October 29, 1957 San Diego's last PCC car, air-electric 528, was purchased from the San Diego Mill Supply Company to the local Parks Department and placed on static display at Delmar Park next to a retired Southern Pacific steam locomotive. With another PCC car, 508, destined for the Orange Empire Traction Museum, the remaining 6 cars were still at San Diego Mill Supply Company before they were cut up in 1958.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? October 29, 1961 Washington's remaining PCC cars were given a reprieve due to a strike against General Motors which delayed deliveries of new buses to replace the cars on the capital's last 4 routes.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky
Mark and friends:
Good morning, all, and thank you, Mark. I read each day's posting "religiously," and each day become more and more disgusted with what this country allowed the Conspiracy (the road builders; automobile/truck builders/tire and rubber companies and oil and gas companies) to do to literally destroy America's street and electric railways, led by SCUM such as Jesse Haugh in L. A. and Mayor LaGuardia and Robert Moses in N. Y. (And please don't be offended by my use of that term: for them, that was a compliment)
It was not just the ethical crimes which they committed, but--and now think about this--we are spending literally billions nationwide to restore no small amount in no few locales of what the Conspiracy was allowed to destroy.
Again, Mark, thank you.
On Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 07:40:36 AM EDT, Mark Tomlonson via <tomlonson=
[email protected]> wrote:
October 29, 1938 The interurban Cincinnati & Lake Erie's Columbus Division, running from Dayton to Columbus via Springfield is abandoned.
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Mark Tomlonson
