[PRCo] Re: Harmony Route

[Fred Schneider]

Considering the turmoil in my own life, please accept my apologies  
for not recognizing if someone else also commented on this in the  
last month.

1.   The expression Harmony Line applies to the bus company and not  
the electric railway.   The railway was the Pittsburgh, Harmony,  
Butler and New Castle Railway Company.       Harmony Short Line Motor  
Transportation Company was the bus successor.  The village of Harmony  
was located near Zelienople.

2.    The idea of 75 mph operation strikes me as sort of an urban  
legend.    I've been looking on line for a timetable to see if I can  
get a clue to speeds.   Peak speeds up to 60 miles per hour should  
allow you to cover a line in an average time of about  20-22 miles  
per hour.   Top speeds closer to 50 might give you something like  
17-18 mile per hour ... sort of like West Penn.   Top of 75 with a  
stop for passengers every ten miles ... well, you'll get an average  
close to 60 mph.   But top of 75 with stops every mile?   Who are we  
kidding, you can't get a car up to 75 between stops a mile apart  
unless we push it off a cliff.   If you could, you might get an  
average of 23 miles per hour.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1444/penna1.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1444/penna2.htm

http://www.amcap.org/history/alleghenycnty/harmony.shtml




On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> Have you folks seen this link about the Harmony Line with some fine  
> photographs?   If you have, and this is a duplication, please forgive.
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