[PRCo] Re: Headway__Recorders

[Edward H. Lybarger]

West Penn had phones at the sidings and probably other points as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Harold Geissenheimer
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:33 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Headway__Recorders




Greetings

In a non-electronic era, The Harmony Short Line bus system kept track of its
buses manually!  On the very heavy New Kensington-Pittsburgh route (ex
West Penn, now PAT route 1/3 A).  There was a dispatcher in both Pgh
and New Kensington terminals with a departure sheet.  He pencilled in the
bus
# and time.  Enroute, Harmony maintained phones on street poles  enroute.
The driver would step off the bus, call in, and a phone operator or
dispatcher
would mark the sheet.

On long suburban lines into Pittsburgh North Hills, there were phones at
isolated garages where drivers reported (Wildwood, Warrendale, Oakmont)
as well as phones enroute.  All of these phones were direct Bell private
lines.  They perhaps had their roots with the West Penn IF WEST PENN HAD
PHONES.

In Winnipeg, the driver carried a time card and had to step off the bus to
have
his timecard recorded.  These were still in use in the late l970's and may
still
be.

Interesting subject.

Harold Geissenheimer


Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Even today (as simple minded as public transit is these days) at Greater
> > Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) operators are given one day
off
> > for each minute leaving a timepoint early, if caught by a route
supervisor.
> > If you are between 30 and 59 SECONDS early and a route supervisor is
> > watching, you will be told to reset your watch.
> >
> > GCRTA requires each operator to have a 'railroad' approved watch, not a
cheap
-- Trailing quotes stripped by Listar --