[PRCo] Fwd: Re: [LRPPro] Pittsburgh 1948 - Part 1

[Bill]

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

  In 1948, I was the schedule specifier for those Pittsburgh routes. I
was constrained by company policy of every  15 minutes except when peak
loads exceeded 75 per car or mid-day loads exceeded seating capacity,
That was not a problem, The problem was recovery (layover) time, To
avoid wasting it I scheduled them every 12 minutes to Spring Hill and
Spring Garden. I saved a car by alternating trips between the two routes
to cut recovery time with a 15-minute headway
     They were minor routes but Etna and Millvale were important routes,
The main- tenance-of-way facilities were in Millvale
    Penn Park is on the south side of the river although i have not seen
your map.
The Light Rail Line calls the Amtrak Station Penn Park,
   Half of those routes were joint or common trackage with other routes
so track cost was shared by far more cars than those routes used.
   To greatly oversimplify, the Spring  Garden and Spring Hill
population moved out to the Drake and Library lines where  the trip
length went way up,
   True, those lines could not survive the population exodus, In 1947, I
bought a new house on the Charleroi (now Library) line for $ 9,500
dollars with only  five percert down. Had I bought on Spring Hill in the
old City I would have needed 30 percent down for an old house with city
taxes. The real estate lobby engineered  the fligt to the suburbs.   
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