[PRCo] Re: Wheels__&__Shoes

[James B. Holland]

ktjosephson at earthlink.net wrote:

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>From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
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>   And with the waning of trolleycars and
>  
>
>>({[pats]})  hell-bent attitude to rid the city of trolleycars why would
>>they even consider the change and why would they be considered as a
>>source of information on such data  --  they didn't care!
>>    
>>
>
>It was during Harold Geissenheimer's regime when the "Traction and Models"
>discussion of wheels versus shoes was published. I believe the article noted
>that Philadelphia was completing its change-over to shoes and that
>Pittsburgh was the only remaining U.S. system to use wheels exclusively.
>
>K.
>
             But the preceding decade was dominated by TrolleyCar Haters 
so any good information passed forward by PRCo was probably buried / 
lost / burned / destroyed / etc. / etc. / etc....... by  ({[pat]})..

Jim Holland