[PRCo] First Harmony Car Enters Pittsburg

[Herb Brannon]

Derrick,
Same is true the opposite direction. Think how good it would be if PRCo had
held on to the interurban lines and PATransit had not been so anti-rail.
Today a double track line over the former 36 to a least Highway 19 and over
the former 35 to at least Finleyville could take hundreds of vehicles off
local streets. I think it safe to say both lines would be packed every
workday and every special event day.


On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at dementix.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net
> >wrote:
>
> > You have to wonder how many other companies nationwide were built, like
> the
> > Harmony Route, to satisfy the gigantic ego of the guy behind it.  It went
> > the long way to Butler (and probably drew just enough traffic from the
> > Short
> > Line to render it insolvent); New Castle was a long way off and although
> it
> > had people, not enough of them wanted to go to Pittsburgh.  In between
> was
> > a
> > lot of nothing, plus Evans City and Ellwood City.  Oh, yes, there was
> also
> > a
> > nice camping area along the Connoquenessing that Mr. Boggs favored.  He
> > also
> > favored the most expensive construction that could be had...only the
> best.
> >
> > Mr. Boggs built the line with the expectation that everyone adjacent to
> it
> > would come to his department store.  This just didn't happen.  David
> > McCahill compounded the misery by acquiring the Short Line out of
> > receivership in about 1919...now he had two companies that couldn't earn
> a
> > living, and when the bonds came due, there was no money.  Some of the
> > bridges sat for years after abandonment because no one could earn enough
> in
> > scrap value to justify the labor cost of dismantling them.
> >
> > Just another company that never should have been built.
> >
>
> While today, a fast rail route to at least Cranberry would be fantastic.
>
>
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