[PRCo] Re: another incline?

robert netzlof wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
Mon Feb 4 18:57:21 EST 2008


--- Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:

> http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/[bunch of stuff
snipped]
 
> pasted it together, but, tinyurl is probably yout friend.

Yeah, but I was in a hurry.

However, in the copy in my sent mail, it didn't wrap. Also, the copy
lodged in the list archive isn't wrapped.
 
> hm. they show no tipple, just a direct connection to the line that
> crossed 
> carson.
 
> i wonder what that means.

I know not these things. Maybe there was a track from the tipple to
the steel mill and the map maker just ignored the tipple? Could be
the map is more a schematic than an actual map?

> i wish photography of the south side did not seem so sparse.

Amen, along with a bunch of other places. But back in the 19th
century, photography was a black art, reserved for Important Stuff.



Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob



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