Trolley--Car Abandonments --- Gleanings From *Trolley Fare*

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Gleanings  From  *Trolley  Fare*
		August--1965

"*Effective September 5, 1965:*"

	"With the installation of the fall pick on Sept. 5, the axe will be
swung on several trolley routes, one car house, and one (bletch!) bus
garage."
	"Trafford Bus Garage will close and the routes and buses will be split
between Homewood and Homestead Garages."
	"Keating Car House will close, to be quickly torn down and replaced by
a bus garage."
	"Trolley routes 8, 10, 15, 77/54, and 65/55 will be replaced by buses. 
Routes 6 and 13 will be thru-routed at all times and that part of 13
from High Bridge Loop IB to Brighton and California will be abandoned. 
This route will have trippers operating to the 6 and 14 loops using
those respective signs.  Thru cars will be extended past Perrysville and
Bascom to serve a housing development out that way."
	"Two bus routes will attempt to replace 10 and 15, but by the looks of
some of those cow paths that pass for roads beside the prw, its going to
be a rocky trail."
	"The bus to replace the 77/54 will be the 54C, and will use the new
Air-Cond. GM buses.  The present Oakland-South Side 54C shuttle will be
eliminated, but the new route will still run only to the South Side. 
The 77/54 trackage might be usable for fantrips, but no promises."
	"The 65/55 will be eliminated by simply running the 55B Homestead-E.
Pgh. bus all the time, as sufficient buses will be abailable by that
time.  This route will be missed most by the fans, as its center lane
single track is unique among trolley lines in this country.  8 will be
missed too, that stretch alongside Riverview Pari is particularly
photogenic, as are 10 and 15 as well."
	"After 9-5-65, it will no longer be possible to ride a trolley to an
amusement park in the USA."
	"So you see fellow fans, the curtain is falling fast on America's last
big trolley system.  The survival, for the time being, of 13 and 21 is
due only to the lack of funds to buy more buses."

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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