<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>But when the tunnel bypasses around Laurel Hill and Sideling/Rays Hills opened, they simply shoved the old mile posts over onto the new highway. Hence the are not mile post but markers. They are not 5,280 feet apart in those areas.</div><div><br></div><div>The Pennsylvania Railroad did the same thing as the old Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad was relocated in the late 19th and early 20th century. I was told by an engineman that there are only two locations between Philadelphia and Harrisburg where mileposts are precisely 5,280 feet apart … the engineman know them and use them for checking speedometers. The closest mileposts that I know of are right here in Lancaster ….. in April 1929 the old downtown station was closed, the line through downtown was broken and the old freight bypass became the new mainline …. and there are two mileposts hidden underneath the platforms in the new 1929 station! In all, roughly three miles was removed from the railroad … my 1930 Official Guide shows just under 104 miles from Broad Street Station to Harrisburg but the true distance was about 103 miles. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trams2@comcast.net" target="_blank">trams2@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The Turnpike mileposts were renumbered when the extension to the Ohio line was opened in 1951...Irwin was now at 67 instead of 0. What's been going on lately is a replacement of the tiny tenth-mile markers along the side with much larger signs.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I'm thinking in terms of they remeasured where the tenths hit. Wasn't it at 80.4? I could swear it wasn't yesterday. <br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Daria Phoebe Brashear<br></div><div>AuriStor, Inc<br></div><div><a href="http://dariaphoebe.com/" target="_blank">dariaphoebe.com</a><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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