G.E. Equipped PCCs

[Carl Zager]

Excellent point!
Unfortunately, in the late 50's I had to ride a bus to get to the trolley
lines. And I know that my "we" is not us. We wouldn't be in this group and
enjoying all this history and comraderie if we were.
Bless you and yours.

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jim Holland wrote:
> > >     It was not necessarily the fact that *we-the-people* abandoned
> > > trolleycars  --  we abandoned public transport for private mobility  --
> > > which means abandoning trolleycars, trolley coaches, and motor coaches!
> > > This, too, was a factor but not the total cause.
> > >     It was inevitable that this would happen!
> 
> > Carl Zager wrote:
> 
> > In the long run -- say the last 40 years (has it been that long!) -- I
> > would agree, totally with your assessment, particularly in the Pittsburgh
> > area. But in the beginning, it appeared that "we" did abandon trolleys for
> > buses. We probably now know that was only an interim step toward private
> > autos.
> 
> 	Good point  --  the populace at large might have abandoned trolleycars
> for buses since the latter were new and innovative etc.
> 	But I seriously doubt that *we* did  --  I can only remember riding a
> bus twice in Pgh.  --  I refused to do so because I am a trolleycar fan!
> 
> James B. Holland
> 
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 Carl Zager						KB9RVB
 czager at bloomington.in.us         http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager