[PRCo] Re: Drake Loop

[Fred Schneider]

YOU NEED TO WRITE IT IN BOOK FORM, HERB.   Profusely illustrate it  
and then find a publisher.   If it's all pictures, Arcadia will  
publish it but it is worth more than that.

On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> It worked. I will have to compose another "True Tales" to get the  
> list going again.
> Herb Brannon <hrbran at sbcglobal.net> wrote:  Thanks Ed, for the  
> information.
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> This is also a 'test' message. I have not received any list posts  
> since this one on 4/17. Every now and then the list computers kick  
> me off.
> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
> The last of the remaining old cars were scrapped by the end of  
> March, 1952.
> They came out of service in 1950-51.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
> Herb
> Brannon
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:12 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Drake Loop
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> In 1953 was all service on the Interurban lines provided by PCC  
> cars or were
> there any of the older interurban cars still being used?
> Fred Schneider wrote: Drake loop opened after
> Washington closed. Drake wye immediately
> south of Walther stop and north of Drake loop opened before the line
> to Washington was abandoned, and service in the spring of 1953 was
> reduced from half hourly to hourly between Drake and Washington.
> Alternating cars ran only to Drake wye.
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> Without trying to be boorish, Jerry, and I recognize you were off the
> list for a while, this was discussed in the past and the dates of the
> loop and the wye are somewhere in the permanent file of messages
> where they can be retrieved if you need them.
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> About the same time Chareroi was also reduced to hourly beyond West
> Library loop.
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> On Apr 14, 2007, at 11:14 AM, wrote:
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>> When the Drake Loop opened, was there an imediate closer of the
>> line to Washington, or did they
>> have a Drake Looop car and a Washington interurban car until the
>> Washington operation ceased?
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>> Jerry M
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