Car Barns & Car Assignments

[John Swindler]

PERC (later PRMA, now PTM) would publish car assignment listings 
periodically in Trolley Fare, or whatever it was called in late 50s-early 
60s.  If this practice went back to early 50s, perhaps someone with more 
gray hair then I might have a copy.

John S.

>From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: PRCo -- WP -- JTC -- The Big *3* <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: Car  Barns  &  Car  Assignments
>Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:48:03 -0800
>
>Greetings!
>
>	It is definitely a given that car assignments to various Car Houses
>frequently changed for a variety of reasons, yet it is interesting to
>note and / or speculate on some of the equipment assignments.
>	From photo identifications, it appears as though PCCs 1775-1784 were at
>Keating in the very early 1950s and Ingram had 1795-1799.  Did
>Manchester or Millvale ever have any 17s assigned to them?
>	I have a *possible-listing* of car assignments in the early 1950s but
>Millvale (closed 1952) and Plummer (closed 1954) are not on the list.
>This compilation has 1775-1792 at Keating with 1793-1799 at Ingram.
>With the closure of Ingram, Keating then had 25 of the 17s and
>*probably* all the equipment here was GE equipped.
>	Again, for the early 1950s, Manchester is listed as having only 25-10s,
>8-14s, and 10-16s.  Even with 20-Rebecca gone, that still leaves 4 good
>lines to dispatch and one would think that some 17s might go to the
>13-line at least - neighborhood values (like the best cars were to go
>out on Mt.Lebanon!!)  <VBG>
>
>James B. Holland
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