[PRCo] Re: Crew Assignments

[John Swindler]

>Fred W. Schneider III suggested:
>
>  John, I think we found a job for you.  Move to Pittsburgh and interview 
>all the surviving motormen about how trainmen were assigned to routes.  
>There might be some real surprises.  And I'll bet they varied considerably 
>from year to year as the passenger counts dwindled, the headways 
>lengthened, and the company sought to get more productivity out of its 
>trainmen.  I think we can be certain that certain routes never did share 
>trainmen with others: 12, 21, 36, 51, 81, 63, 38A, W1, W2, Wf, D, 28 (as a 
>shuttle), 29
>



No need to interview the trainmen.  Check with Art Ellis Sr. who wrote the 
schedules.

As for 35 and 36, they were interlined on Sundays only to create a 180 min. 
total cycle time that would only require three cars to maintain a 60 min. 
headway on each 'branch'.  Not needed on Saturday's with a 30 min. headway, 
each branch.

(round trip on Library was 82 min. or 90 min. with layover.  Divide the 
headway into the round-trip cycle time.  A 60 min. headway would require 1.5 
or two cars; a 30 min. headway would require 3 cars.  For Sundays, by 
interlining with Drake, a longer 'line' is created that makes the math 
work.)

Other possibilities that might have used this 'game' were 64/67.  Also maybe 
71/73.

PRC was into productivity.

John (the other one)



>John F Bromley wrote:
> >
> > Finally, from me, a pure Pittsburgh question.  I'm looking at two 
>borrowed negatives from a very nice man in New Jersey (who shall not be 
>named) taken on the same day but on different trips.  One is at the SH Jctn 
>Traffic Office, the other on the r/w at the 35/36/37 junction.  The first 
>is on Route 39, the second on Route 38.  Both about the same part of the 
>day (i.e. one isn't morning rush and evening rush).  There is no question 
>of them being on different days, both on August 2 1946..  Both Car 1240.
> >
> > The Q - did 38 and 39 interline in the same fashion as 35 and 36 in 
>later years??
>


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