[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh 7-Charles Street abandonment

[Jim Holland]

> Shirley Tennyson wrote:

> The only overloadng was on late cars
> catching the followers' load but Palmer did not count that. Neither
> would I.  Get cars on time.

	This makes sense - the overload was not due to higher demand than
scheduling allowed.
	No matter how good the training, personality differences are a factor
in keeping schedules.  Some people are driven this way, others are not -
and I don't say this in a negative sense.  Some operators feel unsafe
running at fever pitch and really are not geared to work that way.  My
follower is that type of individual but is highly reliable and
dependable otherwise - he will keep on going no matter what but has
difficulty maintaining the schedule with heavy traffic and passenger
loads.

> Palmer  took the position that when the contract expired, the
> arbitration clause also expired. Maybe it did, but i also make strikes.

	Some contracts have clauses which keeps the current contract in effect
for a certain period of time after expiration.

> I suggested
> that P.Ry.Co institute Blue Ridge type tax free ten-trip commuter
> tickets but i was too late to change course.  I also suggested
> interurban seats for 1700-1724 PCC cars but management said if Anne X.
> Alpern learned of that she would take it to court and hold up  car order
> for 100 cars.

	So there was actually a loop-hole in the interurban tax?
	Wish you could have prevailed in both cases!

	How do you see light rail today, specifically in Pittsburgh but also
the US in general?  Light rail is heavily subsidized - do you think this
is good or bad?

-- 
James B. Holland
        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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