[PRCo] Re: 4366 on Nevergreen

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The following is what we have been led to believe.  The date doesn't match,
though, and our thought is incomplete, as well.  Any assistance will be
appreciated.

21  Fineview (3.0 miles; April 30, 1966, RT 18 min.)  This route featured
the steepest grades on the PRCo system (over 12 percent).  The inbound
routing was shared with Route 8 - Perrysville, but the outbound route was a
single track that left Route 8 just north of the North Side business
district and soon ascended a 12 percent grade.  Route 21 did not enter
Downtown until June 9, 1952, when its loop was extended from Federal -
Lacock - Sandusky - General Robinson - Federal Streets to Federal - Lacock -
Sandusky - 7th Street Bridge - Penn - 6th -

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Schneider
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:48 PM
To: Pittsburgh Railways
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.