[PRCo] Re: Vehicle assignment

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Cefer - what always fascinated me was the amount of city cars used on the Interurban lines even though they had 35 PCC cars dedicated to this service.  Even when operating to Charleroi and Washington the base car requirement was about 16 or 17 cars wasn't it - Pittsburgh to Charleroi and Washington.  PM rush may have seen another car or two for base because of increased running time and congestion on single track as well as other traffic.  This left quite a few cars for some kind of tripper service but of course some are laid up for maintenance purposes at times aren't they.  It also seemed that they used Air-Electric city cars for tripper service as opposed to All-Electric but then South Hills didn't have that many city All-Electrics in the early to mid-1950s  --  believe the Carrick 1770-1774 moved to South Hills upon Carrick closure but some of the original South Hills 17s were shifted elsewhere weren't they.

Phil



----- Original Message ----
From: Boris Cefer <westinghouse at iol.cz>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2008 11:49:46 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Vehicle assignment

You are absolutely correct, I was not going to waste so much money for a 
sheet of paper. I just sent it as an interesting item.

I thought we might start a brief discussion of PRCo trolley operation 
terminology.

Boris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:37 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Vehicle assignment


Mr.Cefer - This is very expensive for such a listing isn't it.  Save the 
image, enlarge to 1500 dpi in program like photoshop elements  (original 
size is 150 dpi) and then print it.  This will probably make it as legible 
as the original.  All that I see here is Time, Vehicle Number, Location or 
Track Number.  It doesn't say anything about to which line the car is 
assigned does it.  In some cases the Time and Location figures are 
identical - 1619 in the center column bottom of the first listing where time 
and location are 16.  Is that a total of 17 cars for the Am rush?  This for 
lines Library, Drake, Shannon, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53. 
This seems like a partial listing only doesn't it.
Phil 








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