<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">We spent summers in that area in the late 1940's and 50's. We always called it Warrendale (Borough?). A place name for the intersection north of the Turnpike interchange was Crider's Corners.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">I never heard of Cranberry Township until the 1970's. Along the same lines, where did present day Seven Fields come from? I only started to hear that name (a real estate development?) very recently.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Dwight Long" <dwightlong@verizon.net><br><b>To: </b>"Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 11, 2013 11:22:23 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [PRCo] First Harmony Car Enters Pittsburg<br><div><br></div><br>Ed, Derrick<br><div><br></div>Question related to this discussion.<br><div><br></div>How did this area come to be known as Cranberry? In my day in the area it was called Warrendale.<br><div><br></div>What changed? And why?<br><div><br></div>Dwight<br><div><br></div>From: Edward H. Lybarger <br>Sent: Saturday, 09 November, 2013 09:18<br>To: 'Western PA Trolley discussion' <br>Subject: Re: [PRCo] First Harmony Car Enters Pittsburg<br>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><div><br></div>-----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><div><br></div>On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Edward H. Lybarger<br><trams2@comcast.net>wrote:<br><div><br></div>> 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><div><br></div>While today, a fast rail route to at least Cranberry would be fantastic.<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL:<br>http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/201311<br>09/384e53ff/attachment.html<br>_______________________________________________<br>Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20131111/66292148/attachment.html <br>_______________________________________________<br>Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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