[PRCo] Re: 46--line vs 49--line

[Jim Holland]

> raymond at nauticom.net wrote:

> Hello, if route 46 went to Mt Oliver via New Arlington to Arlington to 18th
> Street (top of hill) could in then turn out Brownsville Road thru the
> business district in Mt. Oliver and terminate and wye at Hill Top Car
> House. Was this Car House closed by then?

	Don't know about Hill Top  --  Carrick Car House closed in 1954.
	Think JFB answered this  --  someone pointed out that the street names
changed (sometime during this discussion) and I had forgotten that.  The
46--Brownsville did run to Brownsville at one time  --  until the name
change.
	And it therefore makes sense to change the route designation from
46--Brownsville to 49--Beltzhoover.

> What about wyeing at McKinley and
> Brownsville or looping at Carrick Car House? Doubt if any of this happened.

	Both are definite possibilities  --
		but not necessarily probabilities!!<GG>.

> Does anyone know if the 51 Bon Air ever ran thru Mt. Oliver down 18th
> Street to Carson and looped at 18th and 19th?

	This would be doubtful because of the switch configuration at
McKinley.  The 51-line was strictly single track with a turn both
inbound and outbound, but no crossover on Brownsville at this point.
	IF a car went to 18th//19th and returned, it would have to pass the
trailing turnout on Brownsville at McKinley and then change ends to run
back down Bon Air.
	When we talked about the 51-line before, didn't Don point out that the
Bion J.-Arnold report indicated that this might have run thru to
downtown??  Again, the inbound direction is easy  --  outbound requires
some fancy footwork!!<GGGGGGG>  So in all honesty, doubt that the
51-line was thru to downtown  --  might have been listed as a
possibility.

> Great subject and conversation.

> Ray

-- 
James B. Holland