[PRCo] Re: carhouses & connections

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Fri May 4 06:37:32 EDT 2001


> Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

>     Unfortunately, I do not have PCC From Coast to Coast in my library as of
> yet.  (I know, slap my hands) so the question of carhouses goes unanswered.
> To sweeten the pot:   How many carhouses were there?  What was their
> location?  How many are left and what are their uses today?

Here are the Car Houses of 1945 and the year they closed:::::::

	Carrick - 1954
	Craft Ave - 1967
	Charleroi - 1953
	Glenwood - 1961
	Homewood - 1960 (still did heavy repair on PCCs after 1960.)
	Herron Hill - 1951
	Highland Park - 1954
	Ingram - 1959
	Keating - 1965
	Millvale - 1952
	Manchester - 1959
	Plummer Street - 1954
	Rankin - dead storage until 1967
	South Hills - 198x
	Tylerdale - 1953

-- 
James B. Holland

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