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

[Fred Schneider]

I believed the LAMTA green was really the next generation NCL livery after the fruit salad.  It
was also used by Baltimore Tranzit ... the buses that came in 1963 to replace the last two car
lines were in the same green.

I also agree that the yellow, olive and white scheme used by NCL properties such as Los Angles,
Oakland, El Paso and Waco was quite attractive.

I guess one of the other things that railfans often fail to recognize is the exemplary state of
maintenance by NCL properties.  Both LATL and SLPS were award winners.  In fact, the Los
Angeles RTD maintenance didn't decline until the late 1970s when the last former LATL
superintentendent was replaced by a former PE man.

And if I had to sit in a driver's seat all day back in the 1940s, I would have much preferred a
GM diesel automatic to anything else on the market.  Believe me, a 35 foot GM is much much
easier to wheel around city streets than a 25 foot Ford.   And they lasted 5 to 10 times
longer.

Donald Galt wrote:

> 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!
> >
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