Trolley Line Conversions --- Gleanings From *Trolley Fare*

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Gleanings  From  *Trolley  Fare*
		March--1965

	"Good news for all Trolley Fans was announced at the PAT's February
Board meeting, when a capital improvement program was announced for the
next three years.  This effectively postponed some of the announced
trolley conversions from the spring to the fall of this year."
	"PAT is applying to the Feceral Housing and Home Finance Agency for a
grant of two thirds of the cost of a $22.5 million improvement program,
in three installments over the next three years.  This is for 400 new
buses and 5 garages.  The first year 1965 asks for 180 buses of which 56
are to replace streetcars, mainly on the North Side.  Keating Car House
will be demolished and a new garage built.  In 1966 64 buses are
earmarked for streetcar replacement, presumably of much of the East End,
and in 1967 41 buses will take over the remainder of the East End and
parts of the South Hills."
	"PAT has not got to find $7.5 million as one third of the program, then
has to get the program approved by the HHFA, and then order the buses. 
John W. Dameron estimated that with everything going smoothly the first
buses could arrive at the earliest in July.  But I'll be very surprized
if anything arrives before fall, and so the proposed abandonments will
be delayed for several months.  (Dameron had previously announced that
he would have Munhall free of trolleys by mid-April, Wilkinsburg free of
trolleys by mid-May, and the North Side all converted by July.)"

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
    To e-mail privately, please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/