[PRCo] Re: 2)--Corey_Avenue

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Sorry, I said 1963 when I meant 1953.

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: 2)--Corey_Avenue



You are confusing two routes, both numbered 63.   There is no way of
knowing when Corey Avenue got that route number.  The route card is for
route 404 from 1902 until 1921 then 527 from 1921 to 1936 and finally
63 from 1936 to 1953.   The three digit numbers were internal to the
Railways Company and I cannot explain the logic.  What this proves is
that routes without public numbers did exist and at the same time there
were scads of unused two digit numbers.

This route logically worked out of Rankin until the bridge collapse in
1937.  Rankin never again became an operating barn and the route stayed
at Homewood until it ran off the route cards in 1943....

63 from Pittsburgh to Trafford (one of the Forbes St. routes) had
absolutely nothing to do with 63 Corey Avenue, which was a 1.34 mile
shuttle route in the borough of Braddock.   63 Corey ran from 1st and
Corey to 13th and Braddock.  At one time it went as far east as Dooker's
Hollow on Braddock Avenue (not to be confused with Dooker's Hollow and
Bell Avenue which was route 64) but never to East Pittsburgh.

I will not comment on what was on the cloth sign roll for 63 Trafford
because I never saw a car with that sign turned up.  And I'm not going
to be presumptuous enough to believe that the name on the route card
always matched the sign precisely enough for a railfan.

Jim Holland wrote:

>
>
>
> > .......The 63 line ran from Homewood from 1909 to 1914,
> > then Craft from 1914 until abandonment in 1931.
>
>         What would the official destination sign be for the 63-line.
> Didn't this terminate on Corey Avenue?   The PTM map lists it as
> 63-Corey Ave.
>     Was there a 63-Corey which ran to and from E.Pgh only?

> James B. Holland
>
>

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