[PRCo] Re: Rankin Car House - Munhall last run

[Matt Barry]

Hello John,

I didn't know that about the 65 Munhall, that it made it's way out 2nd 
avenue to reach it's route for its last run.   That would mean that the 
old Glenwood Bridge was still in service in Sept. 1965.  I thought it 
had closed after the 55 East Pittsburgh route made it's last run in July 
1964.

I thought that after the 55 made it's last run, that is when the 65 was 
extended to East Pittsburgh, and that the 65 was probably then operating 
out of Craft Avenue car house.

It always seemed strange to me that the 65 Munhall was retained after 
the 55 service had been discontinued.   It seemed so isolated from any 
other operating carlines.  But I did believe that it's point of entry 
into and out of the Munhall/Homestead area was via route 67 Braddock 
trackage off the Rankin Bridge.

Incidentally, I recall seeing a half-page ad run in an old Pittsburgh 
Press from 1965 that announced the arrival of the air-conditioned bus on 
the 65 Munhall route.  There was an illustration of a PCC with a big "X" 
going through it.   Pretty rough.

Matt


John Swindler wrote:

>Speaking of PRC having some early runs to get guys to work:
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>Last 65 car was a run that I never knew existed.
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>Rode last 22 car in pm rush.
>Then rode last Castle Shannon Incline trip around 10-11 pm.
>Then the Arden crew told me about the last 65 car:  it was a pull out from 
>Tunnel Car house - went out Second Ave. to Munhall or E. Pittsburgh around 
>1am, then trip on 65 to Lincoln Place around 2am, then to Munhall or E. 
>Pittsburgh around 3am, then back to Tunnel Carhouse as the sun was starting 
>to rise.  I have no recollection of passing Mesta Machine on that last 
>inbound trip - apparently that's where sleep finally won out for a while.
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>Very grateful that I grew up in Pittsburgh at that time.
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>John
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