[PRCo] Re: PRCo___MU--Cars

[Fred Schneider]

The 3750s on 63 Trafford?  The route cards may specify double-truck or
low-floor but they don't go to the detail of specific series.  Wish they
did.

Route 62 worked out of Rankin until the old Rankin bridge collapse of
1937, when it was moved to Homewood.  The 63 line ran from Homewood from
1909 to 1914, then Craft from 1914 until abandonment in 1931.  In the
1940s and 1950s the 3750s were all based at Tunnel ... Sewickley was the
only West End line that worked out of Tunnel.  I have seen no records for
the cars before the 1940s ... I would suspect Castle Shannon from 1926 to
1930-whatever.

The backup controller in the 3750s might have been useful if there were
some unusual diversions.

I don't think, however, that any motorman would have long suffered the
agony of kneeling at the back of the car to run it all the way from East
Pittsburgh to Trafford, and then walking to the front of the car to open
and close doors at every stop.  Why?  Because there was no loop at
Trafford until about 1944.  The standard car was a double-end low-floor
car until the PCC era.

All of this does not negate the possibility that a shop man from Homewood,
tired of working, might have road tested after 1944 a newly fixed 3750 all
the way to Trafford and back  ... until he was fired.   This is how urban
legends are made ... I just did it.



Jim Holland wrote:

> Good Morning!
>
> > Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > I don't deny that PRC operated such services but they did
> > not appear in the route cards.  The official record shows:
> .......snip:)
>
> > I would be much more willing to accept a record completed
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