About Those Tee Shirts/Route Numbers

[John Swindler]

>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: About Those Tee Shirts
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 02:25:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Kenneth Josephson wrote:
>
> > The same routes came together after 1984, though the 49 became the 52, 
>the 42/38 and 35 and 36 all became part of the 42. There were still
>
>Actually, the 35/36 became 47 runs. 42 was "via Beechview" or "red line" 
>and 47 was "via Overbrook" or "blue line".
>
>-D
>
>

Overbrook's been gone or suspended for so long, had also forgotten about 47- 
"blue lines".

Even earlier, in very broad terms going back to amalgamation of 33 +/- 
companies in early 1960s:

36/37/38/39/40 are Banksville Road corridor services

41/42/43/44/45 are West Liberty Ave. corridor services

46/47/48/49/50 are Saw Mill Run corridor services

It was an attempt to bring some sort of order out of a very messy and 
cumbersome situation.  For instance, with West Liberty routes, 41 is local 
route to "Golden Triangle", 43 would be an express, and 42 is a "through" or 
limited or ???? service.  44 would be a local bus, and 45 would be local 
service in outlying community.

Thus there was 41A/41B/41C/41D local buses to "downtown".

42S eventually became light rail line through Beechview to South Hills 
Village.

43B and 43C were to be the Bower Hill Express and Cedar Boulevard Express.

44A/B/C/D/E were shuttle routes in Mt. Lebanon area

45A was (or was to be) Heidelberg-Kane Hospital

For trivia buffs, route number index dated 11 May 1964 from PAT's Transit 
Division lists following renumberings (which never took place):

42A  Dormont-Mt Lebanon (rail)
42B  Mt. Washington (rail)
42C  Brookline (rail)
42D  Library-Shannon (rail)
42E  Drake-Shannon (rail)
42F  Shannon (rail)

47A Carrick via Tunnel
47B Knoxville
47C Arlington
47D Beltzhoover

51A Carson St.  to be operated (was this to be PRC 50?)
51H Carrick     to be operated  (was this to be PRC 53?)

55N Munhall-Lincoln Place  to be operated (was this PRC 65)


Things change over time.  Also not sure what "to be operated" implies.  
Could be renumbering of rail routes or renumbering upon bus conversion?  
Probably not important anyway.

Again, for what its worth, this is just some trivia from 1964 on how numbers 
came to be what they are.  It's from a PAT document which I guess I need to 
forward to the PTM archives.

John

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