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

[Fred Schneider]

When I was yaking with EHL this morning it occurred to me I forgot  
one siding in the list.   You guys can figure out from the Allegheny  
County - Washington County line on the map and the roads.   The one I  
didn't mention was County Line siding.   Otherwise it would have been  
a long haul from Cremona to Van Eman.

On Feb 9, 2007, at 5:03 AM, Donald Galt wrote:

> 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
>
>