[PRCo] Re: Destination Numbers Effective March 1, 1914

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

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> From: John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2008 7:17:40 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Destination Numbers Effective March 1, 1914
> 
> 17 goes over a high bridge across Woods Run.  More commonly known as Reedsdale.
> 
> Concerning 21, reference is because it didn't go downtown.  
> 
> The two paired routes were the Bloomfield loop and the Forbes-Shady-Penn loop; 
> sort of an inner loop and an outer loop. Different numbers were to indicate 
> clockwise and counter-clockwise.
> 
> 43 was a short turn on 42;

The listing in the scan provided by Mr.Lybarger indicated this:

42-Beechview  (not 42-Dormont)
43-Neeld

Both are/seem the same don't they.


Phil



> 41 was a short turn on 40; 65 and 66 were short turns 
> on 64; and I'm wondering if 37 was short turn on 36???  Fairhaven was Frederick 
> St. in Overbrook, if memory serves, and both 36 and 37 were shown on a 1917 map 
> as going out what's now the Overbrook line.  35 was a West End route at this 
> time.
> 
> The numbers were introduced in 1914, but the PRC system went through a period of 
> rationalization of routes within five years.  Shuttle routes were generally 
> omitted from the initial two digit route number system.  And probably didn't all 
> happen on one day in 1914, but this would require further research.
> 
> Joh
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