[PRCo] 1967 East End Lines Photo

[Bob Rathke]

That could be a last-night East End photo from January, 1967 - the snow
looked like that.  The East End trolleys didn't run on weekends in their
final months, so the last day was a Friday.  I started photographing East
End trolleys around 7PM that Friday, then rode a couple of the last runs and
a couple of the next-to-last runs.  Finished up around 5AM Saturday, went
home to rest, then back to Wilkinsburg Saturday afternoon for the free
trolley rides around town.  It was still snowing.

Bob 10/14/03

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Barry" <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: [PRCo] 1967 East End Lines Photo


> http://206.103.49.193/goofy/htm/goofy135.htm
>
> Hello all and Ken!
>
> Check out the photo in the link above.  (Good caption, by the way.)   I
> am guessing this is a pic from late 1966/early 1967 when the buses were
> about to overtake the East End Streetcar Lines.   Could this be a last
> day pic?  Or perhaps a pic from early morn on a Saturday when the
> streetcars would go back to Craft and the buses took over weekend duties?
>
> Regardless, thanks for posting.  This is the final scenario I regretably
> recall from the last days of the East End car lines.
>
> Matt

RR