[PRCo] Re: "Runaway PCC Crashes at Station Square" --- Revisited

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

	Maybe a revision or two is needed, but the article is quite scholarly,
well written, and informative!

> Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> If we could rewrite this column today we would not say the 1917 accident was
> the sole precipitant to the bankruptcy, but merely one of a number of
> causes.

> On Behalf Of Jim Holland
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2:58 AM

> "Runaway PCC Crashes at Station Square"   ---   Revisited

>         The following is copied from
>                 <*>--Trolley  Fare--<*>
>                         November--December--1987

> "'Pittsburgh Points'  by Edward H. Lybarger and Lawrence G. Lovejoy"

>                 Editor's note:  The writers wish to thank
>         Member John C. Swindler of Harrisburg for supplying
>         copies of the 1917 newspaper articles which provided
>         much of the historic data which follows.  John's
>         efforts in digging it out of the State Library were
>         of great help in the preparation of this month's column.

-- 
James B. Holland

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