[milwaukee-electric] National City Lines.

[Louis Rugani]

Thanks, Bill. No offense was taken; that was just an explanation.

Right, one person asked to stop discussing NCL, even though NCL was active around here. Part of NCL's structure was Northland Greyhound, which got control of the NSL and Kenosha and Racine Motor Coach Lines. KMCL made a fortune buying up TMER&L lines for peanuts and then scrapping them out for ten times what they'd paid. Their chief operative was dairyman Henry P. Bruner of Racine, who also had ties to Hammond Coach in Indiana. When the lines were gone, KMCL went out of business with their profits. I did some radio shows on the local tie-ins last year. Otherwise there is the great "Taken For a Ride" by New Day Films on YouTube.

I believe there's evidence that NCL's secret efforts also quietly put the coup de grace on the wounded Speedrail in 1950-1951.  

NCL as such may be gone, but it's not over because now we rail advocates have the likes of Wendell Cox, Tom Rubin, the Koch Brothers, the Cato Institute and other front groups and their stooges like Scott Walker fighting rail every inch of the way. 


-----Original Message-----
From: William Sell
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:20 PM
To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: National City Lines.

Lou

My comment in NO WAY was aimed as a criticism of you. I appreciate 
your vigorous defense of rail as an essential part of a modern city's 
infrastructure. Nor did I accuse anyone of discourtesy.  But we did 
get a request to limit discussion. I made what I thought was the 
proper gesture, but no one has joined my suggestion.  Your dissent 
would seem to be the vote that counts. 1-0, keep politics alive.  I join you.

As for politics, I find it difficult to look at photos of old trains 
and not feel rage for our losses.   2-0.

.....What is NCL?

Bill





At 02:25 PM 3/22/2011, Louis Rugani wrote:
>"I don't want a tit for tat rail argument here."
>
>The gentleman posted the tit, so I posted the tat.
>
>"But let's take it off this listserve
>as a courtesy to the rest of the readers here."
>
>I didn't consider anything remotely discourteous. My investigations 
>show that NCL had its corroding fingers in Kenosha Motor Coach 
>Lines, and thereby in Milwaukee.
>
>=Lou=
>
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>The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.      Robert Anthony

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