[PRCo] Re: Fwd: The elephant will never forget - Film collection, London Transport Museum

[Fred Schneider]

Thousands were in Connellsville for the end of West Penn.   The party-goers litterally tore Virginia Electric and Power apart on the last night.   Lancaster had a car full going to an amusement park on the last trip out at 11 PM ... No room to pick up the people coming back.  

I think it was common in the United States to see huge crowds on the last day.

But when was the last time we really had a last night in the United States?   El Paso in the early 1970s was yanked away under cover of darkness by the Mexicans.   Do we have to go back to St. Louis in the 1966, Chicago in 1958, Illinois Terminal in 1958, Dallas in 1956, Brooklyn in 1956, Cleveland in 1954, Milwaukee in 1958 ... I don't know what happened there.

But a lot of those shutdowns in the 1930s and 1940s were like losing an old friend.


On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Interesting is the London Transport method of transition from conduit to
> overhead. It looked to be faster and easier than the D.C. Transit method.
> Certainly better than being confined to the "pit" below the street surface.
> Seldom, if ever, would such a large crowd assemble anywhere in the United
> States to bid farewell to any mode of public transportation.
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> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 23:23, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> Subject: The elephant will never forget - Film collection, London Transport
>> Museum
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>> Every time this film appeared before, it would be deleted from YouTube for
>> copyright violation.   Now the London Transport Museum has put it out
>> themselves.
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>> This is a very dark version and you might want to set the brilliance of
>> your monitor to the max.   But it was professionally done and is one of the
>> finest London Transport videos available.   Best approach might be to buy a
>> DVD from the London Transport Museum (I have it on a VHS tape from them).
>> 
>> It was done in 1952 to document the last week of trams in the south of
>> London.   Great job.  Color would be nice but perhaps it's even better in
>> black and white because you can concentrate on the drama instead of the
>> color.
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>> The last tram in London
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>> http://www.ltmcollection.org/films/film/film.html?IXfilm=FLO.0009&_IXSESSION_=tvbpzDlWiTf
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> Herb Brannon
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