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<DIV><FONT size=4>Ed, Derrick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Question related to this discussion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>How did this area come to be known as Cranberry? In my
day in the area it was called Warrendale.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>What changed? And why?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=trams2@comcast.net
href="mailto:trams2@comcast.net">Edward H. Lybarger</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, 09 November, 2013 09:18</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">'Western PA Trolley
discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] First Harmony Car Enters
Pittsburg</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">Unquestionably.
But who pays, and how do you get south of McKnight Road?<BR>Center of the
freeway works most of the way, but the subway connection would<BR>be
circuitous.<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org<BR>[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org]
On Behalf Of<BR>Derrick Brashear<BR>Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 8:41
AM<BR>To: Western PA Trolley discussion<BR>Subject: Re: [PRCo] First Harmony Car
Enters Pittsburg<BR><BR>On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Edward H.
Lybarger<BR><trams2@comcast.net>wrote:<BR><BR>> You have to wonder how
many other companies nationwide were built, <BR>> like the Harmony Route, to
satisfy the gigantic ego of the guy behind <BR>> it. It went the long
way to Butler (and probably drew just enough <BR>> traffic from the Short
Line to render it insolvent); New Castle was a <BR>> long way off and
although it had people, not enough of them wanted to <BR>> go to
Pittsburgh. In between was a lot of nothing, plus Evans City <BR>> and
Ellwood City. Oh, yes, there was also a nice camping area along <BR>>
the Connoquenessing that Mr. Boggs favored. He also favored the most
<BR>> expensive construction that could be had...only the
best.<BR>><BR>> Mr. Boggs built the line with the expectation that
everyone adjacent <BR>> to it would come to his department store. This
just didn't happen. <BR>> David McCahill compounded the misery by
acquiring the Short Line out <BR>> of receivership in about 1919...now he had
two companies that couldn't <BR>> earn a living, and when the bonds came due,
there was no money. Some <BR>> of the bridges sat for years after
abandonment because no one could <BR>> earn enough in 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
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