Car Assignments -- 65/55 line --- Gleanings From *Trolley Fare*

[John Swindler]

65 trips extended to E. Pittsburgh


>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  Assignments  --  65/55 line   ---   Gleanings  From  *Trolley 
>Fare*
>Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:28:21 -0700
>
>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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>

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