[PRCo] Re: Car barn assignments

[Fred Schneider]

Smithfield and Carson had all the necessary curves.   I scheduled a  
fantrip in 1958 to use the curves from Tunnel into Carson.

f3

On Sep 3, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Jim Holland wrote:

>> 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.
> .
> .
> "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)
>
> http://www.pa-trolley.org/
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