Chuck.Weinstock@a.sei.cmu.edu (12/31/85)
I, for one, would like to see the Railroad list include discussions of issues on trains, planes, ships, trucks, and buses. Would this turn people off? This month is the 50th anniversary of the DC3 or Gooney Bird. This is the remarkable aircraft that made commercial airlines possible. Prior to this, no aircraft had the range or payload to allow the operation of passenger service to be generally profitable. Something in excess of 10,000 of these aircraft were built, and it is a testimonial to their lack of planned obsolescence that approximately 2,000 are flying today, some in scheduled service in the United States. Interestingly, I believe that more DC3's are still flying than Boeing built 727's. Chuck
Kovalcik@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (Richard Kovalcik, Jr.) (12/31/85)
There is already an aviation mailing list. Please use that. If need be create a highway-users mailing list. I'd love to be on it, I just don't want this mailing list poluted.
Chuck.Weinstock@a.sei.cmu.edu (12/31/85)
As I recall (when I was on it) the Aviation list is populated by pilots talking about airports, best flying routes, etc. Is this no longer the case? If so, please tell me how I can get back on it . Chuck
RWK@SCRC-YUKON.ARPA (Robert W. Kerns) (01/01/86)
Date: Tuesday, 31 December 1985 10:58:52 EST
From: Chuck.Weinstock@a.sei.cmu.edu
I, for one, would like to see the Railroad list include discussions of
issues on trains, planes, ships, trucks, and buses. Would this turn people
off?
Yes, it would. I'd be quite interested in a list about ships, but not
if I had to put up with planes, trucks, and buses. Even Railroad gets
a bit heavy sometimes, although I can't see splitting railroads and
model railroads. (I'm only interested in the real thing, but I suspect
the readerships overlap too much).
Perhaps trucks, buses, and general transportation issues could be
grouped into a single list, though.
Let me know if someone starts up a ships list; I can't reasonably
sponsor a mailing-list from here, but I'm likely to contribute!Burton.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA (01/01/86)
I agree with all the statements that we should keep the railroad mailing list jujst on railroads. Sure I have a bit of an interest in aviation, and autos, and trucks, since I fly at least once a month, I drive to work, and I get things delivered to my house by truck, but .... I think we all agree on this issue, and let's not send any more messages, clogging the mail services. How about a discussion on *real matters.* I'll throw this topic open: How to use your personal computer in your hobby. Phil Burton Xerox Corporation
4373jml@homxb.UUCP (J.LISS) (01/03/86)
NO NO a 1000 TIMES NO, IF you want to talk about ships, planes, busses, rickshaws, bicycle boats, etc., please try to form a new newsgroup. Please don't "pollute" net.railroad. - Thanks.
cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) (01/03/86)
*** REPLACE THIS RAILROAD LINE WITH YOUR HIGHWAY *** I'd vote for one exception -- buses. Sure, they killed streetcars, but there were a heck of a lot of interesting city buses out there -- trackless trolleys (Marmons, Pullmans), gasoline (Fageol Twin Coaches) and who-knows-what. But if there wasn't interest in these before on the, net, why would there be now? Just to kick things off -- trackless trolleys departed from my hometown (Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA) in 1965, but I've since ridden them in other cities -- most notably Canadian. Toronto and Vancouver have gobs of them. It was always my fantasy as a kid to drive one of those things -- the pickup seemed great! Carl Blesch