If you have no interest in doing the same, what right have you to criticize Halton County for not picking up your favourite subway car?
It's not that I have no interest in doing the same, it's that I have no ability to. Surely you already knew that. But that's not the point, the point is
I shouldn't have to, or be expected to. Just like SRT foamers aren't expected to do anything and can get away with doing fuck all while their SRT cars are being handed to them on a silver platter.
If you have $1000, and I have $1, would you guilt trip me into giving away my $1 to charity so I'm left with nothing while you still have your $1000, instead of simply giving $1 yourself leaving you with "only" $999 instead of $1000? Would you expect me to not criticize you over that?
So, to answer your question, what right have I to criticize preservation societies for not picking up my favorite subway car, well, I have every right, especially if and when they decide to pick up a different subway car instead.
But since you think it's so easy for Halton
I didn't say it's "so easy" for them, but
no matter how difficult it actually is for them, it certainly is much easier for them than it is for me. If saving
9 SRT cars doesn't scream "that was easy", then what does? Obviously it's so easy for them as long as the involved vehicle isn't a Hawker, because we all know only the Hawkers are infamous for making things difficult and being an inconvenience/liability.
"save my favourite subway, peasant"
You spelled "hypocrite" wrong but ok (and yes, if and when they pick up another subway car instead of a Hawker, that
would make them hypocrites).
I could be persuaded to part with it, but you'll never take my collection of H-6 wheels. I need my barbell weights.
Do you actually have them, or were you being sarcastic? By chance, do you happen to have an H5 or H6 traction motor as well? That would certainly be a valuable artifact.
You have the wrong person if you think I'm old enough to have ridden a g-car, or would have the same level of anger over it not being preserved as you do for the H series.
I must've confused you with Steve X who expressed his wishes of bringing back G-car nostalgia. Maybe because you liked his comment about the G-cars, I assumed you were part of the same crowd.
Did TTC have the yard space to store the first 2 batch of cars let alone the H cars??
Of all the yard space used to store nearly 1000 in-service cars, I have a hard time buying the excuse that 1 or 2 saved cars of each type are the make-or-break point.
Did TTC think it was worth well retaining any type of vehicles and if so when did it start?? Lots of various type equipment has been used by the city/TTC since 1900 and how many remain around???
Why else would they have one of each tram type, the Fishbowls and now 2 Orion VIIs as well? And I suspect the LFSs will be up there too.
They are HUGE, they take up a lot of space.
More than 9 SRT cars? Yeah I call shenanigans on that.
Or perhaps an old timer who remembered the PCCs and did not wish to see a CLRV saved
The only reason a PCC Guy (hah!) would be against saving a CLRV is if not a single PCC were...
I'm sure you'll find someone who wishes that the RTS demo 1000 was kept in the historical fleet.
But was it scrapped though? Did it have a different engine than the production RTSs? Did the TPS get rid of the one they acquired around 2015 and send it to scrap? Does NYC not have one in their historical fleet?
BTW, whatever happened to that Orion VII HEV demo unit that was unveiled at the TTC around 2002?
There isn't a trolley bus in TTC Heritage Bus fleet today
Did HCRR have any before getting rid of all their buses and becoming 100% rail?
Cannot speak to Europe and haven't heard if anyone does keep any around for their system.
Many systems in Europe certainly do, including Munich, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Stockholm, and others.
Lot of Europe systems keep some of the heritage streetcar fleet
Yeah I really don't understand why trams are the #1 mode of transit that always get preserved everywhere, more than any other mode, period.