[PRCo] Re: SHJ__Mystery__Track

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

In 1974 I worked out of East Liberty garage and had a PM run on the 76-Hamilton. On my first outbound trip, every day, at Fifth and Smithfield the Pgh Post Gazette newsman (selling papers out of a small newstand) would throw two bundles of papers on my bus. When I arrived in Wilkinsburg, at a drug store, the name of which I do not remember, a man would come out and take the papers. It was still being done as if the PRCo 76-Hamilton car were still in operation.
HrB

---- "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote: 
> Good Guess!       Official Freight operations ended in 1941........but certainly there were other items like 
> newspapers and other items could still be shipped  --  even the 
> Interurban PCCs did that into the 1960s  --  used to ride some of the 
> early pullouts on Sunday and we dropped papers at Bethel Church on 
> Library  --  possibly other locations!       My job was to remind the 
> motorman!
> 
> 
> Mark McGuire wrote:
> .
> 
> > Just a guess here. Perhaps the reason the freight car was stationed 
> > there was that it was used every day to deliver newspapers?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models 
> > // James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
> >
> >> Enclosed is another photo from Trolley Talk when 1000 series PCCs 
> >> were assigned to South Hills in the latter 1930s -- note the freight 
> >> car sitting on the mystery track. This <-Tradition-> (freight car on 
> >> Mystery Track) continued into the early 1950s!
> >>
> 
> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1004-38-IB_SHY_19391028_RMWagner.jpg
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> 
> Jim__Holland
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> 
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
> 
> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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