Bye Bye vintage trolley

Neal Berlin, a long time TriMet employee and former trolley motorman, said both TriMet and Portland Streetcar would rather be rid of the little rolling landmarks.
"The vintage trolley has suffered from benign neglect and malicious indifference,” said Berlin. "The powers that be hate them. It's like trying to disown your past.”
“As soon as Bill Naito died, things went into the tank,” Berlin said. “"He's the man that saved and restored Old Town. That’s what this is about."“Once they’re gone, they won’t come back,” he said. ““People will not realize what they’ve lost, until it’s lost.”
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