[PRCo] Re: Car house - yard policies

[Schneider Fred]

Not sure what you mean by policy, Phil.  If you mean a policy on  
where you parked cars for service.   Yes.

In later years, for example, the tracks along the road at Keating  
were for cars that just ran rush hour trippers.   This is where the  
5500s were until 1954.   After that you would find 1000s and 1100s  
along the road.

Deeper into the yard to the right (east) of the barn were used by  
cars that were used in regular full-time service, i.e. the 1600s and  
1700s.

I suspect that they might have had one track on with certain 1690s  
were placed because there were only certain cars that were allowed on  
21 Fineview.

And, if my memory works, the two or three double end cars needed to  
protect the schedule of one car on 12 Evergreen and one car on 9  
Charles were on the right most track (I guess so only they would  
slide down the hill in a heavy rain).

There were also certain tracks where dead cars were dumped.


On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell  
> <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:
>> Did PRC have a general policy for 'parking' trolleys
>> at the end of the day?  Did this vary from barn to barn?
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> 1970s South Hills Jct Car House Pull-Ins (PATransit)
>
> Cars returning from downtown via tunnel (after AM rush) took switch  
> onto
> 42/38 outbound track. A 'Car Shifter' would be standing there  
> waiting and
> would direct the operator to the required track. Normally, in the  
> case of a
> 1600-series car still painted in PRCo colors, you would be directed  
> onto the
> former 40 outbound track. You would pull to the end of the track  
> (or to the
> leading (parked) car) and make your car safe. Sometimes you would be
> directed to park on a southbound storage track, sometimes you were  
> directed
> to go to Palm Garden Loop, turn around then park on a northbound  
> storage
> track, and sometimes you ran your car into the car house if the car  
> needed
> service. At times one of the 'hostlers' would do the parking for the
> operator. AM cars returning via Warrington Ave pulled across the  
> 35/36/37
> tracks and received instructions on where to park.
>
> Cars returning from the outer ends of any routes (except 49) in the  
> PM ran
> back (inbound) with SOUTH HILLS JCT on the destination signs and  
> made their
> last stop in front of the SHJct administration building. You then  
> proceeded
> around the administration building, stopping at the 49 car stop.  
> Here the
> till in the farebox was 'pulled' are replaced with an empty till.  
> You then
> proceeded across the 35/36/37 tracks and were told where to park  
> the car. PM
> pull-ins required more than just parking the car. They had to be  
> cleaned
> inside and out and placed ready for the next AM. Hostlers moved the  
> cars
> through the cleaning area and onto their final parking track. The  
> operator
> only placed his/her car on a close by storage track (directed by the
> 'shifter') so the 'hostlers' could take care of everything else   
> Route 49
> cars had their farebox 'pulled' at their last car stop (south side  
> of admn
> building) and were directed where to park from that point.  
> Interesting is
> when I used the designation "his/her" (two sentences ago) the "her"  
> referred
> only to Hattie Bartosik and Daria Washington. Today, the "her"  
> would refer
> to half the station.
>
> Noteworthy is the fact that the former 40 tracks were utilized by  
> parking
> cars (normally the 1600s still in PRCo paint and by the late 1970s  
> also
> rebuilt 1600s) pointing their respective direction on the outbound and
> inbound tracks. This meant the cars parked on the inbound track had  
> to be
> backed in. This was always done by a 'shifter' (I guess they  
> thought they
> were the quickest at doing this) who had to take the car to Palm  
> Garden
> Loop, turn around and come up the 42/38 tracks then pull into the  
> middle of
> the 35/36/37 tracks and back onto the inbound former 40 track. The  
> 'car
> shifter' always assisted in the backup move. There was always a lot  
> of gong
> ringing when this was taking place along with a lot of shouting. It  
> was
> interesting to watch.
>
> And that's basically how we did it between 1972 and 1980.
>
>
> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
>
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