[PRCo] Re: HELP!

[John Bromley]

The date is accurate - as I mentioned to you before the 65 ran to East Pittsburgh as 65/55 (but without a 65/55 route sign, just a window card, as far as I know) after the 55 quit.  Whether or not the 65/55 ran right up to September 65 I know not.  Probably not if the rails are rusty, after all two cars a day max passing over to get to 65 won't do too much, especially if it rained heavily the day before.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:22 PM
  Subject: [PRCo] HELP! 


  John Bromley gave me a print of a fantrip car ... 1699 in front of the
  Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock dated July 11, 1965.  John and I both
  know that route 55 had been broken in 1964, and that route 65 LINCOLN
  PLACE cars had to use a round about route from Craft Avenue to East
  Pittsburgh, then onto the intact portion of route 55 to get into
  Homestead.  I don't know if 55/65 was a functional route or if the
  tracks from Homestead to East Pittsburgh were used only to deadhead cars
  to the barn.

  What is strange about the picture is that the rail heads on both inbound
  and outbound tracks are completely rusty ... as if nothing had run over
  them before the fantrip for the last several rail storms.

  Was the fantrip date correct?  Or was 1699 used for an after abandonment
  trip?

  Was 55 running from Homestead to East Pittsburgh after 1964?  Or just
  barn cars?

  Next problem is that the slide was taken by Joe Jessel and he was noted
  for running private fantrips.  So maybe the question is, how long after
  the September 1965 abandonment of route 65 were the tracks still usable?

  Anyone out there got any clues?