[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

>> Jim Holland wrote:

>>       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.)

> John Swindler wrote:

> 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.

	Someone else described the corruption aroung Pgh. as being just short
of sinister terrorists  --  and this description was made 3--months
ago!!   The claim was that the corruption around Pgh. and Allegheny
County was not equalled in the U.S.

> Sorry about straying from topic.

	Twasn't a stray  --  detailing the Burgh's animosity for PRCo and its
trolleycars.

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company Trolleycars  &
        "O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
        Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) http://www.pa-trolley.org/
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/

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