[PRCo] Re: Car barn assignments

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Mon Sep 3 14:48:09 EDT 2007


Carrick closed in the 1930s and all the lines went to Tunnel.   It  
reopened during the war, and then closed again about 1950 and all the  
lines went back to Tunnel.

On Sep 3, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> Yes, I am just studying it. But there were still several small car  
> houses in
> 1948 which means e.g. not all the "hilltop" routes were assigned to  
> Tunnel.
> 50 was assigned to Craft but is listed among South Hills routes.
> How about Herron Hill?
>
> B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 4:25 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Car barn assignments
>
>
>> Boris:
>>
>> You wanted a car barn assignment list ...
>>
>> Did you recognize that, except for  the shuttles, you were just given
>> such a list in the Louge list data?  All you need to do now is put
>> the shuttles in the correct barns ...
>>
>> 9 Charles has to go into Keating, for example.
>>
>> 12 Evergreen was also Keating
>>
>> 78 Laketon Road worked out of Homewood
>>
>> 17 Reedsdale worked from Manchester
>>
>> 24 Schoenville was isolated but assigned to Ingram
>>
>> 29 Thornburg worked from Ingram.
>>
>> 51 Bon Air worked either Carrick or Tunnel depending on which was
>> open at the time.
>>
>> 63 would have been Rankin until 1937 and then over to Glenwood.
>>
>> I imagine 52 probably worked out of the same barn that 50 worked out
>> of ... that was normally Craft.
>>
>> Fred
>
>




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