[PRCo] Re: JTC

[Bill Robb]

>From Ben Rohrbeck's Johnstown Traction Co:

No PCCs on Dale.  The line was abandoned August 2,
1940.
Must have been a fan trip.

The typed timetables in this book (which appear to be
low cost originals) give times for cars leaving
downtown and the terminal points.

The June 23, 1958 Roxbury timetable shows 35 trips
from Roxbury to Morrellsville M-F, and 7 trips from
Roxbury to Coopersdale M-F all in the PM.

>From Morrellville there were trips 36 to Roxbury M-F,
and 25 trips to Moxham Car Barn with 13 of these trips
continuing on to Ferndale.

>From Ferndale there were 15 trips to Cooperdale M-F,
mostly in the morning. There were 13 trips M-F to
Morrellville from Ferndale but only 3 of them were in
the morning. On Saturday there were also trips from
Moxham to Morrelville.

>From Coopersdale there were 8 trips to Roxbury M-F but
only one in the morning. To Moxham Car Barn there were
19 trips with 13 continuing on to Ferndale.  Buses
made the trips after 7.00 PM.

All trips had to pass through downtown, that was the
track pattern.  But no time points are given on the
timetables, but consolidated times are given to
downtown and from City Hall on each timetable.  To me
it looks like JTC was trying to offer some through
service between scattered outlying points in addition
to a greater number trips reaching the common terminal
downtown.

Horner was single track with passing sidings for most
of its length.

The Ferndale car ran via Franklin, Valley Pike,
Central and Ferndale Ave to a loop near Harlan Avenue.
This was all double track.

Not sure if PCCs ran on Mesenger or Ash. They probably
could have but did they?

There was a Moxham sign. From the track plan it looks
like cars running to Moxham Car Barn looped through
the carbarn. No sign of any other loop.

Bill Robb



Moxham could be reached by near route, 

--- "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:

> Could someone please describe the routes for the
> PCCs in 
> Johnstown?       Outer terminals seem to be
> Morrellville, Coopersdale, 
> Franklin, Dale, Moxham, Ferndale, and Roxbury.      
> Were these lines 
> through routed with each other  --  like Ferndale to
> Coopersdale  --  or 
> did all loop downtown and return to the outer
> terminal?
> 
> Did PCCs run regular service along Horner,
> Messenger, Ash etc.?       
> Was this the Moxham car?
> 
> Did the JTC PCCs have a  Car--House  sign or did
> they use Moxham?
> 
> Did 406 become the Banana TrolleyCar on the Ferndale
> route near the 
> single track trestle over Stony Creek?
> 
> 
> Jim__Holland
> 
> 
> 



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