[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh 7-Charles Street abandonment

[Jim Holland]

HI!
        I should have mentioned the time frame - as you indicate, it was
by the
1960s that trolleycars were thought of as antique by at least the
motoring public, not so much the riding public.

        I was under the  *impression*  that Palmer and the drivers got
along
fairly well.  I have the image of a grand-fatherly type person who knows
what is best and doesn't with hold it from his people.  Frugal, yes, but
benevolent.

        Is this a wrong impression?

	Also interesting to note that PRCo was not losing as much ridership as
other systems after the war.

	While I had asked earlier about the possibilities of the interurbans
being saved by WW-2 had PRCo the legal option to abandon, maybe there is
another question that can be asked.  From your experience, had Anne Not
insisted on transit in Allegheny County Only  --  what chances do you
think the interurbans to Charleroi and Washington had of surviving for a
few more years rather than be truncated in 1953?  (THAT  little,
huh?!?!)

        Again, Many Thanks for taking the time to write your experience!

> Shirley Tennyson wrote:

>    When I worked for Pitsburgh Railways Co. in 1947-1949 there was no
> public call for buses, other than from corrupt politic- ians. I will
> explain why they were not well intentioned.

> Palmer took out his hate for the Union on
> the ridres. Tom Fitzgerald never had a legal strike but there were some
> short (a few hours) local (one ar barn) wilcats that did less harm.

> E d  T e n n y s o n

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