[PRCo] Re: Allegheny County's new Transit Development Plan

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:32:01 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Allegheny County's new Transit Development Plan

Cars still in PRCo paint (non-rehabbed cars) had destination
signs reading 46-Brownsville when I was operating them.
Also, PATransit renumbered the original 47-Carrick via Tunnel
to 53-Carrick when the portion of Route 53, from 2nd Avenue 
to Brownsville Rd/Arlington, was abandoned. I have always seen
the Glassport routes as 98-Glassport (Pirl St Loop) and 
99-Glassport (Evans Avenue). When I worked out of 
East Liberty Division (bus) many of the former streetcar routes
still used the PRCo numbers, such as 71/73/75/76, 82/87/88.
The Forbes Avenue routes had been numbered into the
61-series (A/B/C) and the old PRCo Rt 60 had been changed to
64A along with the 85-Bedford which became 81C-Bedford. 
I asked someone in the station management one time why some 
were changed and some were not, he told me that people 
were becoming confused (nothing new) and a majority of 
customers complained that no more routes should be 
renumbered. They suspended the renumbering until 
the mid 1980s.

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Mr.Brannon;


These are good.  I believe it was in the 1940s when 46 Brownsville was
changed to 49 Beltzhoover;  whether or not this involved a route change
is unknown to me.

I also caught the distinction between 98 and 99.

I comprehend Pat changing 47 to 53 through the tunnel when that
was the primary i.e. only service on the line.  This does make sense
doesn't it.

Do you have any of the rollsigns with 46 or other 'unusual' destinations.


 Phil
Without  a   'coast'   but  not  a   'cause.'