[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh - Harmony

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

The Butler Short line used the PRC tracks to Etna, then continued
north west of highway route 8 thru Mars, Pa.where the shops were.
John Davidson, later bus maintenance manager for Harmony Short Line
buses and Community Transit in Tarentum worked in the Mars shops
prior to 1932.  He even worked several years for PAT.

The Harmony Route went west and then north from the PRC Millvale
line thru Ingomar to Harmony where there was the famous jct photo,
then branches to New Castle or Butler.

The interurban station in Butler was the bus terminal and may still be
there.  Its an impressive white building.

Harold Geissenheimer

ROGER Jenkins wrote:

> In the latest RAILPACE mag. they trace the CSX line from near Harmony
> and New Castle to Butler with what looks like Geodedic Survey maps but
> no interurban r-o-w appears on them.  Usually r-o-w shows up on these
> maps as dirt roads or even identified as former RR lines !!  The route
> of this line is a mystery to me as I tried tracking it down around the
> Butler area many moons ago without luck . They used huge steel bridges
> across some areas and looking at pix it seems to be up on the sides of
> hills. Pages 113 thru115 in INTERURBAN ERA.  The text says they were the
> first to use a 1200 volt DC system and imployed the use of concrete ties
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