Route "#s" Etc

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

> Donald Galt wrote:

> > Which brings up another point: I assume that 10 and 15 cars changed signs
> > at West View terminus, right?

	Yes - the 10-15 operated just the opposite of the way the interurbans
operated on Sunday - an outbound 10 became an inbound 15 and an outbound
15 became an inbound 10 - but the 10-15 did this on a daily basis,
obviously!  And I am sure you are aware that they both had different
downtown loops.

> Jim Holland wrote:

>         IF the operator remembered!
> 
>         The Drake and Library lines were *interlined* on Sunday to reduce
> overhead - this way it took only 3 cars to operate the two lines as
> opposed to 4 cars if cars were dedicated to one line.  An inbound
> Library car became an outbound Drake and an inbound Drake became an
> outbound Library.  Drake left downtown on the hour, Library on the
> half-hour.  Shannon residence had 30 minute headways.  I have many
> photos of cars at Library with a Drake sign already displayed so I know
> the photo was made on Sunday.  This was the official place to change the
> route sign!
> 
> James B. Holland
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James B. Holland
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        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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