[PRCo] April 18, 1931 - Proposal to Save Butler Line

[Fred Schneider]

No way I can trump "not in Harmony" with "travel to Mars."   Yins are being very punny.

Me thinks there were too many old timers who wanted to stay back in 1915 but didn't understand that by 1931 almost all the rural families had a motor car (or as it was called in eastern Pennsylvania, a machine).   Of those 70,000 people, I'll bet if you looked at the passenger revenues collected versus the one-way fare from Pittsburgh to Butler and the total passengers carried, you might find the same thing I did analyzing the Lancaster system and that is that most passengers were only riding a couple of miles.   In the case of the Harmony route, I'd almost be willing to bet that the cars were empty on most trips through the middle of the route and that most passengers rode only for a mile or two into Butler, or the last couple miles from Allison Park or Glenshaw into Etna.

I have no clue what kind of railroad commuter service the B&O had then … that's Bob Rathke's area … but I suspect even in the teens the people who wanted to go from Butler to Pittsburgh used the mainline trains because they were faster.


On Apr 29, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

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> Ed
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> Yes, it is quite true.  Their (PRC) views were not in Harmony with folks 
> trying to save the interurbans.
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> Dwight
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>> PRCo didn't have any money, either.  I don't think they were interested in
>> travel to Mars.
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>> Ed
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>> Pittsburgh Railways is asked to take over the line.
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