[PRCo] Re: Car barn assignments

[Jim Holland]

 > f3 wrote:
.
 > ...Route 50, for example, logically belongs to Tunnel or
 > Carrick but at one time or another was a Craft Avenue
 > route. Carson Street might have gone to
 > Craft simply because it once had its own barn at 30th and
 > Carson and when it closed there were too many cars
 > to squeeze into any Tunnel,
 > which might have been more logical.
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"Dead Head" distance might also play a factor in locating the Car House  
--  Craft might be closer for an AM pullout to the outer end.     Yes, 
trolleycars didn't dead head but it is extra time to make the route.

Additionally, believe some turnouts and turns needed to be cut into 
Smithfield and Carson so the 50 could turn to and from the tunnel.    It 
was during or right after the war when the turns for the 32 were cut 
into the intersection to eliminate the X-Over just north of the 
P&LE.     Track diagrams of the intersection at various times will 
reveal this  --  I had seen some but don't remember where they are offhand.


-- 
*Jim Holland*

Studying *Pittsburgh Railways Company*

....................From 1930 -- 1950

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM)

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