West Penn Rys. map (fwd)

[Derrick J Brashear]

Looks like Bob sent this to owner-pittsburgh-railways instead of
pittsburgh-railways. Yay broken mail clients. At any rate, the map is well
worth a look. I'll see if I can do some digital enhacing of the colors,
and if so I'll send a message with a URL for that.

Thanks Bob...

-D


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:20:29 EDT
From: "Robert E. Rathke" <brathke at juno.com>
To: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: West Penn Rys. map

A portion of my 1929 map of West Penn Transportation Co. lines has been
uploaded to the Fallen Flags website, and can be found at:

	http://gelwood.el.wny.org/other/misc/west-penn-elec-map.jpg

This image shows only the southwestern portion of the map (be sure to
view the Legend box in the lower left corner), but covers all of the
Western Pennsylvania lines.
The lines are shown in 10 distinct colors.  The vividness of these colors
is very good on Xerox copies of the map, but they're not as bright or
distinct on this jpg scan.

The full map is 24X25" on canvas, with 10 hand-painted colors depicting
the lines.  The map covers an area from Cleveland to Baltimore, and from
Lake Erie to mid-West Virginia.  This map is believed to have hung in the
old West Penn headquarters office on Wood Street in Pittsburgh; I know it
made the move to Greensburg in 1955, and was being thrown out in the
early 60's when it was retrieved from the trash.

Enjoy!

Bob Rathke 7/28

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