[PRCo] Re: 2)--Corey_Avenue

[Edward H. Lybarger]

One of those might have been left over from the days when the route ran
from, say, Braddock or Homestead CH or something similar.

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



I thought the route numbers were car house related but I refrained from
saying
so when I discovered that 400 and 500 numbers both were in Rankin.  This may
be
evidence that they changed things from time to time.

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> The three-digit numbers were based on the car house from which the route
> operated.  There was a great deal of consolidation of divisions in the
> 1920s, but the 3-digit numbers persisted a while longer.  My father
> remembered the Trafford Express mainly because it backed up for a block in
> Wilkinsburg, where he grew up.  The route cards don't go to 1963,
> though...PRCo quit entering data on them in the early 1940s.
>
> I think somewhere we have data like this, but it's not in PC format and
> takes some digging to release.  Ollie Miller spent a huge amount of time
on
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