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

[Fred Schneider]

No, Sir.   Reesdale is down in lower Allegheny.   If 17 crosses Woods  
Run Avenue, that is the Superior Shadeland route and it then did have  
two different route numbers, 16 and 17.

This makes sense because Superior - Shadeland probably ran downtown  
in 1914.

The 17 in my lifetime was a shuttle line between the Manchester  
Bridge and the 6th St. Bridge on General Robinson Street that was  
created when 20 finally was allowed to cross the Manchester Bridge  
instead of using the 6th St. Bridge.

On Jun 7, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:

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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
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>> 17 goes over a high bridge across Woods Run.  More commonly known  
>> as Reedsdale.
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>> Concerning 21, reference is because it didn't go downtown.
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>> 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.
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>> 43 was a short turn on 42;
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> The listing in the scan provided by Mr.Lybarger indicated this:
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> 42-Beechview  (not 42-Dormont)
> 43-Neeld
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> Both are/seem the same don't they.
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> Phil
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>> 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.
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>> 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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