[PRCo] Re: Block numbers

[Boris Cefer]

Thanks. At least something when not Picksburg. There is still a little 
chance someone may know. Our system is so advanced that you can even 
recognize AM, PM, split rush hour and night blocks.

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:07 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Block numbers


>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.