[PRCo] Re: Homestead and Mifflin 5

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Thanks to you and Derrick for solving a missing link in one of my PRC info sources, the 1914 route listing, in which latter-day Rt. 65 is conspicuous by its absence. I did not realize it was that much of a late-comer to the PRC fold.

So it was #507 in 1928.  In 1914 there was a different 507, PITTSBURGH AND EDGEWOOD.  However, it was shown as a route "not operated."  I guess PRC just appropriated #507 for the Lincoln Place line--and it fit right in, since #506 was HOMESTEAD AND HOMEVILLE, certainly a neighboring route.

Thanks!

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Thursday, 30 September, 2010 23:09
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homestead and Mifflin 5


  This source claims Laclede was merged into St. Louis Car in 1903.

  http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/laclede.htm

  The Harper Charlton reference work on car builders published by Interurbans also gives a 1903 date.

  I really don't have time to read the Electric Railway Journal to see they confirm it.   

  The Homestead and Mifflin came under supervision of Pittsburgh Railways on April 1, 1928 and began operating as route 507 (destination 65).  

  On August 24, 1928 it is shown as a shuttle operating between Lincoln Place and Main and McWhinney and 8th Avenue, Homestead.

  On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

  > http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/pa/htm/hmsr01.htm
  > 
  > This is rather late for a non-Pittsburgh Railways line, (1912) is it not?
  > This was presumably what was later route 65, and Railway Age says they
  > ordered the cars from Laclede; I guess St Louis Car came about between
  > the letting and the delivery.
  > 
  > -- 
  > Derrick
  >