PERC PRCo Fan Trip
mrb190
mrb190+ at pitt.edu
Tue Feb 20 11:09:22 EST 2001
Wow. A photo opportunity stop at Duquesne Gardens siding, and yet, I have
never seen any photos of this location. I recall it was still around in the
sixties, but it was usually chained up.
Jim Holland wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> PERC PRCo Fan Trip
>
> "AND DON'T FORGET our wintertime PRC marathon trip Sunday
> FEBRUARY--15 using car 1700 (with or without ventilators) on all West
> End lines (to be abandoned next Spring), and rt. 94 (for which
> abandonment has also been approved) plus various and sundry other (many)
> lines.....as long as the wheels don't wear out. Trip will leave Tunnel
> barn at 8.30-AM EST, 4th and Smithfield (downtown) 8.35, and return to
> Tunnel (the Lord willing) at 5.15. Lunch stop in Oakland (sorry, no
> diner on this car); photo stops (many) on right-of-way and single track;
> carbarn stops at Glenwood (to see museum cars 3487 and 4398) and Craft;
> stops at Duquesne Gardens siding and Arch St. wye. Fare on car $4.00."
>
> 1959.02.15 -- 1700 -- 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34/31, 55, 56, 65, 67, 71,
> 73, 96, 98. --Jim
>
> P.E.R.C. *Trolley Fare* Vol V #10, February 1959.
> =========================================
>
> James B. Holland
>
> Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), 1930 -- 1950
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