[PRCo] Re: Verona line chronology

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Fred
Good historic summary.  Thanks for looking this up.

When was the end of trolley service?

Also, did PRC have a route card for their
eventual replacement bus?

Harold Geissenheimer

Matt Barry wrote:

>Thanks, Fred.
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>>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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