[PRCo] Re: OT:___1936--1937___PCC

[Donald Galt]

On 28 Oct 2002 at 11:55, Fred Schneider wrote:

> 
> Sad that the railfans are so determined that National City Lines was bad.  They cannot
> understand that, no matter who owned Baltimore Transit, the company would be running
> buses and probably not on a much different timetable than NCL had.  When the last two
> routes were converted in 1963, the cars were only there because they worked and there was
> no money for new buses until the city paid for them!
> 

And, absent its mephistophelean baggage, NCL's fruit salad was quite attractive 
- more so than those of some of its predecessors.

Colours really oughtn't be hostage to politics. It was LMTA, not Jesse Hough, 
that finally rid Los Angeles of its streetcars. And LAMTA green is, IMHO, one 
of the handsomest liveries around.

Don