[PRCo] Route 56

[Fred Schneider]

Dave Hamley was the expert on which barns had which equipment.   I can only give generalizations.

In the early 1950s they were all Westinghouse except that Manchester, Keating, Millvale and Ingram had as many of the 165 GE cars as they could use and the remainder were at Homewood. Homewood was logical because the central parts storeroom was one block down the street.  

At some point, those rules were changed.   Seems to me that once Keating, which was the last totally GE barn, closed, its cars wound up at Tunnel.     But I could be blowing hot air.   I do know that the GE 1700s sat out of service for a while at Tunnel but there may have been some GE 1600s assigned there for a while too.

I thought what went into storage at Ingram may have been any tens and elevens that were no longer needed, regardless of electrical apparatus.

I sent a blind carbon to Dave.   If he chooses to answer me, he can and then I will post his answer.

Fred Schneider

On May 6, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

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> Fred
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> I was at Ingram during the last week and saw the tow car bringing in one of them.  It would be interesting to know what cars (and in what condition) remained at Ingram after the shutdown--or more importantly after connection to the West End was severed. I assume PRC removed the best of what was there prior to that, and that most of it went to Keating since Ingram was a GE facility AFAIK.
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>  From: Fred Schneider 
>  To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
>  Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 5:25 PM
>  Subject: Re: [PRCo] Route 56
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>  I just had a conversation with Ed … the usual family type conversation … how are the kids and wife etc. … but I also wanted to find out something else and that was, where was the end of the elevated in Dravosburg.   I had seen a picture looking onto the Mon River bridge from the west end showing the elevated structure and a curve in it.   Ed's answer was the el only came off the bridge parallel to McClure Street, curved around parallel to Maple Avenue and then ended.   
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>  The tracks that Ed mentioned existing today in Brick paving are in Maple Avenue.
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>  The private right-of-way that trended northwest to southeast from 3rd and Richland down to Maple near Hill Street appears to have become the four lane approach to the new Mansfield Bridge in 1948.     The new construction simple curved eastward and wiped out the old Hill Street and whatever was in its path and went onto the new bridge.  
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>  Now if I could just figure out who that sexy 17-year-old morsel was that I photographed in 1959 about to climb on a PCC at the Horseshoe Curve above  Dravosburg.   She looked at me and said, "Should I smile?"   And you guys know what a 19-year-old on leave from the army had on his mind at that moment and it's wasn't 1056.   (Picture attached)  (Hard to believe she would be 72 now.)    This was the same day that the West End lines were running their last trips and therefore this was the end for the 1000s and 1100s as soon as the equipment shuffle took place.   (
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