[PRCo] Re: Sidings Added on Busy Pittsburgh Line.......

[Jim Holland]

Hi Roger!

	YES  --  what you say is true!
	Inbound Library and Drake cars took an electric point-on-crossover
(X-overs used for double end cars were almost always trailing turnouts
and would be safer this way) just north of Martin Villa and ran on the
outbound track for a short distance before turning into the Castle
Shannon training loop and the 38A to Mt.-Lebanon for a return to the
barn.
	And 37-Shannon trippers scheduled to return to the barn over the
38-line would back from the 37-loop to the Training Loop and then take
the 38A and 38-line back to the barn.
	I have first-hand knowledge of operations in the PM-rush - saw and did
that  m-a-n-y  times.  It seems logical that the reverse happened in the
AM-rush but I don't have any experience with that.

> ROGER Jenkins wrote:

> I thought that PRCo rerouted cars during the rush hours thru  Mt Lebanon
> , sending some outbound cars deadhead that way in the AM rush to prevent
> inbound cars from bunching up at turnouts on the Overbrook section
> waiting for more cars than actually were needed on the interurban. The
> reverse was thought by me to be in effect in the evening rush hour where
> inbound cars were diverted via Mt Lebanon. This was related to me when I
> rode the line in   57-58 by a motorman on the car I was on. Is this fact
> or fiction ?? Sounds plausible and a way around the Overbrook bottleneck
> !

-- 
James B. Holland

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