West Penn Today - Boo Boo

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Fri Jul 14 11:16:18 EDT 2000


On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, mrb190 wrote:

> Yes, indeed!  That is the biggest problem with attempting to trace an old
> carline.

Good maps, a GPS reciver, a navigator, and a willingness to go in circles

> I know that I must have come across some old p.r.w. paths on a drive up to
> Pleasant Unity a couple weekends ago.  There were some detours because a large
> section of route 981 was closed.  When we left Pleasant Unity, we side-tracked
> over to Uniontown and every now and then, I noted areas that appeared to support
> side-of-road trackage and weed-grown paths off of main streets.   Not sure if
> they were old West Penn rights-of-way or not, but maybe in the fall, I'll travel
> up there again and see.
> 
> Incidentally, did West Penn go to or through Pleasant Unity at all?

Near, not through the "center" of it.

IIRC east of it

-D





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