South Hills Junction

[Vigrass, Bill]

Re: Car assignments.  Some time ago one of you mentioned that PRCo assigned
its better cars to lines serving higher income areas.  That made sense from
a marketing viewpoint, if not politically correct today.  They didn't worry
about that then.  I had been told by my friend who lived on Bower Hill Road
in Mt. Lebanon (just beyond the loop) that during WWII that high floor two
man cars were used as trippers on the #38.  It now occurs to me that these
cars had transverse seats and equalized trucks, so probably rode better than
the low floor cars with their single spring arch bar trucks.  Whatdayathink?
Bill Vigrass.

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	From:  Donald Galt [SMTP:galtfd at att.net]
	Sent:  Friday, November 19, 1999 5:16 PM
	To:  pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
	Subject:  RE: South Hills Junction

	On 19 Nov 99, at 8:05, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:
	> 
	> Don is right, I was questioning the map I posted, not quoting Jim.
I need to
	> work on separating Quotes.
	> 
	Probably true, not that any of us is a shining light in this
respect.

	Frequently I experience deja vu in e-mail - the above instance was
an 
	example: I could have sworn that I had read the remark in question
before 
	and was surprised when a careful search proved me wrong. Such 
	misperception may be partly a result of the sheer volume and
rapidity of 
	correspondence.

	Anyway, Bob, this exchange has produced the benefit of making me
look 
	carefully into your SHJ page. A fine job: I commend your project and
your 
	gathering all those pictures into one place, with captions.

	D2