[PRCo] Re: Crew Assignments

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Not a bad idea.  I'll probably be working with him the all weekend.  He
always takes pictures on the Santa Trolley.  

John Swindler wrote:
> 
> >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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