[PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Pittsburgh Rwy Cars]

[Fred W. Schneider III]

It was easy to believe and West Penn said so in their abandonment
petitition.  Except there was no TV in that region when the West Penn
petition was filed!  It sounded really good for the PUC types from
Harrisburg, who could listen to then WGAL TV Channel 4 from Lancaster. 
We can look at one channel in Harrisburg, can't everyone?  By 1950
Johnstown had television.  But nobody in Fayette County had TV.  It was
a bald faced lie by West Penn's management to add weight to their effort
to abandon services that had lost money for 30 some years. But Bob
Brown, who lived in Pittsburgh and wrote the piece, had to know
better.   

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well Fred if two publications said it was TV that reduced the riding on
> > West Penn and you did not believe it, what do you think the real reason
> > was? To me it sounded plausible that the draw of watching Ed Sullivan
> > and a whole lot of other things on the 12 inch sets like my neihbor had
> > where us kids went to watch  it, made perfect sense. Instead of riding
> > the trolley to the local bijou , people stayed home glued to that new
> > fangled picture box !
> 
> TV: not in 1952 in little coal patch and beehive coke oven towns.
> 
> -D