[PRCo] Re: something in beaver county...

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Smith's Ferry was a station on both the Youngstown & Southern and whatever
became the PRR line along the north bank of the Ohio River out of Rochester.
It was actually the end of a Y&S branch.  It's on the East Liverpool North
7.5-minute quadrangle, about 1/4 to 1/2 mile east of the state line.  The
photo appears to look east along the PRR or underlier, and may have been
taken at the western edge of what is now the Boro of Glasgow, immediately
east of the confluence with Little Beaver Creek.

The photo that was scanned for this was pretty heavily silvered, and I'm
having some trouble making out the detail near the locomotive.

Ed

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Derrick J Brashear
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:24 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: something in beaver county...


On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, robert netzlof wrote:

> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> >
> > http://www.west2k.com/papix/smithsferry.jpg
> >
> > (linked from www.west2k.com/pastations/beaver.htm)
> >
> > I assume it's an SEL&BVT car on the bridge, I'm not sure where
> > Smith's Ferry is...
>
> But the Geographic Names Information System knows. Try:
>
> http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form

I didn't bother with the FIP55 data last night, but Google told me it was
near Ohioville and Industry, which confirmed, or close enough

> which turned up:
>
> http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?S=14&T=2&lat=40.6475&lon=-80.5022
>
> > ...but it's probably along the highway between Beaver and
> > East Liverpool.
>
> So you knew after all.

Well, the stations page with a link to the picture claimed C&P, and it's
clearly in a river valley, and there was a ferry...

> I've found the GNIS to be very good at finding places, often showing
> the location of places which other services claim don't exist.

I actually carry a copy of GNIS on my laptop to use with a mapping program
called Xastir, which displays all sorts of data I got free. Very useful.
It also has address-finding as of last week, but not route-finding... yet.