[PRCo] Re: Boarding buses and trains

[John Swindler]

>Jim Holland added:
>
>Good Morning!!
>
> > Harold Geissenheimer wrote:
>
> > Pgh Railways had both departure clocks at the end of the line
> > loops and headway recorders on the throats approaching downtown.
>
> > The clocks were designed to keep a motorman from leaving early.
>
>	PRCo had Arrival and Departure clocks on most of the lines.   On the 
>42-Dormont, the arrival clock was outbound nearside Biltmore, no passenger 
>stop.   Inbound, the 42-car left the wye and stopped about 2-3 car-lengths 
>down the hill.   I thought it strange to make the extra stops rather than 
>include the clocks with a normal stop.
>	Believe it was the same at Clearview loop but here they were integrated 
>with the stops --   outbound before making the loop and inbound before 
>leaving it.
>	Don't remember any such things on the interurban lines!   None at all!
>



At Jane St. Loop, (which wasn't, but that is what the "Pittsburgh Railways 
important orders and instructions" booklet calls it in June 1960) there were 
four time clocks.  Outbound 76 and outbound 64 on/near Swissvale Ave. and 
inbound 76 and inbound 64 near/on Coal St.  There was also an "emergency 
pole telephone" (to give it the correct PRC term) half way along the 76 
layover track.

For trivia purposes, emergency pole telephones were also located at Tunnel 
(north end); Tunnel (center); Tunnel (south end).  Also at "Mud 
Switch-Penna. Blvd."; "Research Stop"; "James Street Siding"; "Dookers 
Hollow Bridge"; "Dravosburg Crossover"; Wilkinsburg Junction (Forbes and 
Braddock Avenues); Wilmerding Wye-route 87 (this is June 1960 list); and 
Hays Junction (Glenwood Bridge).

And please don't ask me for location of some of these.  Just added for 
trivia purposes.

John



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