[PRCo] Re: 87 Ardmore

[Matt Barry]

Hope all goes well.   Best wishes.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 5:09 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 87 Ardmore


> 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
>>
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