West Penn Today - We move on!

[John Swindler]

You could not have picked a better example then Allison, Derrick.

Ken J. - note the "old railroad grade" marked on this map that Derrick 
selected.  Your looking at the West Penn right-of-way heading towards 
Brownsville. The right-of-way continues through the "1100" notation near top 
of map and crosses highway 166 just above the top of the map (then goes 
through school property and heads towards "high bridge").  Use blue triangle 
to scroll up.

Just noticed.  Look towards lower center of Allison topo map selected by 
Derrick and note where West Penn right-of-way approaches Monongahela 
Railroad right-of-way and crosses creek just above Allison.  On left side of 
your screen should appear option to go to Brownsville aerial photo.  Do so, 
then zoom in on aerial photo to creek north of Allison (the railroad and 
highway will help) Do you see a bridge spanning the creek??  Your looking at 
the West Penn bridge.  (are these instructions making any sense?)  Looks 
like private property north of bridge, and Monongahela RR property at south 
end of bridge.  Would this be called "virtual railfanning"???

Enjoy

John S.




>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: West Penn Today - We move on!
>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > If you want digital (tiff file) versions many states have them online
> >
> > PA has its in
> > ftp://penne.deasy.psu.edu/pub/pasda/drg24k
> >
> > You can also look at them on terraserver.microsoft.com
>
>Example: Here's Allison, outside Brownsville:
>http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=12&T=2&X=746&Y=5534&Z=17&W=2
>
>this is part of a (actually, parts of several) 1:24000k map
>
>My intent is to set up, at some point, a service like
>terraserver.microsoft.com, but allowing overlays of known or suspected
>rights of way and street trackage to be projected onto the maps. No time
>frame for this yet.
>
>-D
>

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