[PRCo] Re: 4366 on Nevergreen

[Dwight Long]

Fred

I only remember it as a shuttle.  When did running to (either) the North 
Side or the Triangle end for good?

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: "Pittsburgh Railways" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:48 PM
Subject: [PRCo] 4366 on Nevergreen


> The curious thing about this item, Barry,
>
> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/PghPress_10_20_51.JPG
>
> is that the route cards showed route 12 making a Sandusky, Lacock, 
> Anderson, 9th St. Bridge, 9th St., Penn Avenue., Sandusky St., North 
> Avenue loop in 1928 and the same in 1936-1937.   Then the transit guides 
> in the early 1940s showed the route truncated on the North Side (like 21, 
> it no longer went downtown).
>
> Now does anyone have schedules that show when service to downtown was 
> restored?
>
> By the way, there is another curious thing....   4366 was probably the 
> last double-end yellow car to every have been fully repainted.  I remember 
> seeing a color slide taken by John Seibert at Keating about 1950-1951 of 
> that car in absolutely pristine paint.
>