Brill Coaches

[Robert E. Rathke]

I have a few B&W photos from the 50's that show the Brill buses in views
that are mainly of trolleys.

The Brills were used on the City View shuttle which ran from near my home
on Spring Hill, through City View, and over the East St. Bridge to
Charles St. where they connected with the 8-Perrysville trolley line.  
The City View shuttle was discontinued at - or around - the time  when
the Spring Hill bus line was extended from its loop out to Northview
Heights, although this point was about a half-mile short of the
8-Perrysville connection.  I believe this happened near the end of the
PRC era.

I remember riding the Brill buses on the Spring Hill bus line on weekends
between 1957-60.  I also remember them being small, noisy and with a
floor-shift transmission.

Bob 11/6
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The 21st Century starts on January 1, 2001.  Just a reminder.

On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 14:17:48 EST "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
writes:
>
>>From: Kenneth and Tracie Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>Subject: Brill Coaches
>>Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 09:11:41 +0000
>>
>> > Wished I had taken some
>> > slides of those convoys of small ACF-Brill shuttle buses leaving 
>>Clearview
>> > Loop!
>>
>>If you are referring to those short orange Brills, I have a few shots 
>of
>>them scattered within my photo collection, including a shot of a
>>derelict Brill taken inside the small carhouse at the end of Route 
>85.
>>Ken J.
>
>
>Yes, those are the ones.  There is this vague mental image of the 
>light on 
>Washington Rd. turning green and a string of three of them taking off 
>on 
>their appointed shuttle runs.  However, I never turned my lens in 
>their 
>direction (nor towards any of the independent bus
>company fleets).  Its another one of those "should of done", "didn't 
>do", 
>"maybe not all that important anyway".  Besides, believe someone is 
>already 
>putting photos of the pre-PAT buses on the internet!
>
>John S.
>
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