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"Try the train, and save your tires" |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 16 09:03:35 2017 Southern Pacific billboard c. 1942. |
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Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'' |
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Posted by W.B. on Mon Oct 16 09:13:15 2017, in response to "Try the train, and save your tires", posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 16 09:03:35 2017. And wasn't it that which explained part of the delay of Third Avenue Transit streetcar lines' being converted to buses run by Surface Transportation in Manhattan and those parts of the Bronx that hadn't been converted aforehand? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 16 16:08:29 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by W.B. on Mon Oct 16 09:13:15 2017. Did you mean to post that in some other thread? |
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Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'' |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Oct 16 21:22:57 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 16 16:08:29 2017. I'm guessing such a campaign (tyres vs rails) was used to stave off the busification of third avenue streetcars... |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Oct 17 00:21:00 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 16 16:08:29 2017. Why do you say that? Clearly he means the need to save rubber for the war effort delayed the conversion of trolleys to buses. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 17 00:58:04 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by italianstallion on Tue Oct 17 00:21:00 2017. No, not clearly. Not at all.Never mind the Espee being hell and gone from NYC. |
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Posted by W.B. on Tue Oct 17 10:25:41 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by italianstallion on Tue Oct 17 00:21:00 2017. That was precisely my point . . . now, on point, did the 'Pennsy' and New York Central have their own versions of that campaign? |
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Posted by W.B. on Tue Oct 17 10:26:58 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Oct 16 21:22:57 2017. That was also the focal point of my query . . . the tires v. rails dichotomy posed in WWII. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 17 10:35:27 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by W.B. on Tue Oct 17 10:26:58 2017. That was early in the war. Probably a leftover billboard. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Oct 17 11:59:37 2017, in response to Re: ''Try the train, and save your tires'', posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 17 00:58:04 2017. tell yourself that, sure. |
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