[PRCo] Re: West Penn Railways Fare Zones

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Fred

You mention West Penn using PRCo right of way in McKeesport, was there other areas of the
PRCo right of way that West Penn used?

Jerry
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> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2005/09/20 Tue PM 06:07:44 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] West Penn Railways Fare Zones
> 
> My wife thinks Ed Lybarger is away (she and his wife Janis are closer  
> than Ed and I).  Some point he will catch up to this and no doubt add  
> his comments.
> 
> West Penn also used fare zones on Division B (Coke Region) in much  
> the same manner that Pittsburgh Railways did on Washington and  
> Charleroi but their zones were not as arbitrary.   West Penn zones  
> often overlapped each other so that a ride from zone A to just  
> slightly into zone B really was only a one zone ride.   Ed has a lot  
> of information on them manipulating fare zones in order to get more  
> money without actually increasing fares.   Therefore the zone charts  
> in 1920 may not be identical to those in 1930 or 1940 or 1952.    
> During the summer months, i.e. the park season, West Penn was also  
> know to abolish certain zones to increase attendance at company-owned  
> amusement parks.  In this instance I'm talking about fare zones  
> between Uniontown and Shady Grove Park.
> 
> I have no idea what West Penn did in the way of minimum fares ...  
> seems to me it was one zone and not a minimum of two.
> 
> I've never seen a zone chart outside of the Coke Region and I would  
> be curious to know whether or not West Penn charged the same fare as  
> Pittsburgh Railways when they both ran cars over West Penn tracks  
> between McKeesport and Duquesne.   I have a hunch that whatever West  
> Penn charged in McKeesport might well have been influenced by  
> Pittsburgh Railways, but that was on the fare chart with Allegheny  
> Valley and I don't have one. 
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