[PRCo] Accident Overbrook 1958

[Jim Holland]

Early Sunday morning, October 19, 1958, an outbound Library car slid 
through a siding and returned to the main line, hitting an inbound Drake 
car.     22 passengers were injured, none seriously.     Pittsburgh 
Railways blamed wet rails for the collision which took place above Saw 
Mill Run Boulevard in Overbrook where Pittsburgh Railways has a high 
trestle.
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This courtesy of Mr. Richard Bowker who sent the info to  
*_The__Headway__Recorder_*  and was transcribed recently by Dennis Linsky.
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I have a 1957.10.14 Interurban schedule  --  Library and Drake operated 
on 40-min headways each thus 20 minute headways on Overbrook.     The 
First Drake car to leave the outer loop on Sunday was 8.02-AM - Library 
alone had Owl service
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*Jim Holland*

Studying *Pittsburgh Railways Company*

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

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