<div dir="ltr"><div>Derrick,<br></div>Same is true the opposite direction. Think how good it would be if PRCo had held on to the interurban lines and PATransit had not been so anti-rail. Today a double track line over the former 36 to a least Highway 19 and over the former 35 to at least Finleyville could take hundreds of vehicles off local streets. I think it safe to say both lines would be packed every workday and every special event day.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Derrick Brashear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shadow@dementix.org" target="_blank">shadow@dementix.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <<a href="mailto:trams2@comcast.net">trams2@comcast.net</a>>wrote:<br>
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> You have to wonder how many other companies nationwide were built, like the<br>
> Harmony Route, to satisfy the gigantic ego of the guy behind it. It went<br>
> the long way to Butler (and probably drew just enough traffic from the<br>
> Short<br>
> Line to render it insolvent); New Castle was a long way off and although it<br>
> had people, not enough of them wanted to go to Pittsburgh. In between was<br>
> a<br>
> lot of nothing, plus Evans City and Ellwood City. Oh, yes, there was also<br>
> a<br>
> nice camping area along the Connoquenessing that Mr. Boggs favored. He<br>
> also<br>
> favored the most expensive construction that could be had...only the best.<br>
><br>
> Mr. Boggs built the line with the expectation that everyone adjacent to it<br>
> would come to his department store. This just didn't happen. David<br>
> McCahill compounded the misery by acquiring the Short Line out of<br>
> receivership in about 1919...now he had two companies that couldn't earn a<br>
> living, and when the bonds came due, there was no money. Some of the<br>
> bridges sat for years after abandonment because no one could earn enough in<br>
> scrap value to justify the labor cost of dismantling them.<br>
><br>
> Just another company that never should have been built.<br>
><br>
<br>
While today, a fast rail route to at least Cranberry would be fantastic.<br>
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