[PRCo] Re: Penn Pilot

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

Ed - thanks glad you are driving the street car, I was lost!   It worked!
--
>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 "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>: -------------- 


> 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" : 
> -------------- 
> 
> 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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