[PRCo] Re: some mon valley shots

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Actually that is a bit closer to the truth than the NCL shibboleth.  To the 
extent that EB&S owned interest in streetcar lines, GE did own them.  More 
appropriate to say that GE controlled many streetcar lines, through EB&S. 
So that one has some truth to it.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:50 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: some mon valley shots


> You mean just like General Electric owned streetcar lines?
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> On Sep 15, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Dwight Long wrote:
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>> Fred
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>> Perhaps he also believes that NCL “done em in.”
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>> Dwight
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>> From: Fred Schneider
>> Sent: Friday, 14 September, 2012 11:38
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: some mon valley shots
>> Oh, one of those kind.   Just because the buses were more economical and 
>> preserved free enterprise a little longer than would have happened with a 
>> heavy investment in rails, substations, copper wires and owning your own 
>> rights-of-ways, they still believe that economics 101 is false.
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>> On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
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>>> Scott Beveridge is a reporter for the Washington Observer-Reporter.  He
>>> repeatedly insists during interviews that the bus companies put the 
>>> trolleys
>>> out of business, and won't listen when the facts are explained.
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
>>> Schneider
>>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 10:39 AM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: some mon valley shots
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>>> The PCC looks like a bad print from a Bob Brown negative . a commercial
>>> machine made (what you see is what you get) print.   The negative was
>>> perfectly OK.
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>>> On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
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>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_beveridge/7983802853
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>>>> and see also
>>>> https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/r270/523241_972537076092_5
>>>> 37767445_n.jpg which I home you can. Same guy. His comment is
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>>>> They have some cool old trolley photos here at the Greater Monessen
>>>> Historical Society. This one was taken in Charleroi, circa 1920.
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>>>> (from
>>>> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=972537076092&set=a.60265498776
>>>> 2.2145700.35106432&type=1&theater)
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>>>> Derrick
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