SHJ updated, including Bob Schmidt story

[John Swindler]

Somewhat latter, but during 1960-61-62 Labor Day weekend, cars were every 5 
minutes.  There was no attempt to coordinate with the three regular cars 
maintaining hourly service to Library and Drake.  That 5 min. headway was 
for Sunday and Labor Day Monday.

John S.

>From: Fred Schneider <fschneider at dli.state.pa.us>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'"  
><pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: RE: SHJ updated, including Bob Schmidt story
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:40:08 -0500
>
>I have a photo of the Castle Shannon yard ... late 1940s or early 1950s ...
>Labor Day weekend ... jammed with yellow cars and a few PCCs.  They had to
>keep those South Park (Library) extra cars somewhere.  So we had the loop
>above the junction and the materials yard at Shannon.  Where did they keep
>all the men?  And who out there has first hand experience regarding the
>number of cars that were dispatched to Library on the holiday?   Did anyone
>actually save a traffic department order covering one of those weekends?
>
>		-----Original Message-----
>		From:	Jim Holland [mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net]
>		Sent:	Thursday, February 24, 2000 5:52 PM
>		To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>		Subject:	Re: SHJ updated, including Bob Schmidt story
>
>		Greetings!
>
>		Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:
>
>		> Greetings:
>
>		> Just to let you know that I made an update to the South
>Hills Junction web
>		> page last night.
>		> It includes some input from new list member Bob Schmidt
>		> but not his pictures, they will be on the next update.
>
>			Great to read about someone else who has first hand
>knowledge of
>		activities on PRCo.  The upper loop account for dispatching
>cars as
>		County Fair Trippers is quite interesting.
>
>		> I added an article
>		> on the interlocking from the 1940 Transit Journal
>
>			THANKS!  I have the *Traction Heritage* article but
>it is nice to have
>		the *complete* article!
>
>			Was not able to access one picture; got the
>following message:  **Not
>		Found  The requested URL /~dietrich/SHJ/fws1.htm was not
>found on this
>		server.  Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.voicenet.com Port 80**
>
>		> Go see and enjoy. >>
>http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/default.htm
>
>		James B. Holland
>		------- -- ---------
>		        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 --
>June of 1953
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