[PRCo] Re: 87 Ardmore

[Fred Schneider]

Cannot remember Matt.   Long interval between cars in later years ...  
I would suggest 20 minutes in middle of the day in 1959 and there may  
have been no evening service.   I remember visiting Ralph Chilcott in  
Forest Hills and he took me into Wilkinsburg to catch a car downtown  
in the late evening because there was either nothing on 87 or it was  
so infrequent that it wasn't worth the wait.

During World War II the rush hour schedule on 87 was probably about  
every two minutes counting the Homewood <> Wilkinsburg <> East  
Pittsburgh trippers.   They didn't waste money on spacing signals out  
on Ardmore Boulevard without a reason.   There was plenty of traffic  
during the war considering both gasoline rationing and employment at  
Westinghouse Electric and Westinghouse Air Brake.

I may have schedules somewhere but my wife is in hospital and is not  
expected home for a long time.   I'm not looking but sympathy but I  
simply don't have time to waste looking right now.

On May 19, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Matt Barry wrote:

> Does anyone have an old schedule for the 87 Ardmore streetcar route or
> recall what the headway times were on this route?
>
> I recall seeing more 88 Frankstowns pass on Penn Avenue in town, than
> 87's.  And my grandfather took me on walks up Liberty Avenue in
> Bloomfield, it seemed to see an 87 glide by.
>
> The link below is a PCC in 1966 on Penn Avenue in town.
> http://www.jerryapp.com/pix2/ja-t534.jpg
>
>