[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[Dwight Long]

John

I believe it's a 55A with Kennywood paper sticker.

That would be a much better sign to use for that service than a straight 55.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:10 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route


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