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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The description is lacking.  Cars were repaired, not scrapped, at Homewood
until 1968.  They were scrapped at South Hills Junction's Haberman Avenue
lot, except for the PRC cars remaining at Rankin, which were scrapped there.
Cars were never scrapped per se at Homewood.

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

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.
> 
> Here's the description of the photo on Historic Pittsburgh:
> 
> "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."
> 
> 
> Matt
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