<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>There is a mistake in my original mailing. The Official Guide shows just under 104 miles from Broad Street station to Harrisburg but the true distance was closer to 101 miles, not 103. Over the years they had shortened it by about three miles. </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 6, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Daria Phoebe Brashear wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Laurel Hill bypass is longer. The other, I don't know. At some point I will bike it, but who knows when.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></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. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have track charts covering much of the PRR, at least for the moment. Each one shows how many feet are actually in each "mile"<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div> 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><div class="h5"><div><br></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><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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