PRCo. trivia

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

DF Cramer wrote:

>     How true.  As a docent trainer at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, I
> have been telling our operators for three years to be aware that our typical
> visitor has probably never been on a streetcar.  To them a horsecar carries
> horses, a cable car is what the guy drives who fixes your television and a
> streetcar is something that is modified from an automobile.

I have wondered for most of my life why the interurban era has been ignored by
general historians, film makers, transportation presentations.

Has anyone else on this list ever gone to the theater and watched a relatively
accurate portrayal of a certain locale during the 1900-1930 era and wonder why
the characters are using a steam train or some form of rubber tired
transportation, knowing the area was served by a heavily patronized interurban
network at that time in real life? Ken J.