[PRCo] Re: Donora fares and Street Car Power Supply

[Edward H. Lybarger]

There was just the one power strike, in 1946.  It involved Duquesne Light.
PRCo ran the outer ends of both Washington and Charleroi as far north as
they could, since the southern substations (Tylerdale, Canonsburg, New
Eagle, Charleroi) were plugged into West Penn Power.

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Ed thanks for update on Donora fares, but another question to our brilliant
trolley minds on thhe operation of trolleys in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

Seeing pictures and on one or two street car videos, mention "power company"
strikes, most
notable was when the service on the Pgh / Charleroi interurban line was
interrupted by a strike, the
service was maintained from Roscoe/Elco to the Riverview Loop where the
Charleroi cars shared the loop with the Donora cars.    Did this happen
often?    What power companies where involved.
and to my "desiring to know" mind.   Where wasthe power actually  supplied?
for example on the Donora line, where actually was the power supplied to the
trolley lines?

As Mark Mcguire my buddy said there are no stupid questions just questions
to increase our knowledge of something we love to get a better understanding
about.

Special thanks to you Ed, Fred, Derric, Boris, Jim.  and of course Mark who
got me once again totally involved with this grand and historic past of the
PRC.

Jerry M