[PRCo] Fwd: Re: [LRPPro] Pittsburgh 1948 - Part 11: Shuttle Lines

[Bill]

--- In LRPPro at yahoogroups.com, stennyson at ... wrote:

 Route 12 Evergreen was not a shuttle line. It was a through route to
downtwon, I scheduled it but not actually.The schedule never changed.
One car every hour, 26 minutes each way 8 minutes recovery time. Company
policy was 15 minutes or more for both headway and recovery time.
   Route 9 was a track connection between Route 6 and 8+21 and provided
a semblance of crosstown service on the North Side, It was not much.
Probably 170,000 annual passengers
  Route 17 connected Route 20 with the busier part of North Side in an
industrial district. Probably 200.000 passengers.
  Route 24 was a stand alone line with no track connection with the
system. Every few years they trucked the car to the shop and put a
better one out there. It was maintained (sort of) in place like a small
street car museum   I guess 270,000 pax
  Route 29 was a branch line to a small outlying community through open
space,  Probably 140,000.
   Route 32 was a key link between West End and South Side after Route
33 was abandoned in the 30's.  Maybe 320,000
  51 was a branch off of 53 with about 160,000 just above Bon Air LRT
station
  52 was to get beyond the loop with a double end car. Probably 70,000
  63 was a track connection between 55 and 64.  May be 140,000
  78 looped Wilkinsburg on the 76 and 67 tracks then headed for Oakmont
from which it was cut back in 1938. I hiked the right-of-way to Oakmont
in 1940. A bus served Oakmont and 78 mid-aay but to minimize bus mileage
at peak 78 ran local to the Wilkinsburg town limits. 100,000
  81 =  Was a branch line from Oakland to the area south peak hours only
if  remember right.  It may have been shut  down in 1948 for local
construction work but did not last long after that. One of the Hill
District-Oakland shuttle buses may have taken it over.       
   The usual shuttle headway was 20 minutes but with a very short line
and a 15 -minute headway on the connection,  a few had 15-minute
headways  38A was 20 minutes, I rode it once a week to a scout meeting.
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