[PRCo] Re: "flying streetcars"

[robert netzlof]

--- John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There was the 77/54 created by linking the 54 car line (north end
> of Brady 
> St. bridge to Carrick via S. 18th St.) with the 77 line - which
> seems to 
> have followed most of the Bloomfield Loop (as opposed to the outer
> loop: 
> Fifth-Shady-Penn).  I wasn't aware that it was a local dj that
> first coined 
> the term "flying fraction", but that is how this route was known
> during my 
> teen years in early 1960s.
While I don't know if it was original with him, Rege Cordic of Cordic
and Company always spoke of The Flying Fraction. That was in the
early 1950's. Cordic started on WWSW (nearly always "WWWSWSWWWWSW..."
when he was doing the station breaks) then moved to KDKA. He had
grown up in Pittsburgh (his father was a supervisor of some sort on 
the B&O RR) so he may have broadcast a usage which had been "hip" in
a smaller circle years earlier. (When did the two routes get spliced
together anyway?)


If anyone else was speaking of the Flying Fraction before, say, 1950,
I wouldn't have known of it.

=====
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob



	
		
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