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Is Savannah trying to kill Dottie the Streetcar?

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 5:35 PM

 The city of Detroits Pourtagese 2 foot gauge streetcars are back in the UK? That would be news because last time I tried talking to the Kilpatrick Adminstation nobody knew where they were but speculated that one streetcar ended up in a private collection in Washington State.

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Posted by 54light15 on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 3:13 PM

Not sure, I gave away that copy of Heritage Railway that told about it. Maybe Crich?

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:34 AM

But where in the UK?

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Posted by 54light15 on Monday, April 25, 2016 10:40 AM

The Detroit streetcars are back in the U.K.

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Posted by RME on Monday, April 25, 2016 9:08 AM

Even a lunchbox could connect the dots, as it were.  There's a combination of unexpected track maintenance and new construction that has suspended a resumption of operation until at least the end of the year.  I am not sure the Savannah people quite understand everything that's required to keep a streetcar operation running (the outsourced Memphis management certainly didn't), but the 'official' story appears to be that they'll resume service in time:

http://www.connectonthedot.com/wheres-dottie/

 (I have a suggestion for a 'meme' we should use when answering these type of posts...

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... FISH ON!

that being the usual sort of thing when trollling produces a response...)

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Is Savannah trying to kill Dottie the Streetcar?
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Saturday, April 23, 2016 12:36 PM

Looks like we might have a fallen flag here just like when Detroit killed its streetcar in the 1990s when there streetcars went AWOL and are nowhere to be found.

http://www.wtoc.com/story/31792967/asked-and-answered-where-is-dottie-the-street-car-now

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