[PRCo] Re: GE 1700 on 39-Brookline in 1966?

John Swindler j_swindler at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 15 12:22:23 EDT 2003



Didn't only routes 14 and 21 migrate from Tunnel to Keating?  Maybe Harold 
can tell us what happened to routes 8, 15, 10, etc. while Keating rebuilt as 
Ross bus garage.  Did they go temporarily to Manchester?

John


>From: "John F Bromley" <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: GE 1700 on 39-Brookline in 1966?
>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:56 -0400
>
>All the surviving cars from Keating went to Tunnel.  Operation there was
>common.  I have a great slide of 1799 coming down the Dawn av ramp onto 
>West
>Liberty Av (it's been on eBay twice) and several others, routes 44, 49,
>42/38.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ken & Tracie" <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:53 AM
>Subject: [PRCo] GE 1700 on 39-Brookline in 1966?
>
>
> > I found a Roberta Hill photo dated June 13, 1966. It was taken around
>9:00am at
> > Dawn Junction and shows two inbound 1700s approaching the junction, one 
>a
>42/38
> > car, the other, a Route 39 car. Roberta lists the latter as being 1777
>(I).
> >
> > I seem to recall reading somewhere that some North Side cars wound up at
>South
> > Hills for a while after the closing of Routes 10-15. Would that explain
>the
>

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