Bob Diamond's Dreams of resurecting trolleys in the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn NY have once again been derailed

Sure sounds like a Dick Jensen story all over again, i.e. the individual leaves his junk/equipment on someone else's private property for decades, and finally when the property owner has had enough of dealing with the individuals junk, he simply "gets rid of it" by either giving it away or selling it for scrap.

Reads like a comedy of errors, with both parties pretty clueless and certainly wholly lacking in the ability to communicate.  Probably just as well those PCCs are going to someplace where they may actually have a future.

The entire ides of the Red Hook streetcar line was ludicrous from square one. A waste of time, money and effort. A streetcar in Staten Island from St. George to the Sailor's Snug Harbor would work. As would a line from the Indian Museum in lower Manhatten, down to South Ferry, thence up to the Southstreet Seaport and thence to Chinatown. Or on 42nd street from the Intrepid and the Jersey Ferry to Grand Central. I visited these PCC's and they were vandalized and rotting. Plus they were exposed to corrosive salt spray. Diamond lost 8 PCC's that were stored at the Brooklyn Navy yard that were scrapped in the recent past. Plus trolley poles and signals kept on the lot near the pier. Better to have at least one salvaged. I doubt anything other than trucks (if that) would be useable at this point. The concept was a money pit without merit. From nowhere to nowhere at warp speed.

The only important news here, is that the PCC cars were saved.