[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps

[Fred Schneider]

If you will forgive me for picking a few nits here ...  rush hour  
only is a very difficult thing to define and it does vary extensively  
by city.  Unless it has changed, the rush in Jim Holland's adopted  
city begins very early in the morning and very early in the afternoon  
because San Francisco is the Wall Street of the West.  I do not  
pretend to be an expert on how this might have changed with after  
hours trading, but the old rule was that San Francisco stock brokers  
kept the same hours as the New York stock brokers.   The result was a  
rather spread out rush hour.

Pittsburgh, because of the mills has a very heavy early peak in the  
afternoon after 3 PM.  The colleges and universities in Oakland added  
to that crush.   The Shannon tripppers were running in the middle of  
the afternoon.  A now deceased friend of mine, John Bowman, once  
lamented that he went out early in the morning in Pittsburgh and  
found the rush hour was over and the cars were already going back to  
the barns.  He simply wasn't used to that because he came from a town  
where most people went to work somewhere around 8 AM and came home  
around 5 PM.






On Sep 15, 2005, at 3:20 PM, James B. Holland 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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>> John Swindler wrote:
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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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> Good Point, John!
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>> And during the 1950s, was 37 a rush hour only, or  did it have all  
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>> service??
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> Strictly rush hours even while Charleroi and Washington were still in
> service  --  thus the  SHANNON--CHARLEROI  and  SHANNON--WASHINGTON
> designations.       These two interurban used to run in tandem,  
> hour and
> half-hour from Pgh., and ran Limited through Overbrook.       Once
> SHANNON  was added to the sign, then the cars ran local and local 37
> service was rush hour only.
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> Jim__Holland
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> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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