[PRCo] Re: One Hundred Years Ago, March 14, 1902

[John Swindler]

>John F Bromley corrected:
>
>From the 1926 route guide:
>
>72 BLOOMFIELD OUTSIDE LOOP via Penn, 7th St, 6th Av, Forbes, Craig, Center, 
>Millvale, Liberty, Main St (Bloomfield), Penn Av to 7th St.
>
>92 BLOOMFIELD INSIDE LOOP via Forbes, 6th Av 5th Av, Liberty, Millvale,
>Center, Craig, Forbes.
>
>The affable (Special, today only) JFB (just kidding)
>


Yes, I should have looked it up.  Interesting that PUC complaint docket
C-1571 of 1918 lists "Bloomfield Route" as routes 79-92.  Route 77 is not 
listed separately in the PUC decision report.  Must check the testimony on 
micorfilm (which I've been wanting to do - someday - for past six months) to 
see what's available.  Suspect it will include a complete listing of the 
stops on all routes by route number.

So, 'affable' John, what does your 1926 map list for route 77?  A 
northside-Bloomfield-Oakland route??  Had it already been linked with 54??

Oppps.  Just saw an error in C-1571 quoted above.  In an earlier section it 
mentions:  "At the present time the Bloomfield belt cars, routes 72 and 92, 
the Forbes-Shady-Penn belt cars, roues 79 and 91, the Frankstown Avenue 
cars, routes 88 and 89, and the Larimer Avenue cars, route 98 (yes, that's 
what it says, "98") are operated over the Penn Avenue throat  from the 
downtown district to the various terminal districts east of 34th St."


Back to Matt's first question:  PUC Decision C-1571 also lists for "Routes 
54 and 59":  "Beginning at the approach to the Twenty-second Street Bridge 
over the Monongahela Rivers, across said bridge, along Twenty-second, 
Sidney, South Nineteenth and Mary Streets to south Eighteenth Street".  So 
yes, 22nd St. Bridge is location now known as "Brady Street Bridge".  (and 
unfortunately, quoted route for 54 and 59 does not list rest of trackage 
shared with other routes).



> > >Matt Barry asked:
> > >
> > >Also, I am assuming that the South 22nd Street Bridge was renamed 
>"Brady
> > >Street Bridge" or was a precursor to the Brady Street Bridge.   Anyone
> > >know?
> > >
> > >The route itself sounds like PRCo's 77/54 -- or at least the 54 part of
>the
> > >route.   The Flying Fraction was formerly two routes, was it not?
> > >  One that left Oakland to the South Side, and the other that left
> > >Oakland to the North Side?
> > >
> >
> >
> > Wasn't route 77 the counter-clockwise trips on the Bloomfield Belt??  
>Went
> > out Fifth through Bloomfield and returned on Penn.
> >
> > Not to be confused with another belt route that went through East 
>Liberty.
>-- Trailing quotes stripped by Listar --
>
>


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