[PRCo] Re: Craft Car House July 20, 1967?

[Fred Schneider]

Makes sense to me Matt because the barn is filled with buses.   



On Jun 8, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> One for the historians/archivers:
> Historic Pittsburgh states that this photo of Craft Avenue Car House was snapped on July 20, 1967.   Is that possible?   I knew Homewood was kept open for heavy maintenance of streetcars until June 1968, but I thought Craft was paved over almost immediately after the January 1967 abandonment of the East End Lines.
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> Here's the description of the photo on Historic Pittsburgh:
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> "Last trip for car 283 on its way to the Craft Avenue Car House which was used to transfer PCC cars to Homewood for scrap. The Homewood Garage Was Owned By PRC until March of 1965 When It Was Bought by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. Patronage ha d steadily declined from a high of approximately 289,000,000 riders per year in 1947 to approximately 63,000,000 riders per year in 1962. Its plant facilities were obsolete; its aging bus fleet required high maintenance costs; and the faltering heart of its system was a sprawling network of streetcar lines, a mode of transit abandoned by all but a handful of urban areas. The Homewood Garage was also the last stop of the steel-wheeled system Oakland line."
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> Matt
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