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  • Re: OT: Where am I?

    From Nobody@jock@soccer.com to uk.railway on Thu Jan 8 16:17:56 2026
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    On 2025-12-19 1:15 p.m., Graeme Wall wrote:

    <dated>

    Ah, it was disguised by the palm tree behind it.

    Palms are rather frond of doing that...
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  • From Nobody@jock@soccer.com to uk.railway on Thu Jan 8 16:41:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.railway

    On 2025-12-19 1:53 p.m., Sam Wilson wrote:
    Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    Sam Wilson <ukr@dummy.wislons.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:

    <Who worries about attribution?>

    In different circumstances, a similar design could be used by
    uni-directional sets that always run in the same direction. Many older
    tramways used that arrangement.

    Indeed, with balloon loops at termini and other reversing points!

    Sam


    I was in San Francisco a few months back and had to ride the F-Line with
    its historic streetcars. I was puzzled getting on the first near the
    cruise ship terminal on the Embarcadero as the layout seemed strange for
    a PCC... then it hit me: it was double-ended.

    Ducking low-flying ducks because of the Reclining Sam conversation, a
    search shows SF's Muni Railway has a surprising number, though I hadn't
    taken a record of which one I rode.

    https://www.streetcar.org/san-franciscos-historic-streetcars/
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