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Originally Posted by Wig-Wag
There were other issues too.
To roughly quote professors George Hilton and John F. Due from their book The Electric Interurban Railways in America - "By the 1920's the privacy and convenience of the automobile was beginning to make streetcar riding seem utilitarian and a little grubby."
Another phenomena was discovered in the 1970's. For many people the only time they had exclusively to themselves during the work week was the commute in their car.
Cheers,
Jack
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A slightly off-topic footnote, file under "how times have changed":
A good friend and mentor in college was the editor of the Stanford University Press. In those days the Press operated under a loss goal, the idea being they were to publish worthy books that were not economically viable. Unaware of the legions of train fans in the country he accepted Hilton & Due's book, which immediately went off the charts and got him called on the carpet in front of the Trustees. He always referred to it as "that damned trolley car book."
Today, of course, any university press would be happy to have a best-seller.
Cheers,
Earl