<div dir="ltr">Yes, when Daria Washington started with <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.1" style class="">PATransit</span> the female roster consisted of her, Hattie <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.2" style class="">Bartosik</span> and Cora <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.3" style class="">Sypolt</span>. Daria began at East Liberty (where Cora <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.4" style class="">Sypolt</span> was an operator) in the class ahead of my training class. She transferred to <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.6" style class="">SHJct</span> (where Hattie <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.7" style class="">Bartosik</span> was an operator) a few months after I did. Daria Washington and I had the infamous "meet" on the single track on <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.8" style class="">Warrington</span> Avenue which was caused by the unwillingness of <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.9" style class="">PATransit</span> to keep the overhead contacts and the <span tabindex="-1" id=":fah.11" style class="">Nachod</span> systems in general in top operating condition. By the late 1970s there were quite a number of women operators.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Daria Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org" target="_blank">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Herb mentioned this woman 15 years ago. The Port Authority hired her when I<br>
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