[PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Your comment about 3700s and 3800s stored at Millvale is interesting.  I was 
unaware of this.

Apparently after their last tripper use the fleet was stored in several 
places.  I recall seeing some at Charleroi.

One Saturday in 1952 I was going to the Jenkins Arcade for my monthly 
orthodontist appointment and whilst standing in the shelter house at the 
P&LE station, I saw a long procession of 3700s and 3800s come out of the 
tunnel, turn left, and proceed out West Carson Street.  I had no camera and 
also no knowledge of why this strange move.  Of course I later learned that 
they were destined to the scrap track at Ingram.  Why they were moved en 
masse I know not.  It was a goodly number but by no means the entire fleet 
of both series.

Sewickley and Ingram were closer to my home town.  Ask if you need to know 
something--I might know.  But probably not.  It's been a long 
time--------------------

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: "Pittsburgh Railways" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 1:23 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen


> Ray,
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> I don't propose to be a know it all.   My grandparents lived at 3462 
> Delaware Avenue, which was one block off Perrysville at the Venture Street 
> carstop.   My mother's brother moved up to Cheswick the very day that 
> monster snowstorm hit in 1951 (the moving van was emptied but didn't get 
> back to Pittsburgh for several days).   OK ... now put this into 
> perspective.   We live in the other end of the state.   We go home to 
> Pittsburgh to visit Grandma and Grandpa.
>
> Now my mom wants to visit her brother.   My father, who had lived in the 
> Pittsburgh area from 1929 until 1949 isn't dumb.   He isn't going to drive 
> into the lower north side and then up the river.   Too many traffic 
> lights.
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> You drive down Venture to East and out East to Evergreen and over the 
> hilltop to Millvale and then  up the river ... saves a few minutes. 
> (Because of that route I also remember the aging 3700s and 3800s sitting 
> in Millvale Yard awaiting scrapping after PCCs went into service on the 
> interubans.)
>
> But in the process many times I saw the yellow car waiting at the end of 
> the 12 line.   Then when we went out for Grandpa's funeral in December 
> 1953, there were two double end Jones cars at Keating Car House.   Route 
> 12 had just been replaced with a Manchester - Evergreen bus.
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> I also remember details like the Laketon Road car because we lived in Penn 
> Township.
>
> But don't expect me to understand Ingram or Sewickley or Carnegie.
>
> Some places you look at and the mind instantly says, I know where that is. 
> Other things ... duh.   I just drove up Evergreen Road and turned there so 
> many times that it was imprinted.
>
> Fred
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> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:57 PM, rayprco53 at verizon.net wrote:
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>> Thanks a bunch.
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Ray
>> Sender: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>> To: PRCo
>> ReplyTo: PRCo
>> Subject: [PRCo] PRCo Evergreen
>> Sent: Sep 5, 2011 12:20 PM
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>> Hello. Found this picture at Historic Pittsburgh web site.
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>> End of Route 12 Evergreen? I can not line this up with
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>> google maps. Can someone help me?
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>> Thanks
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>> Ray
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