[PRCo] Re: Run numbers

[Fred Schneider]

Now lets carry this to some sort of a logical conclusion.  Pretend I'm a supervisor on the street.  And the car due at Penn and Highland inbound on 88 at 15:13 is 12 minutes late.  Am I concerned with the block number because it may relate to a schedule?  Am I looking for car 1202 on route 88 or am I looking for block 03 on route 88?  Or am I concerned more with the run number in order to get the man back where he belongs for his lunch break?  Or do I need to work with both because Pittsburgh insisted on having two separate numbers?  

If we have a car at Keating that is suddenly pressed into service with an extra list man outbound on 10 because of an accident at Perrysville and East that tied up a scheduled car, what block number does it get?  Something after the last normal block of the day?  Or the next block that has not gone out?  

Do you know of situations where the car assigned to Block 1 today became the same car on Block 1 tomorrow because it became an owl car?  

I know, John,

I'm picking nits here.  

-----Original Message-----
From: John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
Sent: Aug 6, 2005 7:11 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Run numbers



I recall it being referred to as a "block number".  It was a sequential 
number for cars assigned to a route - usually based on the order in which 
car left the barn. (first car out was block  1  second car out was block  2) 
   So the 'block number' should stay the same while the vehicle was on the 
street.

The operator had his own 'run number' which referred to his pieces of work.  
Usually two pieces of work were put together to form an operator's run, with 
the goal being to minimize premium pay.  That is, make the operator's run as 
close to eight hours as possible.

In Chicago, the numbers displayed in the front window were not the vehicle's 
"block number", but the operator's "run number".   Thus when making a street 
relief, we had to know the operator's run number that we were relieving, and 
we had the remember to change the number whenever we made a street relief.  
This wasn't necessary in Pittsburgh (unless it was a 'put on time' car).

Hope this makes some sense - without going into too much detail

John



>From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Run numbers
>Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:56:44 +0200
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>That in lower right side of front window on air cars, above the window on
>1700s.
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>B
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 12:40 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Run numbers
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> > Do you mean the operator's run number, or the vehicle run -  or block
>number
> > displayed in lower right side of front window???
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> > In Pittsburgh there was a difference.  In Chicago,there wasn't.
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> > John
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> > >From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> > >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >To: "PRC" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > >Subject: [PRCo] Run numbers
> > >Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:41:10 +0200
> > >
> > >What was the PRCo's system of run numbers? Did each route have its own
> > >route numbers starting with 1, or were all service cars assigned to a
> > >particular carhouse numbered together?
> > >Boris
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