[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[John Swindler]

 In the picture, was that a route 55 car with Kennywood paper sticker behind 1600?????   > From: dwightlong at verizon.net
> To: pcc_sr at yahoo.com; pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:07:03 -0400
> 
> Phil
> 
> Thanks for those shots. It disproves my theory about using the normal Rt. 69 head sign with a car card in the window.  I had not seen that reading on the roll before.
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> Otherwise, what was in my note from this morning seems correct.
> 
> Now, can you or anyone else find a shot of a Rt. 69—or 68—car with a head sign specifically for cutbacks at Munhall? Or was my front window car card theory applicable to that?
> 
> Dwight
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> From: Phillip Clark Campbell 
> Sent: Tuesday, 01 May, 2012 09:19
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
> Cc: Dwight Long 
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> Mr.Lybarger;
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> Car 1613 was the first converted for interurban service and started in Jan-1946.
> Car 1614 followed Spring-1946.  I have the dates 'somewhere' but 'somewhere'
> is always difficult to locate.  In retrospect conversions seem 'slow' because it
> happened over a couple years for just a dozen cars.
> 
> Here is another photo I found with the 1600 and 1609 both displaying 69-Kennywood.
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>  
> Phil
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 8:30 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> 
> Looks like a Charlie Dengler photo.  Somewhere we have data about when the
> cars were converted for interurban service.  I want to say 1947-48 but don't
> have a date off the top of my head.  Of course, 1613 and 1614 were sent out
> to Washington beginning in 1946; the others followed after the experiment
> was deemed successful.
> 
> Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Phillip
> Clark Campbell
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:26 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> 
> Mr.Lybarger;
> 
> Here is a picture of 1614 on 69 at Kennywood loop before conversion to
> interurban.  This is obviously the mid 1940s; I don't know how long this
> lasted.
> I fouund tthis photo in the list archives.
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> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1614%2069%20OB%20Kennywo
> od%201945xxxx.jpg
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> 
> Phil
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:17 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> 
> Route 60 cars went to Kennywood at times.  Not sure about 69.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Barry,
> Matthew R
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:59 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> 
> A few weeks back, there was a photo being offered on eBay of 58 Greenfield
> on Loretta Street between Murray and Greenfield Avenue, with a date of June
> 1958.   The abandonment dates of routes 68 and 69 were in Sept. 1958.  I
> noted in this photo, that the wiring that would've taken route 69 on its
> loop from Greenfield Avenue back to Murray Avenue, had been removed.     If
> the date of the photo was accurate, I wondered if in the latter years of
> service, route 69 cars travelled further, perhaps to Munhall Loop or to
> Kennywood Park.
>