[PRCo] Re: Block numbers

[fwschneider at comcast.net]

I cannot give you a Pittsburgh definition but I can give a United Railways & Electric (Baltimore Transit) definition.   They were probably similar.   In Baltimore the block number was a schedule block on a route bid on and filled by a particular operator.
Route 15, for example, would have blocks 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 15-4, 15-5, 15-6 and so forth.   It told a supervisor that the car coming down the street was on route 15, that it was on schedule block 4, and then by looking at that particular schedule the supervisor could determine when that car was due at that location.

I imagine that Pittsburgh used the same scheme except that they omitted the route number from the block numbers, considering it superfluous because it was already on the destination sign.

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From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz> 

> Yes, the small number behind da windshield or above it on 17s. 
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> B 
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> > We may need a definition~!~! Is this the number displayed on the 
> > trolleycar itself or something that scheduling would use? 
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> > Jim Holland 
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> > Studying *Pittsburgh Railways Company* 
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