Scheduling Operators -- Charleroi & Washington

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:

> About the southern end of the system I cannot say, however, even at South
> Hills Car House, in the 1970s, there were beds in the second floor of the
> administration building for operators. Usually they were only used if someone
> got tired and wanted to rest during the period between the two pieces of a
> split run. Older operators, at that time, said the bunkhouse, or whatever it
> may have been called, was used normally when an operator came in late off a
> run and had to take another run out in the early morning. 

As I recall, some of the younger motormen during the mid '70's and early
'80's had "trolley groupies", or young female "motorman fans." Without
getting too graphic, my overactive imagination could come up with other
uses for that second floor..... :-) Ken J.