[PRCo] PRC timetables

[Bob Rathke]

In the pre-PAT days, when there was a new timetable, PRC put them in the
take-one boxes on trolleys for a few weeks, and when they were gone you had
to wait until there was a timetable change before you could find new
timetables on the cars.  Then I discovered the PRC office lobby on Seventh
St. which had racks full of timnetables for all routes 365 days a year.
After 1964, PAT was better at making timetables available throughout the
year, even if there wasn't a schedule change.

Bob 7/21/04

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 5:29 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pathetic!!!!!!!


> Greetings  to all
> Try PAT's store on Smithfield Street at Mellon Sq,  Good selection.
> If they dont have what you want at the Wood Street subway station,
> try the PAT store.
>
> Under John Mauro and I, we had a designated man whowent with two suitcases
> to fill the various racks like in the Union Trust Bldg or US Steel
>
> Putting timetables on the LRT should be easy.  Only 2 lines and cars can
> carry both.  Putting them on buses is another matter.  Two many routes
> in one garage.
>
> Under PAT's first days, ex-private drivers picked up timetables at the
> garage
> for their runs.  PRC Division 85 men could not be bothered.
>
> With the use of the computer, there will be a general decline in the use
of
> printed schedules.
>
> A little side point.    PAT schedules for many years were printed in Cedar
> Rapids by Russels Guides and frequently shipped to Pgh via Greyhound
Lines.
>
> Harold Geissenheimer
>
> Joshua Dunfield wrote:
>
> >Mark McGuire wrote:
> >
> >
> >>  I was going to send you a schedule, but seems you already have one.
> >>These were very hard to come by. The new cars did not even have
> >>slots to keep schedules(timetables) in.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I've found that trying to get schedules from the racks on the LRVs or
> >buses (especially buses) is usually futile.  You're better off looking
> >in the racks in the subway stations; failing that, in the Amtrak
> >station or the CMU or Pitt student unions (the latter are incomplete,
> >however, focusing on East End routes).
> >
> >I remember getting some weird looks in Steel Plaza as I gathered
> >dozens of schedules at once...
> >
> >-j.
> >
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