[PRCo] Re: Interurban/Washington Locals

[Fred Schneider]

It was a royal pain and it required a man from the office to come out  
and stop traffic every time a car was backed out of the terminal.

It also provided a convenient waiting room for the public.   It  
provided a place for cars that were late arriving to recover lost  
time.   I would have to look at the schedule to see how much recovery  
was built it ... I think I remember waiting there for at least 20  
minutes before the car I came in on left again.   Maybe it was 25  
minutes.      Having a car sit on the street for 20-25 minutes would  
have no doubt upset the populace which in turn would have agitated  
mayor and the town council.    [Having it sit there during the period  
of the PUC hearings would probably just make the council support the  
abandonment.]    There is an early picture of a 3700 on the street  
which causes me to question when the terminal was built???   Maybe Ed  
knows and if he doesn't maybe one of you wants to take on the task of  
reading the old Washington papers to find out.    Large smile.   The  
time can be used for matching grants.


On Dec 20, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Mark McGuire wrote:

>   If this has been covered on this list before I apologize.
> I was just wondering why the interurban to Washington did not use
> the same trackage as the local cars instead of using the wye?
> They looped around the city of Washington when the local lines were
> abandoned. Why didn't they do this all the time? The wye seemed like
> it would be a royal pain backing into city traffic.
>   Where did the interurban cars lay over when they looped the city
> of Washington in the waning days of service?
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