[PRCo] Re: PCC Question

[Herb Brannon]

I don't think politics played into the transit business in that era except
in taxing the private transit company and making them pave and clean
streets.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:25, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> My guess (and it is only a guess) is politics.
>
> K.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>  Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 7:45 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Question
>
>
>  >> The PCC was, in general, a pretty good car. Compared to the Philly
> >> Kawasaki car, not nearly as good. The Kawasakis have run 30 years with
> >> virtually no maintenance. No PCC ever did that but we did not build for
> >> no maintenance in 1935 or 1945; we need to do that today because we
> can't
> >> find mechanics in our cities.
> >
> > So why are more Kawasakis not being built?
> >
> >
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park