Shiloh Street (was: PRCo route numbers revisited)

[Donald Galt]

On 8 Dec 99, at 12:57, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> What is that Shiloh St. route? I never saw a mention of it and I can't
> locate it on the Museum map. 
> 

Bob, possibly others, like me, came up blank on that one.

However, looking at the map in light of your repeated query, I can suggest a 
possibility:

When Mount Washington via West End was intact, there was a connection, 
west to south, at Virginia and Shiloh. So it would have been possible to run 
a service via the West End, Woodruff, Virginia, Southern to SH Jct or vice 
versa.

This would, of course, be effectively a short working of route 33 (206) rather 
than of route 40 (213) as the numbering would seem to indicate, but it would 
offer some operating convenience. 

The credibility of this hypothesis depends somewhat on knowing whether 
the Shiloh street service ceased after the closure of route 33. In any case, 
no short turn Mount Washington service would ever have been possible with 
PCC cars - except for this one, that is, had the 33 lasted into the PCC era.

Don