PRCo ({[bus]}) Roster --- Gleanings From *Trolley Fare*

[brathke at juno.com]

Some comments on the bus roster:

- The Mack buses delivered in October, 1957 were assigned to the Spring
Hill and Spring Garden routes immediately after trolleys were
discontinued on routes 1 and 5, but they were soon replaced with 1950's
GM buses, and by 1960 the Small Brill buses were running on these routes
on weekends. The Macks were a bit slow climbing Spring Hill, but they
shouldn't have had any trouble on flat Spring Garden.   The Macks were
also used on routes 2 and 3.

- PRC's November, 1960 bus was supposed to be the very last of the
old-look buses built by GM.  I assume PRC got a good deal on them because
the new fishbowl buses were operating for some independent Pittsburgh bus
companies (e.g., Horrell Transportation Co. of Mt. Troy) since mid-1960. 
PRC didn't get its first firbowls until around 1962; they were called
"Downtowners" and operated mainly on the East End express routes.

- PRC's 279 buses in 1961 probably had the capacity of 200 PCC's,
especially considering that about 80 of those buses were small Brills.

Bob 10/2

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On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 17:09:22 -0700 Jim Holland <PGHPCC at pacbell.net>
writes:
> Greetings!
> 
> 	Gleanings  From  *Trolley  Fare*
> 		March--1965
> 
> "Just to get your record straight here is the Pittsburgh Railways 
> Co.
> Bus Roster."
> 
> SERIES	BUILDER		DATE DELIVERED
> 
> 100-114	GM		APRIL 1945
> 115-133	GM		JULY 1947
> 150-193	ACF BRILL	JANUARY 1949
> 370-393	ACF BRILL	JANUARY 1949
> 45-59	ACF BRILL	SEPTEMBER 1951
> 200-229	GM		MAY 1952
> 230-249	GM		JANUARY 1953
> 250-273	GM*		DECEMBER 1953
> 274-288	GM*		AUGUST 1956
> 289-317	GM*		JUNE 1959
> 60-69	MACK*		OCTOBER 1957
> 70-83	MACK*		SEPTEMBER 1958
> 501-519	GM#*		NOVEMBER 1960
> 
> *These coaches have air springs
> #These coaches will not be paid off until 1968
> 
> 	If I am fingering correctly, that is 279 motor coaches to 
> start 1961!
> 
> James B. Holland
> 
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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