[PRCo] Re: Route 7 routing to PRR station

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

Both the 7 and the 44 were "station" cars designed to bring riders from
the South side-P&LE or the North side to the PRR station.  They looped
Liberty , 12th, Penn, 11th.

Now adays we would call this an intermodal connection!

Harold Geissenheimer


Bob Rathke wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Funny you should ask about the route 7 routing to the PRR station.  As
> soon as I saw this e-mail string about Chatrles St., I started to look
> for information on its PRR station routing.  So far, I haven't found
> anything definite, but I'd guess that route 7 looped at the PRR station
> (11th and 12th Streets, like route 44?) until the early 1950's.  I
> recall seeing route 7 cars at the station in that era, but I didn't
> start to photograph trolleys at the PRR station until 1956; I have no
> photos of route 7 cars at the PRR station, so the routing was probably
> changed pre-1956, and 1953 is a good guess.
>
> I'll keep looking.
>
> Bob 5/19/01
>
> -----
>
>         D2on G indicated that as early as 1950, PRCo had rerouted the
> 7-line to
> loop 6th, Penn, Stanwyx, Fort Duquesne.  But I have a photo of 1780 at
> the outer terminal displaying 7-Charles & PA Sta. dated 1952.07.06.
> This is from Railroad Avenue Enterprizes and while photo dates can be
> ambiguous, all their dates have seemed realistic.  Do you have any info,
>
> Bob, on when the 7-line dropped the PRR station as its downtown loop?