[PRCo] Re: some mon valley shots

[Fred Schneider]

And GM didn't own bus lines either, it controlled through ownership of NCL.



On Sep 16, 2012, at 12:43 AM, Dwight Long wrote:

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> Fred
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> 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.
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> Dwight
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> ----- 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
> 
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>> 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.”
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> -----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
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> (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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