[PRCo] Re: Map of Washington Interurban (9-12)

[Donald Galt]

On 8 Feb 2007 at 17:40, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Thanks for posting them Don.   And perhaps the comments below will  
> help Mark McGuire and some of the others from out of the area to  
> understand the maps. 

Ooh! Talk about a return on my investment.

I haven't time to go over all your observations right now, but you can bet I'll 
be examining them in detail soon.

After being without a scanner for more than two years I'm back in the land of 
the living. (Epson Perfection V100 - a generation or two newer than the one I 
dropped). Responding to Mark's request was one of the first projects in the 
queue. Haven't yet scanned any transparencies nor done OCR, but everything else 
seems familiar.

If you look carefully on page 10 you will see a dark smudge marking one of the 
houses just north of Cheesman stop. This was my best guess, aided by a local 
phone book, at the Lybarger spread in 1999.

Oh, and just west of there the "old railroad" is, unless I'm guilty of 
conflation, the Chartiers Southern which was fully graded and prepared but 
never turned a wheel. As late as the 1970s, the PennDOT map of Washington 
County clearly marked that line. Or, rather, the portion southward from near 
Eighty-four.

Ah, if only the originals of these 1954 sheets were available online somewhere!

Don G