[PRCo] Re: Vehicle assignment

[Boris Cefer]

It would be very interesting to observe all routine processes that were 
associated with everyday operation. Motormen, supervisors, car light and 
heavy maintenance workers, track and overhead maintenance crews etc.
Who can tell us how all this worked 50 years back in time???

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 10:27 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Vehicle assignment


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