[PRCo] Re: book recomendation

[Fred Schneider]

It will never sell because railfans need scapegoats!   We can't  
possibly blame the demise of our trolleys on the fact that we loved  
automobiles, Dennis.   Get real.   <Don't take me seriously.  I'm  
laughing as I type.>  It's only half real.   The railfans probably  
don't want to read the truth.

f3

On Jun 14, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

> I have never been a huge fan of recommending books, but the current  
> one I am reading is an excellent capsule look at urban mass transit  
> and in particular, street railways.  In a little more than 150  
> pages, author Robert C. Post (PhD in American History from UCLA)  
> provides a concise history of the need for the rise in mass transit  
> and how it has changed our cities.  He quickly dismisses any  
> conspiracy theories on behalf of GM and American Cities and gives  
> the reader an overview of technologies, how they changed (or did  
> not), a chronology of urban transit and finishes with deciphering  
> of Judge Doom and the urban myths that have followed the "conspiracy"
> Urban Mass Transit
> Robert C. Post
> Greenwood Press
> 2007
>
>
> Dennis Fred Cramer
>      Trombone
>