Car Assignment Questions for the Hard Core

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	If I am not mistaken, Glenwood shut down before Keating (in PRCo
days(?)) and many of the Glenwood cars were based at Tunnel as were the
routes.  Funny to see a 56-McKeesport car heading down Smithfield!
	Information that I have indicates that South Hills Yard (SHY) could
hold 169-cars from mid 1954 forward.  Don't know if that was crush load
where even loop trackage like Palm Garden would be included for storage,
but I don't think that is the case.  So in reality, SHY could hold more
than 169-cars.

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> Yes, Tunnel CB was crowded after September, 1965.  And Craft CB was still
> in service until January, 1967.

> Bob 9/12

> -------------------------------------

> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:20:59 EDT HRBran99 at aol.com writes:
> > In a message dated 9/12/00 2:08:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > kjosephson at sprintmail.com writes:

> > << If not, why
> >  were they on Route 39? Ken J. >>

> > Keating closed and everything was housed at S. Hills. I remember
> > older
> > operators telling me how crowded S. Hills was during that time
> > period. I
> > should think that after the consolidation of Keating and S. Hills
> > that it no
> > longer mattered what type car was placed on what route.

James B. Holland

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