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

[Herb Brannon]

I have an East End sign; the only strange aspect is 88-Frankstown Short.
Buses did not have this aspect. These trips turned right onto Homewood
Avenue from Frankstown, then left on Felica Way (behind Homewood Car
House/Shops) to Braddock, left Braddock, left Frankstown and back to the
city. I did operate, several times, an old PRCo painted 1600 series car
(number forgotten) which had "Gotham City via Batcave" on the front sign. I
would use that sign when going back to SHJct. People did notice it, too.


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell
<pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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;
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> 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.
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> I also caught the distinction between 98 and 99.
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> 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.
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> Do you have any of the rollsigns with 46 or other 'unusual' destinations.
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>  Phil
> Without  a   'coast'   but  not  a   'cause.'
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Herb Brannon
On America's North Coast