[PRCo] Re: More Theories I Have Heard & Read

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

I believe that the use of Chicago PCC cars to build new rapid transit cars
at low cost hastened the conversion.

Here is another one about Detroit.  DSR purchased a small fleet of 40" New
Look Flxible buses in the 1970's.  Political pressure to replace them with
locally built GMC's was so strong that DSR sold them to Cedar Rapids.
Many were never repainted in Cedar Rapids.  I rode on them in the
late 1970's.  Local pride or GM power!

Tie to Pittsburgh:  I purchased the first Flxible buses for PAT in the 1970's.
35' 102 " wide 8 cylinder buses.  Also purchased 20 40' semi-suburbans.

Harold Geissenheimer

Ken & Tracie wrote:

> Below are some interesting opinions and theories. I do not admit to either agreeing
> nor disagreeing with them. I just wish to illustrate the NCL-conspiracy crowd isn't
> the only group out there.
>
> 1.) The Cold War killed the streetcar in D.C...the capitol of the leading world super
> power could not have "obsolete trolleys" and tracks in their streets....(yes, we all
> know about Georgetown.)
>
> 2.) Milwaukee killed some profitable inner sections of their interurban system due to
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