[PRCo] Re: 1974 Detours

[Fred Schneider]

Perhaps the answer is very simple.  The  route through Dormont and Mount Lebanon was not only 42/38 but it was also the diversion route for Drake and Library if something went wrong on the interurbans.  I could give you any number of pictures of interurban cars in Dormont.  I happened to run into a service disruption one evening back in the 1980s.  Man you should have seen the traffic in Dormont.  Some pictures have as many as three cars in them going the same direction.

Now does it make sense?

macmarka at netzero.net wrote:

>   Once in awhile I run across a photo or two that don't seem to make sense to me. I have a print I purchased from John Bromley that shows PCC 1706 signed 42/38 on the 38A loop with another car behind it. The only part of the sign I can read on the second car shows "RAKE". No doubt 36 -Shannon Drake. This is where the confusion sets in. What would a Drake car be doing on the 38A loop unless of course this was a charter. The photo is dated 5/26/74. I have a theory that maybe the Shannon lines ran on the 42/38 one way while the South Side busway was being constructed in Overbrook. Any ideas?  Another shot of a recently acquired slide shows a Library car on the 37 loop next to Castle Shannon Municiple Building. This slide is dated 7/2/74. I know the Mt. Washington Tunnel was being constructed in 1974 and cars would detour inbound or outbound on new Arlington. I seem to recall that the South busway was being constructed the same year. This would not explain a 35 car on the 37 loo!
> p however. Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!                                                                                      I'm Back!            Mark Mc