[PRCo] Re: Overbrook

[Fred Schneider]

I think we all agree with you Mark.  I once considered producing a doctored photo with a Pennsylvania Railroad E-44 pulling a coal train up
the hill out of Washington Junction.  Ed Lybarger and Larry Lovejoy once wrote a piece for "Trolley Fare" where PAT was awarded an Andrew
Carnegie prize for innovative use of steel.  It is damned ugly.  Think how many steel beams for houses could be made out of those cat poles
... maybe enough for 2,500 homes?  (That would hold up a lot of books in my den.)

The other side of the story was simple.  They had the federal money to build Skybus.  If they didn't give spend it, some other transit
authority would get it.  So it was spent in Allegheny County on steel catenary poles!   A basic government principal ... allow no one else
to spend your money, and never, ever, give it back to the taxpayers.

Mark McGuire wrote: