[PRCo] Re: Penn Pilot

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Jerry,

Most likely you neglected to click the "Display Historical Photo" button.
Then click on the yellow dot in the center of the patch of trees southwest
of "MELDON AV" on the base photo.  You will bring up photo APW-76-06, which
covers the area from Black Diamond to Donora and was taken May 24, 1939.

Ed  

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
MATT Matsick
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 3:48 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org; pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Cc: Mark McGuire
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Penn Pilot

Mark, Fred, Ed and gang,  Fred said he was waiting to hear what I had to say
about the old Donora map, when I pull up the 1937-42 map of Donora, it is a
"modern" or up todate map, and of course
I could not find a Donora Interurban anywhere?   HELP how do I get to an old
map.
>From the RIVER CITY by the Sea! 
Jerry "Matt" Matsick
J A C K S O N V I L L E, Florida ! 


-------------- Original message from "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>:
-------------- 

Agreed Ed. I was mesmorized(sp.?) by the detail. You can see trolley cars in
various locations including, of course, Tylerdale and Tunnel Yard. As you
pointed out to me the reason I had trouble following the line north of
Cheeseman 
> was because rt. 19 did not yet exist then. Perhaps I should reacquaint 
> myself with the group by saying "Hi!" It has been awhile since I posted.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -- "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote: 
> Some of us have been using this resource for two or three years now. 
> Two series of photos are available; two aren't yet ready. The latest 
> is about 1971. The 1956-61 and 1946-52 are not available, but that 
> 1937-42 bunch is a very valuable lot.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Fred Schneider
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 5:26 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Penn Pilot
> 
> Give you guys something to play with all weekend (if the wives don't 
> have something more important).
> 
> Penn Pilot has a series of aerial photographs of the entire state of 
> Pennsylvania taken starting in 1937 and going up to the present. The 
> earlier 1937-1942 stuff is very high resolution. I can actually pick 
> out the trolley cars on a print of Lancaster city (3 miles x 3
> miles) that measures about 3 feet by 3 feet. So I'm certain if someone 
> is nutty enough to do it (and are not all railfans nutty?), then you 
> should be able to look at the aerial photographs of Allegheny and 
> Washington and Fayette and Washington counties in 1940 and find the
streetcars.
> 
> The first link leads to the home page. 
> 
> The second link leads to a page I was looking at in Lancaster County 
> ... one of the April 24, 1940 views. I can guarantee as I'm typing 
> that you will have to paste it back together because it will be split 
> by the time you get it.
> 
> I took one of the big prints of Lancaster City to the Lancaster County 
> Historical Society today and when I left, one of the research girls 
> was on line looking at Penn Pilot to see what else she could find and 
> marveling at the detail. I suggested that she would be deserting her 
> work and look at Lancaster from the air 68 years ago all afternoon. 
> She said, "Probably."
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/
> 
> http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=..%2Fhtdocs%
> 2Fmapserver%2F40%2F42071%2Fm79080.map&layer=doqs&layer=countyu
> 
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