Westinghouse -- GE -- Again -- !!!!!!!!!

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	YES, Fred, I concur.  It is NOT a GE issue.

	PLEASE NOTE:  I said this in my very first post.  Let me quote:

". . . this GE scrapping was probably due more to expediency than
inferiority - the only GE cars on the Boston system were the
all-electrics (25-cars) and Picture Window cars (50-cars) out of a total
of 346 PCC cars."

	And Yes, I agree that this is a math problem  --  *M-Y*  math problem
which is included in the post above.  When I first looked at the tables,
I somehow thought there were only 75-GE cars on the property.  Looking
at the tables again I find that there were a total of 170-Westinghouse
Cars and a total of 176-GE cars.

	And again, please let me include the quote from your book, *PCC The Car
That Fought Back* pg.34::

"Also hard hit by the scrapper's torch were the Picture Window cars,
both groups [1-picture windows--2-all-electrics] being singled out
because of their non-standard General Electric control systems."

	I originally took *non-standard* to mean that the balance of equipment
was Westinghouse with little GE equipment around.  But I now believe
that *non-standard* means *type-of-GE-equipment---MCM* (at least in the
case of the picture window cars.)

	So the decision to go with Westinghouse was a matter of *expediency* 
(*as-I-said-in-my-very-first-post!)  and not a matter of quality
concerning Westinghouse or GE.

	I am including a couple of the posts as forwards so this information
might be checked in context.

James B. Holland

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