[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps

[Fred Schneider]

Route 37 operated as long as Washington and Charleroi did not stop  
between downtown and Frederick Street. That change was made in 1952  
and that is also when the interurban car destination signs were  
changed to SHANNON-WASHINGTON and SHANNON-CHARLEROI.   I can assure  
you that the original roll signs in the interurban cars just had one  
word destinations and the other two destinations were stitched to the  
bottom of the roll.   I can remember going to Castle Shannon in 1952  
on an interurban car and returning on a 3700 running as a Shannon  
tripper.

There was at least one 66 trip in the afternoon two months after the  
PAT paper stickers appeared on the sides of the cars.   I  
photographed it in Frick Park (see PCC from Coast to Coast page  
174).   The route cards do not extend late enough to research whether  
or not these routes were all running in the 1950s.   Some of these  
routes may not have been running in the 1950s, or may have run so few  
trips that the person working on the map thought it insignificant,  
or ...

Remember basic rule ... people do make mistakes.

On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:37 AM, John Swindler wrote:

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>> James B. Holland mentioned:
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>> 11 East Street and 43 Neeld are not listed, but 47 Carrick Rush Hour
>> Service is listed and that is how it is listed  --  all three were  
>> rush
>> hour so why list one and not the others?!?!       Not checking for  
>> others.
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> Routes 11 and 43 were rush hour short turns for 10 and 42  
> respectively.  47
> was a separate routing that just happened to operate only during  
> the rush
> hour.  Similar to 79 about ten years earlier (according to  
> Pittsburgh city
> directory)
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> What about 66, 69 and 95?  And during the 1950s, was 37 a rush hour  
> only, or
> did it have all day service??
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> As a railfan teenager in Pgh., that map was a prized collection,  
> but as you
> mentioned, apparently a lot were printed.
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> John
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