[PRCo] Re: FAIR car layups

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:

> .......The eighteen spare cars at Castle Shannon may be
> enough to increase the service from 30 minutes to 5 - 6 minutes.  What
> Bob remembered stored above South Hills Junction maybe what was needed
> to get the headway down to 3 or 4 minutes.

	And service is needed inbound to loop downtown to take people  *to*  the
Fair.   Not every car from other lines was routed out onto the Charleroi
line - twouldn't be any service anywhere else then!

> It was also my understanding that not all County Fair runs used Tunnel
> motormen.  I've been told, I think by Ed Lybarger,.......

	Ed did mention in previous posts that some cars ran through to West
Library from foreign lines.

> .......that in the week
> before the fair MofW crews went out and drove stakes into the ground
> ahead of every highway crossing on the interurbans to make life easy for
> foreign motormen.

	This was a practice that was kept until I left Pgh in 1963 - and may have
continued until thru bus service was instituted.
	In the 1950s--1960s, saw horses with battery operated blinkers were used
Before And After each grade crossing And passenger stop.   Track work was
also done with some ballast spreading and some tamping.

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