[PRCo] Re: SHJ__Mystery__Track

[Fred Schneider]

Back in the middle 1950s, when I carried newspapers, if my bundle was  
short, the approved method of getting one or two papers to me was to  
send it out on the Lititz bus.   It was up to me to hoof it 0.3 mile  
to the bus stop, and then an average of average of 1.5 mile to the  
customer (it was always the last person), and 1.2 mile back home all  
for a return of 1/4 cent per paper.   Even with inflation, that would  
be a whopping 3 cents today.

On Mar 14, 2006, at 4:42 AM, hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim__Holland
>>
>>
>> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>>
>> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
>>
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