South Hills Junction-38 car assignments

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Charlie Palmer lived on Mayfair Drive.  Don't know about Fitzgerald,
Phillips or whoever ran the gas company.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of John
Swindler
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:58 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: RE: South Hills Junction-38 car assignments


Vigrass, Bill wrote

>Re: Car assignments.  Some time ago one of you mentioned that PRCo assigned
>its better cars to lines serving higher income areas. . . .
>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.
>
>

How about:  Where did Pittsburgh Ry and Philadelphia Co. upper management
live?  Someone once mentioned Mt. Lebanon.  That could be verified by
checking old city directories, which are on microfilm at Carnegie Library.
Just a thought.

John S.

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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
>

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