[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[Dwight Long]

Phil

In January 1946 1613 was still using B-2 trucks with some weight added for stability.  By February of that year the special trial trucks which had been under 1278 for tests on Rt. 37 were removed from that car and put under 1613.  The order for ten sets of B-3 trucks followed;  this was shipped by St. Louis Car Co. on 29 October 1947 on order 6305 which had been contracted on 22 April 1946.  SLCC at the time had a huge backlog of orders for complete cars;  this no doubt accounts for the delay from order date to shipping date. 

Hope this is helpful.

Dwight

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;

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.


 
Phil



----- Original Message -----
From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
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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

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Phillip
Clark Campbell
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:26 PM
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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.

http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1614%2069%20OB%20Kennywo
od%201945xxxx.jpg



Phil




----- Original Message -----
From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
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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.

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[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.
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