[PRCo] Re: Boarding buses and trains

[John Swindler]

>Fred W. Schneider III commented:
>
>If a man was late, it would have done much good for a supervisor to know 
>that fact.  There was no other routes from which you could juggle cars to 
>get things back on schedule.  And if a car arrived late, the
divisions could put another car out at the end of the line.



If an inbound interurban car was sufficiently late, even on a Sunday, 
another car would be pulled out of Tunnel car house and started on the city 
loop on the schedule of the late car.  The trainmen (correct PRC term, circa 
1960) would trade cars after the replacement car had completed the city 
loop, maybe at P&LE, maybe Tunnel, maybe ...?  I was on the late cars at 
least a couple times  on Sunday/Holiday pass riding during early 60s.  
Knowing that the 'late' car would end up being a pull-in, I'd change cars 
with the operator.

In the "East End District" an emergency pole telephone (again correct term) 
was also located at "Craft Ave. Station-route foreman".  In late 50s (I was 
a younger witness to this) and maybe into the early 60s, a 76 car would be 
placed at Jane Street Loop during pm peak.  Well, maybe a bit earlier.  
Anyway, sometimes phone at Jane St. would ring.  Never thought much about it 
at the time, but now assume trainman was getting instructions from Craft 
Ave. route foreman to put a late running route 76 operator back on time.  
Trainman would depart inbound on 76 line, and sometimes return about a half 
hour or so later with a different car.

Hope I'm describing this sufficiently to be understandable.




>
>And what you remember of the interurban lines was simply the pieces of
>something that apparently never needed anything.
>



>Jim Holland wrote:
>
>         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!
>


Concerning Jim's comment about the lack of departure clocks on the 
interurban lines, Drake Loop and Simmons Loop were later day creations.  
Could it be that the departure clocks dated from an earlier era??

John




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