[PRCo] Re: Verona line chronology

[Fred Schneider]

End of service to Verona was Mar 28, 1938.  Route cards ended in 1944 when
someone apparently decided keeping all that paper was a waste of time and
money.  So I have no official record of when the Laketon Road shuttle quit ...
probably 1950-1952.  Maybe it was in Headlights.

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> Fred
> Good historic summary.  Thanks for looking this up.
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> When was the end of trolley service?
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> Also, did PRC have a route card for their
> eventual replacement bus?
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> Harold Geissenheimer
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> Matt Barry wrote:
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> >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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