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Re: Pantograph for Trackless Trolley vs. Light Rail or MU |
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Posted by WillD on Thu Sep 6 14:12:28 2007, in response to Re: Pantograph for Trackless Trolley vs. Light Rail or MU, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Thu Sep 6 12:08:59 2007. NOT SO! The pan equipped LRV's are NOT run on the track segments with dual wire for TC's. Streetcars w/ poles are operated thereThat's not what I said, or at least not what I meant. I believe I made it overwhelmingly clear that what I meant was that the pantograph equipped LRV would use one wire directly over the lane it is travelling in, while the trolleybus uses two wires offset to one side, perhaps as much as one lane. And yes, San Fransisco does do this where the J and 22 share Church St:  Note that there's nothing to keep a trolleybus from operating over the LRV's tracks other than reach of the poles, which should be more than sufficient. Thus a trolleybus could follow right behind a LRV using wires offset from the center of the lane of travel without incident. Perhaps a better illustration is below, where the trolleybus has no choice but to operate under the LRV wire with the trolleybus's two wires offset from the vehicle centerline. 
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