[PRCo] Re: JTC PCC on TC overhead

[Fred Schneider]

I mentioned too that I have a picture of a streetcar on the bridge in Franklin
running on TC overhead, but it was taken in 1960 and the trackless vehicles were
not using it.  The negative wire had been hung two feet from the positive
trolley wire in anticipation of use later that year.  In the case of the picture
I have, it was months before it would be regularly used.

What line is it on?  Trolley coach overhead was installed by JTC line crews over
a long period of time prior to the conversion of the main routes from trolley to
TC in June 1960.   Just because trolleys were running on TC overhead does not
mean TCs could also use it ... that does not necessarily indicate that the job
was done.   I would expect they took some coaches out for tests in the last
weeks, however.  And I think that after the trolleys were silenced, the overhead
was repositioned in some places.

Bob Rathke wrote:

> See JTC photo at www.rr-fallenflags.org/lightrail/jtc416.jpg   that  took on
> January 3, 1960 - the PCC is running on trolley coach overhead.
>
> Bob 4/28/04
>
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> From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:22 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: JTC___TrolleyCars__&__Trolleycoaches__-- (NOTE Subject
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> > I also have pictures of cars running on TC overhead on the Franklin line.
> Point to be made here is that only Horner Street had trolley coaches at the
> same time as streetcars on the rest of the system, and therefore it was the
> only one I mentioned.  All of the other routes were converted from rail to
> TC in 1960, and the positive wire was initially the old streetcar wire.
> I'll repeat,
> > therefore, that I have no evidence that Johnstown ran trolleys and
> trackless on the same wires (at the same time).   Of course I don't have
> pictures of cars in every single block ... only a one inch folder of 8x10s.
> RR