[PRCo] Re: Timetables

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mark McGuire wrote:

>
>   Hello fellas! I have a minor collection of PRCo/PAT timetables. I say
> minor as most of them are from the interurbans. The prize of my
> collection is a combined Charleroi/Washington tt dated 4/27/41.
>  I'm looking for a tt that would be very common. I'm looking for a
> 47L, 47D, 47S, 47 tt. This would be dated somewhere between 1984-1993.
> For some reason, I'm missing the Overbrook lines during the LRV era.
> If anyone has an extra, please let me know and I'll compensate you
> for it.
>  If you have any extras of the earlier lines, I'll compensate you for
> them also.

As it happens, in the process of emptying boxes I finally dragged over
here from my parents' house, I came across these a few weeks before you
asked. My world expanded greatly when I started high school in 1987 and
thus began riding the 67E and 67F to and from Oakland on days when I
needed to arrive or leave late. I have timetables dating back that far for
most of the bus routes, and a nice stretch of rail timetables. When I was
in high school I had more free time, and so if I got out early, or had a
free Saturday morning, I often found myself on the way to Library or South
Hills Village (Drake service was infrequent enough that I visited Drake
less often). Despite neither living nor working south of the city, I
managed to be a regular passenger through that era, including when the PCC
lost its brakes and hit the Gatehouse building at the corner of
Smithfield and Carson. So, I also have the timetables from the Drake
and Overbrook bus service and Library shuttle (when the 4000s did all the
service), service notices when the Library quickie upgrade started, and
the first new 42L schedules.

Seems like these days I never get out that way.