Demise of the Interurbans

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	I have heard that in 1948, the federal bureaucrats applied the
15-percent travel tax to interurban strip tickets but not to Blue Ridge
Bus commutation tickets.  And this helped to do in the Charleroi and
Washington interurban lines.
	I believe it was by 1951 that the interurbans lost their *Limited*
running and displayed SHANNON-CHARLEROI (WASHINGTON) and ran locally
until the end.

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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