[PRCo] NCL Lines

[Fredbruhn at aol.com]

I am happy to report that the ex WP company, Co-Operative Transit was not 
presssured at all by NCL to convert to bus.  A combination of worn out track, 
and
poor maintainance of equipment during the war  (although still basically 
quite sound as of 1946, these were Jewett and Cincinnati cars)  were part of 
the decision to convert to bus.  The riding public still liked the street 
cars, but the primary decision was political, the city of Wheeling felt the 
street car reflected "out of date" transportation,  and they wanted them 
gone.  There was also some clamor by both the W Va and Ohio road commissions 
that roads needed widened and the side of road operation had to move.  So the 
conversion was made.

It only took the states another 30 years to do something with the highways.

the other Fred