[PRCo] Re: I miss the Harmony Route...

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Long,

Classic they are.  Large, sumptuous, sink-in-the-seat comfortable aren't they.
Deluxe service is what comes to mind.  Pampering, almost too good to
believe.  And we missed it didn't we.  They are nice to see in museums
but riding in the trolleys own element is a whole other experience.


Phil





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> From: Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net>
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
>Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:58 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: I miss the Harmony Route...
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>Phil
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>That would be the 3600 series cars.  They were only five or so years older than the low 3700 series, but had all the drawbacks you mentioned.  Additionally, because of the baggage compartment, they would have been more difficult to convert to one man operation, although this could have been done (c.f. the IRR’s tasteful conversion of the ex-UTC 427-series).  But they still would have had a heavy, wooden car.
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>They were truly classic interurban designs, though.
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>Dwight
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>From: Phillip Clark Campbell 
>Sent: Sunday, 23 September, 2012 18:19
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: I miss the Harmony Route...
>Mr.Long,
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>I wish I saw the Pgh Kuhlman cars but they were gone about 6-years before my birth.  They were combinations as well and longer than any of the Butler cars.  A few Butler cars were close in length but many were only 46' or 48'; they always look larger in pictures.  Prc cars, of course, were single-end.  Handsome cars but also overly fond of electricity weren't they?  Heavy as well; they would do a real number on track and special work in addition to increasing electricity costs significantly.
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>Phil
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>> From: Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net>
>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
>>Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 5:16 PM
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: I miss the Harmony Route...
>> 
>>Phil
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>>That is not so far fetched.  Every photo I’ve seen of a Harmony Route interurban, even of the Gunboats, shows a combination car.  A bicycle could easily have been stowed in the baggage compartment.  Also, Harmony cars were two man right to the end so there was no problem with sufficient “person power†to hoist a bike up into the baggage compartment and to lower it back down to the ground. Probably even a small motorcycle could have been accommodated. But I’m assuming that Derrick’s bike is a pedal bike, not a motor bike.
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>>Perhaps Derrick will tell us more about his rides on those cars.  Before my time, unfortunately, although I’ve seen plenty of remains of the line.
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>>Dwight
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