[PRCo] Re: Penn Pilot

[Rich Rockwell]

I used some of these maps to trace the Charleroi Interurban from Charleroi
through Black Diamond Hollow near Eldora park.  Maps with annotations and
comparisons to current maps are here:

http://eldorapark.com/maps/maps.htm
 
Rich Rockwell

-----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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