Old PRCo route numbers

[Donald Galt]

On 23 Nov 99, at 11:54, John Swindler wrote:

> There's no reason to assume Library St. or Corey were peak hour routes to 
> the Triangle.  Demand would be to the mills, not downtown.
> 
Quite right, I missed that.

> And thought I read somewhere that 21 at one time did not cross the Allegheny 
> River but looped on northside.(???)

Aha! My 1930 street map says to take the 21 at Lacock and Anderson. And 
this would appear roughly to coincide with the 4.8-mile round trip distance 
for 125 - Nunnery Hill.

> 
> There was also a comment about 32 P&LE Transfer and Mt. Washington.  Wasn't 
> it 33-Shiloh that went up back of Mt. Washington, and where was "city" 
> terminal?  Did 33 go across Point Bridge or along Carson St to southside?  

Parkinson and others list 33 as Mount Washington via West End. This 
route ran on Virginia Avenue and Wyoming Street, and terminated on Bailey 
Avenue near the top of the Castle Shannon incline. I was of the impression 
that it might not have crossed the river - at least not after the advent of the 
40 - though I see Ed asserting that it ran over the Smithfield Street Bridge. 

As for the "Shiloh" route, the Arnold report lists 213A (Shiloh Street) 
together with 213 (Mount Washington via Tunnel). Sorry to keep harking 
back to the Arnold report, but hey, you go with what you've got!

A note of thanks to Herb Brannon for jogging the memory. "J&L Trippers" 
obviously stands for Jones & Loughlin. DUH!!!!!

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