[PRCo] Re: PRC Car Cards

Fred Schneider fschnei at supernet.com
Thu Sep 5 12:52:44 EDT 2002


Read.

Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> Interesting Stuff, Fred. I'd sure like to find union literature from other
> cities and see how they reacted (if at all) to the early one-manning of
> Pittsburgh cars. I know some unions used safety issues to garner both public
> and political support against one man operation when the trend began to
> spread. Some politicians made their careers by "punishing" the "evil" street
> railway companies and their supposed disregard for public safety when these
> companies attempted to convert to one man operation.
>
> Of course, a two man crew didn't stop the deadly runaway in the tunnel
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