[PRCo] Re: M454

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

The November 1950 snow storm was quite an event.  I was working foMontour Motor
Coach in Robinston Twp-Moon Run.  I left Dormont on the 42 about 715AM.  No snow.
Got on the Montour bus downtown about 8AM.  No snow.

By the time we arrived in Moon Run about 830AM.  Snow

This was the day after Thanksgiving and a major shopping day.

By noon, we had chains on the buses on these country roads.

We sent PM rush hour buses into the city by 2PM to take people home.

By 4 PM. many streets and highways were closed.

By 6PM, we had two buses and the service truck stranded between
Oakdale and Quinns Corner (Rt 30) including me riding in the service
truck.

about 10 passengers and us spent the night in a farm house.

Owner fed  us and comforted us.  She received an annual pass in return.

Sat morning I walked a mile thru the drifts to Rt 30 and hitched a ride on a
snow plow back to the garage in Moon Run.

Rt 30 did not reopen until Wed.

We started buses on Thursday and I went home.  Quite a week.  Stayed at a
driver's home near the garage in Moon Run.

According the papers, most street cars did not run until Tues or Wed.
Papers showed photos of cars iced in on the rail.  Long lines.  etc.

The city blocked off auto traffic until Wed and called out the
National Guard.  It was the only time in my 27 years of military
that I could not repond.  You could not get out of Moon Run, up Rt 30
from the Thornburg shuttle steet car,  Rts 22 & 30 west remained closed
for days.  (These were the highways that in Crafton made a left turn
onto a narrow streets where the Thornburg shuttle turned back.)

Quite an experience.  I am sure many operators had to stay overnight
some place.

Be interesting to reference the Post Gazette or the Pgh Press for what
they carried.n  Some one in Pgh could look up the old papers.

Harold Geissenheimer.


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