South Hills Junction

[Fred Schneider]

I will have to look at the car scrap dates, but my memory has it that
all the salvagable cars were converted to snow scrapers and tow cars by
1940.  I thought the last high floors were out of service in 1937-1939.
I do believe that route 38 or 42 had high floor cars later than most
routes; the end of MU and trailer service was about 1937.   I'll have to
look at the scrap list.

Memory is terrible ... I think PRC assigned a good chunk of the 1000
series PCC cars to route 38 simply because of the competition from
Enrico Bigi's buses in that Bower Hill area.  Mount Lebanon was a high
income area ... if the buses were not enough of a problem, the
automobiles were.  Pretty much the same as Wayne Avenue in Philadelphia
when it was still a high income city area.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Vigrass, Bill [mailto:billvigrass at hillintl.com]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 9:28 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org; 'Donald Galt'
Subject: RE: South Hills Junction


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