[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs

[John Swindler]

>Jim Holland wrote:
>
>
>Good Morning!!
>
> > Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:
>
> > Just a little tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that of all the 
>paint
> > schemes they have employed, MUNI has yet to paint a car in the livery of 
>the
> > second largest PCC user in the nation.
>
>	This seemed to be by design  --  tried to find out why Pgh. was never
>represented and I always got the runaround.
>
>	The original  ({[pat]})  colors are actually representative of an
>organization that was determined to *rid the city of the derogatory
>reputation of the largest operating trolleycar museum in the country*
>(to use words of one  ({[pat]})  official of the 1960s as was quoted on
>this list once before.)
>
>


But you should see what the Public Utility Commission referred to city 
representatives in an earlier attempt to "rid the city" of streetcars.  
Terms such as "reckless", "not experienced" and "lack of preparation" etc, 
are used to describe the City of Pittsburgh's "expert" witnesses.  This is 
in the early 1950s, and it is not a transcript of testimony, but the 
published final PUC decision.  In one case, the PUC actually went into some 
detail of the qualifications (or lack thereof) of the witnesses called by 
the city to advocate conversion to motor bus.  Very surprising.

Sorry about straying from topic.

John




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