RAILS SINGING IN HARMONY ON "THE HARMONY LINE"

This still from an actual silent movie from the pre-WW1 era, shows a high-speed interurban trolley of the fabled PITTSBURGH, HARMONY, BUTLER & NEW CASTLE RAILWAY as it came boiling down the tracks, hissed to quick stop to discharge riders ((including the man in the white hat)) and in a flash, was gone again. Off on its run between New Castle and Pittsburgh, PA.

This was filmed at WEXFORD "T" STATION.

As a child decades later, yours truly often visited Aunt Dorothy & Uncle John's farm along Hope Lutheran Road in what is now Cranberry Township. Snaking along their farm property was the long abandon scar of this "T" systems right of way.

These big interurban "T" cars included plush seat, a restroom and one of the cars was set up to show movies. They would snake down into Pittsburgh's North Side in the valley which now carries highway I-79 North, then into Pittsburgh proper over the rails of the Pittsburgh Railways---now PRT.

Operations carried on until August of 1931. At many spots, scars of this long ago light-railway can be noted through the Pittsburgh North Hills.