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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, 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.  

"Everyone sucks" is not a defense against "you suck".

What's more interesting is "were they bad for some other reason". I don't
have enough information to answer that question, and so I can pass no
judgement.

Jumping back to something more local, it does seem a shame, still, to have
orphaned the West End rights of way, and then come back years later and
build a busway on an old rail line serving much of the same area, and with
at least some of the same liability: it doesn't come downtown, or even
close enough. The difference is buses can use the Fort Pitt bridge, and
the streetcars couldn't.

But blaming Pittsburgh Railways for what happened when the state of the
world was such is a bit unrealistic.