[PRCo] Re: Verona line chronology

[Matt Barry]

Thanks, Fred.

Fred Schneider wrote:

>Aug 9 1902 ... Route 708 From Penn and Center Avenues to Wilkinsburg
>boro line.
>Dec. 16, 1902 - extended to Verona.
>Dec 19 2003 -- route 710 operated as a shuttle from Verona to Oakmont.
>May 16 2004  -- Wilkinsburg terminus extended to Wilkinsburg Junction
>Service through to Oakmont.  and 710 mreged into route 708.
>July 6 1922 -- Route extended to Hutchinson Avenue
>Jan 1 1923 -- eastern terminal moved to Braddock and Hutchinson.
>Aug 24 1926 -- One man cars
>Oct 19 1935 -- Service discontinued from Oakmont Station to Hulton
>Station and replaced with buses.
>March 18 1936 -- service suspended for two and a half days due to power
>failure associated with flood.
>March 28 1936 -- full regular service resumed.
>Mar 16, 1937 -- line truncated at Verona viaduct owing to construction.
>Mar 28 1938 --  Service cut back to Montier and Laketon Road,
>Wilkinsburg.   For four days, until a crossover could be installed, cars
>ran beyond Montier to Dream City Hill.
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>References to cars show 4300s in later years.  Peak headway
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>Car requirements are very confusing.  Between 3 and 6 cars were required
>to provide a 30 minute peak hour schedule.  Off peak on weekdays
>required two cars with service every hour.  The great discrepancy on
>week days suggests that there may not have been enough sidings and that
>cars might have been running in two sections.
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>There were numerous changes in the routing in Wilkinsburg over 36
>years.  Until I get a good map to figure out what happened, there is no
>reason to even mention them.
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