[PRCo] 16th Street Bridge

[Bob Rathke]

I rode these double-end cars on Chestnut St. in 1952, and spent considerable
time in "my" seat (the unoccupied motorman's seat at the back end) where I
collected transfers out of the garbage bag.

I still have those transfers, including some that are called a "Car Change
Receipt".   These look like regular PRC transfers, but are 7-1/2" long
(regular transfers were 6-1/2").  Wording states that, "This is not a
transfer", and that it was intended to show that a fare was paid when the
rider had to transfer to another car for operational reasons.

Bob 7/6/02

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Holland" <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 2:45 AM
Subject: [PRCo] 16th__Street__Bridge


>
> Good Morning!
>
> The following is from Dennis Linsky who gleans this information from the
> periodicals of the day:::::::
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> It was 50 years ago when, because of a month's closing of the 16th Street
> Bridge, trolley routes 1-Spring Garden and 5-Spring View temporarily
> resumed double-end car operation between their quaint termini and a
> crossover at the end of the bridge at Chestnut and Canal Streets on the
> North Side.   Route 77/54 (locally, the "Flying Fraction") avoided the
> bridge by continuing along Penn and Liberty Avenues to a temporary
terminus
> at 9th Street.
>
> Additional service to the North Side was provided by extra trips on route
> 4-Troy Hill, but the recent changeover of routes 2-Etna and 3-Millvale to
> buses and the extension of the downtown bus loop to Liberty Avenue didn't
> help the inconvenienced riders of the 3 altered routes.
>
> No further word from the Pennsylvania PUC has been forthcoming on any
> Pittsburgh Railways fare increase.   The Steel City claimed this was the
> only locale where there was "stubborn adherence to an obsolete mass
transit
> system" and inferred all could be solved by conversion to bus or
> trolleybus.
>
>        Very Sincerely,
>
>        Dennis M. Linsky
>        1350 East 5th Street, Apt. 3P
>        Brooklyn, NY   11230-4686
>        email:  Dennismk1 at aol.com
>        7/6/02
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