[PRCo] Re: Homewood___&&___Misc

[Jim Holland]

Ed!


	Reporting is ok  --  math and interpretation might be amiss.

	The opening line of the commentary from Dennis is listed
here:::::::


> It was 43 years ago July 10 when Pittsburgh's Homewood
> Carhouse, the scene of a 1955 fire which destroyed
> 11 PCC cars, including prototype all-electric 1600,
> was closed, leaving the shops there. 


	It may be better to rewrite this with the majority of the
sentence as parenthetical as follows:::::::


	It was 43 years ago July 10 when Pittsburgh's Homewood
Carhouse,  -*-((the scene of a 1955 fire which destroyed 11 PCC
cars, including prototype all-electric 1600,))-*-   was closed,
leaving the shops there.

	Thus 2003 minus 43 equals 1960 when Homewood Car House was
closed.    Also of note about Homewood is that it was victim of a
fire in 1955 that..........

	West End was definitely defunct of revenue trolleycar operations
in 1960.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood___&&___Misc
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:40:28 -0500
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>

But in 1955, the West End had four years to run.  I was directing
my comment to the sloppy reporting!

-----Original Message-----
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Of Boris
Cefer
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:14 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood___&&___Misc


Was 43 years ago! Seems to me that PRCo did not require any place
to store operable cars at West End in 1960. But might be wrong...
I was "minus 17" years old in those days.

Boris von Pittsburgh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:26 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood___&&___Misc


> I wonder how they operated the West End with all those
> cars in dead storage at Ingram.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> Holland
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:01 AM
> To: --- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC ---
> Subject: [PRCo] Homewood___&&___Misc


> Good Morning!


> More From Dennis Linsky::



> It was 43 years ago July 10 when Pittsburgh's Homewood
> Carhouse, the scene of a 1955 fire which destroyed
> 11 PCC cars, including prototype all-electric 1600,
> was closed, leaving the shops there.    As a result,
> there were 4-carhouses remaining in Steel City.   
> They were Keating, Tunnel (South Hills), Craft Avenue,
> and Glenwood.    Dead storage barns included Ingram
> and Rankin.    The carlines at Homewood were all shifted
> to Craft Avenue and included 82-Lincoln, 62-Trafford,
> 87-Ardmore, 88-Frankstown, and 96-East Liberty-52nd Street.
> PCC car 1630 had its ventilation system and hump on
> the roof both removed.

> Pittsburgh Railways was going to renumber all the shuttle
> bus routes in the 1-99 series, which were now in the
> 200 and 100 series.    All Through bus routes, including
> the Parkway lines, were to be lettered.  The effect of this
> will be to return various former carlines to their
> former numbers.

> New rail has been laid on route 75 between 5th and Shady
> on Penn Avenue.....

> Millvale Garage closed on Sunday, November 13, 1960,
> meaning that buses went to Homewood, the rail yard was
> moved to Glenwood, and routes 94, 95, and 96 went bus.....

> The Pennsylvania PUC had to investigate poor service on
> Pittsburgh Railways late at night and during rush hours
> because of complaints from Steel City and Mayor Barr.....

> Since the PRR strike of September 1-12, 1960, some of the
> bus lines were doing quite a bit more business; 2 of these
> bus lines are Eastern Greyhound and Lincoln Coach.

>        From HEADWAY RECORDER, October, 1960, page N-8,
> first, fourth, and fifth paragraphs.

>        Very Sincerely,

>        Dennis M. Linsky
>        1350 East 5th Street, Apt. 3P
>        Brooklyn, NY   11230-4686
>        11/8/03


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