Okay Scott, I think I know where you're coming from. I started riding the rapid as a daily commuter from the East Side to St. Ignatius High School on the West Side in 1957. Later on, I worked part time as a traffic checker for CTS while I was a college student at John Carroll. As far as I'm concerned, there was no better transit in the nation than Cleveland in the 1950s and it achieved many firsts during that period. You probably know why it never reached its full potential, but that's a sadder tale for another time. As far as the aesthetics of the original St. Louis Car "Bluebirds" themselves, they were allowed to deteriorate over the decades to disgraceful hulks. I do have some pix of the rapid in better days as well of some models i've made of representative CTS equipment over the years you might get a kick out of . I'm afraid I must agree with the comment about RTA- what a colossal disappointment.
|
|
