[PRCo] Re: Gleaning from Trolley Fare - the BLUE-GRAY etc. Paint Scheme

[Jim Holland]

Matt!
	Maybe you are thinking of the photo on pg.07 of Smith's book  *Touring
Pgh by Trolley*  where we see 1797--57Glenwood and 1767--67-line.  These
were the first 2-cars painted in the ({[pat--({[gray]})]})!!  And 1797
was definitely used on a fantrip  --  and it could have been for this
photo!!
	Car-1797 was a  ({[GE]})  North Side car and Keating did not close
until 1965, is that correct??

> mrb190 wrote:

> Didn't cars start to get paint in the new "PAT color schemes" even before the
> takeover?   I ask because I remember seeing a photograph of a blue-gray
> -white  red-belt car on Second Avenue with a "56 McKeesport" destination
> sign.  And since 56 ended its run prior to the PAT takeover, I wonder if
> somehow PAT funds were being used to start painting the cars?        OR -
> perhaps the photo I saw was a fan trip where someone flipped the destination
> sign to a now non-existent trolley route.

> Matt

>> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

>> The date was the month it was SUPPOSED to be out, not necessarily when it
>> appeared.

>>> brathke at juno.com wrote::

>>> PAT took over on March 1, 1964...at least two months after the psychic
>>> editor of Trolley Fare wrote this item.

>>>> Jim Holland wrote:

>>>>         Gleanings  From  *Trolley  Fare*
>>>>                 	   January--1965

>>>> "Pat has arranged to build track and overhead on West Liberty Avenue at
>>>> McFarland Road in Dormont this spring at an estimated cost of $19,300.
>>>> This will eliminate the present single track working where the
>>>> now-defunct 38 joints the 42 line.  The 42/38, 42/38A, 35 and 36 are the
>>>> routes suggested for retention in the Pittsburgh Area Transportation
>>>> Study.  They will be around until well into the 1970's."

-- 
James B. Holland
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