<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Stephen Titchenal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen@titchenal.com" target="_blank">stephen@titchenal.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Interesting thread that I just started reading. I checked the PRR valuation<br>
maps from June 1918 and found one location showing the Penn Central Railway.<br>
It shows the electric line following the old portage railway right of way<br>
east of Summerhill rather than crossing the Conemaugh and go up the hill.<br>
The section on the map corresponds to attachment 3 tracing the line on the<br>
penn pilot aerials. Whether the highway department kept the line from being<br>
used is not clear.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This looks more like tracing 5? If it were tracing 3, I'd expect at least some of the streets of Summerhill. <br></div><div>We know the streets were there in 1918 because they were there in 1914:</div><div><a href="https://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/maps1/id/18639/rec/1">https://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/maps1/id/18639/rec/1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, that old channel seems to correspond with a lot shown on the Cambria County mapping here:</div><div><a href="http://gis.cambriacountypa.gov/publicgis1/">http://gis.cambriacountypa.gov/publicgis1/</a>, as does the "Stone Box Co" lot</div><div><br></div><div>I attach a clipping.</div><div><br></div><div>And if I'm right, if it's truly tracing 5, you found the end of the line.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The line heading east out of South Fork along Maple Street seems to go up a<br>
rather steep grade if it followed the right of way traced on the penn pilot<br>
aerial. Perhaps it cut over to railroad street (RT 53) at some point? Or<br>
could it have used A Ct. to come into South Fork?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We know it followed a steep grade: the "city fathers" of South Fork installed a bumping block at the edge of town</div><div>because they got tired of runaways.</div><div><br></div><div>Also note the grade in the first two pics here:</div><div><a href="https://thetrolleydodger.com/tag/south-fork-portage-railway-co/">https://thetrolleydodger.com/tag/south-fork-portage-railway-co/</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Where is the reference to the stationing referred to? 72+85 and 79+15?<br>
7285' and 7915' so the starting station was about 1.4 miles away - which is<br>
about the distance from the center of South Fork especially when taking the<br>
more circuitous routes.<br>
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Next time I get back to the PRRT&HS Archive I will see what else I can find.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Awesome.</div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><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></div></div>
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