(rshsdepot) OT: one other thing on traction demise...

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

In late 1920's the major railroads brought various suits to have the 
traction concerns divest themselves of their own owned power 
sources/distribution...I forget the reasons, I guess they were some sort 
of octopus or something controlling a city's power and its 
transportation....but they won and since this came about just as the 
Great Depression started this helped kill off a lot of traction...made 
local systems go under to where they had to be taken over by 
municipalities or abandoned...I think this was meant to go after 
competing interurban lines....I am vague on these details and am not 
sure I know how to find this in a search...

Others were involved in the law suits along with the railroads, I don't 
remember who..

Paul

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