[PRCo] Re: [PRC] little note on Henry Ford and the streetcar...

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

Once again the world goes in a circle and returns to the same place!

In Dresden, Germany, the street railway has started trolley freight service
between two VW plants to move parts directly.  They built new articulated
cars for this purpose.  Looks like VW is better tuned to use of LRV.

Matt's point of walking from the garage is also well taken.

Matt please send me your Email address:  Write <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net.
Thanks

Harold Geissenheimer

Matt Barry wrote:

> Passage from:   http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/lifestyle/autos.htm
>
> But transportational dependency can lead to even larger profits. Henry
> Ford believed in an America in which each family or person would own a
> car. At the same time, he was absolutely opposed to the use of
> streetcars, even to the point of insisting on not doing business with
> any company that received or shipped goods using their services (freight
> traffic on the streetcar lines was a good source of profit before the
> depression). What was so wrong with streetcars? Were they inconvenient
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