[PRCo] Re: Riverview Loop and PRC Northbound Interurbans

[Jerry Matt Matsick]

Jim 
Thanks Good Buddy!   I knew there had to be a good reason!  Thanks for the "detailed" description.  I sure would like to have seen that happen!  Of course traffic
back then was not near as heavy as the mid or later 1950s.

Jerry Matsick
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-------------- Original message from Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>: -------------- 


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> > Jerry wrote: 
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> > Jim, you reference Pgh Interurban cars using the WYE 
> > at Riverview, in all my years living there I never 
> > experienced a Pittsburgh interurban Car doing a 
> > backup turn around at the Riverview Wye? 
> >What was the reason for not going south to 
> > Charleroi and points south? 
> > Would passengers transfer to a Charleroi or Donora Car? 
> > Thanks 
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> > Jerry M 
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> Rush Hour Trippers -- more people riding locally but not going all the 
> way to Charleroi -- one or two trips only went as far as 
> Riverview. If people wanted to go further they would have to 
> transfer here to whatever would take them to their final 
> destination. Same as 37-Shannon trippers which, in later years, 
> operated in rush hours only. People going further could wait for the 
> appropriate car to transfer. 
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> The 1949.09.11 Charleroi schedule shows two Riverview trippers -- one 
> at 4.26-PM and one at 4.56-PM -- both had a Charleroi car right behind 
> by 4-minutes downtown -- Charleroi cars ran every 30-minutes on the 
> hour and half hour. 
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> On the 1952.06.01 schedule there are 3 Riverview trippers: 4.26-PM, 
> 4.55-PM, and 5.20-PM. Interurban still running every 30-minutes until 
> 10-PM at which time it is hourly to Charleroi except that the 
> 12-Midnight and 1-AM trips only go to the Charleroi Car House. This is 
> Both Weekday and Saturday Service. 
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> The 1953.04.19 schedule shows some drastic changes as this is not long 
> before the final chop of Charleroi. Interurban running hourly, even an 
> AM tripper to River from downtown Pgh at 5.30-AM then 4.26-PM, 4.30-PM, 
> 4.55-PM, 5.24-PM 5.30-PM, and 6.30-PM. If the headway for 
> Interurbans was 30-min then the 3-Riverview trips at 4.30, 5.30 and 6.30 
> would continue on to Charleroi~!~!~! 
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> In 1949 the 10.30-PM trip from Pittsburgh arrived Charleroi at 12.37-AM 
> and on Saturday night / Sunday morning this trip left Charleroi at 
> 12.52-AM and went north only as far as Riverview~!~!~! Then it went 
> directly to the barn -- presumably to pick up the final rabble 
> rousers. This is *_Assumed_* from the schedules. PRCo could 
> easily have done this with a Donora car but those were slow vehicles and 
> doubt it was a local to make this trip. 
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> -- 
> *Jim Holland* 
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