celebrate-munis-birthday-75-years-historic-photos Scroll down to the shot from April 2, 1940, which was a
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01-01-2019 - 20:14

synonymouse

1586. Re: China still has steam

I suspect the Chinese steam operation is somewhat akin to the Northwestern Steel in Illinois using Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0's well past the steam era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_S
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12-30-2018 - 15:03

synonymouse

1587. Re: Georgian Trolleys

On the other hand this and other videos from the 3rd world demonstrate just how robust is electric traction even under the most adverse conditions and maintenance. Do you think a monorail or Skybus-l
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12-30-2018 - 14:58

synonymouse

1588. Re: Newsom gets his own big dig

But then there was Gray Davis. I never did figure who exactly he pissed off.
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12-30-2018 - 14:50

synonymouse

1589. Re: Of the 385,000 electric buses worldwide, 99% of them are in China

Unfortunately surrounding "the general area of the subject being discussed" we have the real world in which we live and where these schemes such as trolley-battery bus with automatic drop down-pop up
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12-30-2018 - 10:00

synonymouse

1590. Re: Of the 385,000 electric buses worldwide, 99% of them are in China

Obviously Switzerland is way ahead of California, which is more like the Mezzogiorno. The ruling party here resembles an organized crime family. And the current crop of "capi" make Schwarzenegger lo
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