PRCo Fraction route 22/85 & where's the 87 & 94??? 66 line??

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

raymond at nauticom.net wrote:
> Did anyone notice the route 22/85 which
> crosses the sixth st bridge, then to liberty to sixth st to wylie ave? Is
> this a typo? Why would PRCo run a route from the hill district to Fineview?

	According to the book *PCC From Coast to Coast,* pgs 168-169, both the 22 
and 85 lines were based at Herron Hill Car House from ca. 1943-1951.  I notice 
that both the 22 lines and 22/85 are shown on that 1936 map.  It is possible that 
the only 22/85 cars operating were those pulling out of the car house to the 22 
line and those pulling in from the 22 line!

	The 87 Ardmore is not listed on the downtown map; was it a shuttle from 
Wilkinsburg to E. Pgh?

	The 95 Butler is listed but not the 94 Sharpsburg; was this a route 
change that took place with the advent of PCC cars - dropping the 95 and making 
the 94?

	The 66 line on Forbes sounds vaguely familiar; was this just a Forbes 
line?  What was the outer terminal?

	For some cities, this kind of *routing* was common - crosstown routing as 
opposed to dedicated radial.  In other words, a line might begin on the east side 
of town, run through downtown, and finish on the west side of town.  These routes 
had a single number or letter; they were not fraction lines.  Baltimore and Los 
Angeles are examples of this type of routing.  The route could be 13 or more 
miles long but that kind of route would be considered two different lines in 
Pittsburgh thus making each route maybe only six or seven miles long.  Imagine 
combining the Charleroi interurban with the 62 Trafford as one line - the result 
might be a line 50-60 miles one way!  Or Washington and 56 McKeesport, or 55 and 
13!  Imagine the long route combinations possible!

	And if only an interurban connection existed between PRCo and WP from 
Brownsville to Roscoe/Charleroi, there could have been clockwise and 
counterclockwise interurbans running Pittsburgh, Trafford, Irwin, Greensburg, 
Connellsville, Uniontown, Brownsville, Charleroi, to Pittsburgh!

-- 
James B. Holland
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