[PRCo] Re: Funeral cars

[Schneider Fred]

Very interesting commentary on a ay of life before the automobile.    
I guess the next thing we would want to know is when the roads were  
paved from Philadelphia up to Glenside in Montgomery County ... my  
instincts suggest not before about 1918.

That guaranteed annual return to PRT would equate to about a quarter  
of a million dollars today.   That's a lot of funerals.

On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

> Cox says the car was built at the suggestion of the Hillside  
> Cemetery who guaranteed a minimum $2500 annual return to PRT for  
> seven years. The car was built on Brill order 18358, booked on 23  
> May 1912 and cost $4300. The car was made to resemble as closely as  
> possible a Near Side car. Hillside Cemetery had priority on the use  
> of the car and provided about 75% of the revenues, but other  
> cemeteries were allowed to use the car when it was not otherwise  
> scheduled. It was dismantled in 1932.
> Bill
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> not sure! Question for Dick Vible who is wise in all such matters- 
> will ask
> him @ East Penn this Friday.
> The car had a door for the casket and was furnished differently  
> than the
> usual Nearside decor. I seem to recall old PRT track maps showing the
> Hillside Cemetery siding.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:47 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Funeral cars
>
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>> So Rich, did PRT have 1500 Nearsides with 1 converted to the
>> Hillside .... or 1501 with the Hillside built as a separate order?
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>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Richard Allman wrote:
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>>> actually, Ed Torpey's was called Fernwood-the PRT car was the
>>> Hillside. I
>>> did some research a few years ago and it turns out that my
>>> great-grandmother, Jane Bunting had her last ride on the Hillside
>>> in 1919,
>>> from a funeral home in Kensington section of the city, over
>>> whatever routes
>>> to Old York Road, and then out Route 6 to Hillside Cemetery in
>>> Glenside. PRT
>>> had a siding at the cemetery. My mother had told me of the trip the
>>> family
>>> made on that January, 1919 day. The car was a Nearside.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "BobDietrich" <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net>
>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:15 AM
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Funeral cars
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm surprised that no one mentioned the Philly Funeral car - or
>>>> did I miss
>>>> it.  It was called Fernwood.  I only know this because in 1973 Ed
>>>> Torpey
>>>> won
>>>> an East Penn contest with his model of the car.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf
>>>> Of Ken
>>>> and
>>>> Tracie
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:40 PM
>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Funeral cars
>>>>
>>>> I looked up the following information:
>>>>
>>>> Chicago's funeral car was simply "Number One." Also read that St.
>>>> Louis
>>>> and
>>>> Buffalo had funeral cars.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen photos of  Duluth, Minnesota's trolley "fire engine."
>>>>
>>>> K.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
>>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:51 PM
>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Funeral cars
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> PRC did not.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On  
>>>>> Behalf Of
>>>>> Phillip
>>>>> Clark Campbell
>>>>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:05 PM
>>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Funeral cars
>>>>>
>>>>> Did PRC have any funeral cars?  Assume not; seems to be  'more'
>>>>> of a
>>>>> Western-US phenomenon doesn't it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil
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