1700 Series PCC's

[brathke at juno.com]

I took at least two photos of 1700s on 48-Arlington: 1740 on 4/1/64, and
1771 on 2/5/66.  I'm sure I have others, including at least one 1700 on
40-Mt. Washington in its final summer of 1966, but I'll have to search
for them.

I never saw a 1700 on 21-Fineview, and I probably photographed that route
more than any other.

Bob 3/14

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:26:52 -0500 Fred Schneider
<fschneider at dli.state.pa.us> writes:
>Just a few minor points ... While 1600 interurban cars were probably 
>used in
>the 1950s principally in rush hours, they were originally base-service
>vehicles on Washington.  There was at least one 1600 in base service 
>on the
>final day of service to Washington.  
>
>All of the assignment sheets I have show Charleroi and Washington had 
>no
>1600s, so any that were used had to run out of Tunnel.  
>
>If I said 1690-1699 were fitted for Fineview, I apologize.  I thought 
>I said
>some of the 1690s but we often find the typewriter produces something
>totally different from what we thought we typed.  I never saw a 1700 
>on
>Arlington Avenue but that is not to say that they did not run there.  
>Nor
>did I ever see a 1700 on Mount Washington.  But I did see 1707 on 
>Fineview
>on a fantrip which I organized in July 1958.  
>
>I would suspect that PCC assignments to routes were more often than 
>not
>simply a function of which cars were available in the barn.  That 
>would mean
>that GE 1200s, GE 1500s, and GE 1700s might appear in the 1950s on 23, 
>25,
>26,27, 28, 31, and  34 if for no other reason than they were assigned 
>to
>Ingram Car House.  There would never be 1700s on routes 2 or 3 simply
>because none were assigned to Millvale Car House, but they would have 
>run
>over East Ohio Street because they were delivered to Millvale.  
>
>As the number of Car Houses diminished, the variety available for any 
>given
>route increased.  I must admit I was surprised when I saw Westinghouse 
>cars
>at Keating in the middle 1960s but those were the cars the PAT 
>rostered.   
>

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