Car Assignments -- 65/55 line --- Gleanings From *TrolleyFare*

[mrb190]

I don't see where anyone answered your question here (LOTS of emails from the list
to read!  This is great!  No complaints from me), so I'll give it a shot...

65/55 was instituted after route 55's trackage from town to 8th Ave. and Amity was
abandoned in July 1964.  So the 65's were then extended into East Pittsburgh from
their usual loop near the Rankin Bridge.     I suppose with the private right of
way in Braddock, PAT hung on to this route for a little longer + if route 65 was
to continue, the only trackage it had to get back to any car house was via the
Rankin Bridge.

Matt

Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>         Gleanings  From  *Trolley  Fare*
>                 February--1965
>
>         "The Tunnel 1600's that had been at Craft for a while for use on 65/55
> have now been partly  [??partly--which parts??!!]  returned to the South
> Hills.  Only 1666, 1670, and 1673--1674 remain at Craft.  The reason
> hasn't been any reduction in service on 65, but instead the application
> of 65 signs to the rollers of most of the Craft original 1600s
> (1601--1605, 1607, 1609, 1610, 1612) and to at least one 1500, namely
> 1504.  1775 had also recently been working out of Craft, and had been
> seen on 65/55 with a home-made sign stuck between the gladd and the
> rollsign."
>
>         Was this an actual route at this time - 65/55 - or is it just a method
> of stating 2-different lines?
>
> James B. Holland
>
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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