[PRCo] Re: Map of Washington Interurban (13-15)

[Fred Schneider]

Politicians know what is best.   Right.

And Will Rogers had a great line to go with it.   "America has the  
best politicians money can buy."

On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:48 PM, aprochek at aol.com wrote:

> thanks for this, I will print and patch them together.  It also  
> helps me locate some Montour RR trackage, another interest of  
> mine.  I still think Pittsburgh would have been better off with a  
> high speed rail line from the airport to downtown over much of  
> Montour's right of way instead of alot of other projects.  But I  
> guess politicians always know what's best.  Case in point, the  
> Wabash HOV/busway tunnel seems to be money well spent - I shudder  
> to think that the original design included a new bridge into  
> downtown from the tunnel.
> Regards
> alex
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: galtfd at att.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:56 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Map of Washington Interurban (13-15)
>
> Here are some scans of 1:24,000 maps dated 1954, showing the  
> Washington
> interurban line abandoned. Ed Lybarger very kindly copied these for  
> me several
> years ago.
> The pages are numbered consecutively from southwest to northeast  
> and are of
> manageable size for onscreen viewing. The coverage of each is a  
> function of
> several factors: the arrangement of the xerox copies in PTM's  
> possession, the
> way I scanned my copies of those copies, and the way I cropped  
> those scans to
> get a series of uniformly-sized pages. In some cases - e.g. between  
> pages 14 &
> 15 - you will find the overlap excessive; in others - e.g. between  
> pages 7 & 8 -
>  there is no overlap at all.
>
> Don Galt
>
>
>
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