Unveiled; First American-Made Street Car in 60 Years

[rb336]

Heck, with the Marxist in charge now, we would be lucky not to go as far back as the horse and buggy.

And with this, Bats reaches a new level of stupidity. he now goes on the ignore list

[gibran]

And with this, Bats reaches a new level of stupidity. he now goes on the ignore list

guess this thread should be called a "street car called desire"...for cc it must represent socialism at it's finest ...collecting people together...transporting them collectively...to sites where people collect.

[Jimaz]

I emailed a link to this thread to Jjaba but he's "not been on The Forum because of huge time constraints."

I hope he doesn't mind me carefully paraphrasing his insight into the subject:

At the dedication of the new Oregon Iron Works Streetcar, Boise, Idaho Mayor Beiter was also shopping. They want to plan a streetcar there and yes, Tuscon is already ordered. The last USA made cars were in 1952, St. Louis Car Company. They made the PCC cars used on Woodward, Michigan, and Jefferson Avenues, Detroit. I thanked Ray La Hood for his support.

The street car line on the Westside of 4 miles loop will be soon expanded to another 4 miles on the Eastside. That's 8 miles of streetcar lines since the 2001 opening. They are run FARELESS, no charge, without conductors. They are run by one motorman operator.

The new car is exactly to the inch the same cars used by Portland built in Czech Republic. Portland Streetcar Lines owns 11 of them; It takes 7 to be on the road to run at good headways. Also, there are some vintage cars, replicas, which are also run in revenue service on weekends.