[PRCo] Fwd: Re: Pittsburgh 1948 - References (was Part 13: Interurban lines)

[Bill]

--- In LRPPro at yahoogroups.com, "Leroy W. Demery, Jr."
<chris_demery at ...> wrote:

--- In LRPPro at yahoogroups.com, "Bill" <bill937ca@> wrote, in part:
"Here's a 1952 
PRCo car barn assignment list . . ."


Bill, Lyndon et al.,


Thank you, Bill, for posting these.

If I weren't so far away from the eastern states, and libraries
therein, I'd be combing 
various archives for the equivalent of the Lougee report, for other
cities and other eras.

Imagine, for example, having equivalent data for Pittsburgh ca. 1925.
Or Philly, or 
Chicago, for that era or the immediate post-WWII years. And so forth.

(Of course, if I did have such data, I might never get the traffic
density project done!)

State regulatory agencies generally published annual operating data
for street railways. But 
I haven't been able to determine whether Pennsylvania's did so - and,
if so, in what format.

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum website includes an
interesting-sounding item on its 
bookstore page:

Pennsylvania's Street Railways, Benson W. Rohrbeck, $35.00.

"History of the transit industry in the Keystone Sate, histories of
the industry and 120 
operating systems, route information, operating statistics of 265
companies, 80 area/
system maps, over 260 photos."

Does "operating statistics" include annual ridership, revenue and
car-mile data? And, if so, 
for what year(s)? According to "Worldcat," no library closer than
about 1,000 miles has this 
book . . .

. . . which, if it does have the sort of data I'd like to find, is
perhaps not a bad thing !

Leroy W. Demery, Jr.

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