City PCCs on the Interurbans

[Robert E. Rathke]

Jim.

I have no answers to these questions, but a couple of observations on
recent topics:

1. After looking closely at the West Penn 1929 map, there is a caption
stating that the connecting line to PRC northwest of McKeesport is,
"operated by PRC."  In the two years (1936-38) that West Penn operated in
McKeesport in the PRC PCC era, there must have been a good chance that a
PCC found its way onto West Penn tracks.

2. Over the late PRC and early PAT years, there must have been many
occasions when cars operated on long-discontinued tracks and turnouts,
and I suspect that most of these were documented only if a railfan
happened to be around.  I recall being on North Avenue west of Federal
St. one afternoon in 1965 when there was a fire somewhere west of that
point, and PAT was wying the outbound 6 Brighton Rd. cars on Arch St. and
returning them to downtown.  The long-ago cut-back track on Arch St. was
only about one car-length long, and the catenary wasn't too well aligned,
so it took a lot of stopping and starting, plus a route foreman guiding
the trolley pole to get the cars turned.  Fortunately, I had my camera
along, and took pictures until normal service resumed on North Ave.

Bob Rathke 7/17

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 03:38:06 -0700 Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
writes:
>Greetings!
>
>	Had some coffee at work this evening and it has me going - at 
>the 
>typewriter so far!
>
>	Did any of the 1700 series city cars make it to Charleroi or 
>Washington and if so, what was the occasion?  I have a list of early 
>PERC 
>charters and that isn't indicated?
>
>	What about other city PCC cars making it down that far?
>
>-- 
>James B. Holland
>       PITTSBURGH RAILWAYS COMPANY (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 
>1953
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