[PRCo] Re: Chartiers Southern (was: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...)

[Schneider Fred]

I received a phone call today from a friend who discovered that the  
concrete base pad and sidewalk for the car stop at Mohler's Church  
Road on Conestoga Traction Company's Adamstown car line, that was  
abandoned April 9, 1931 and dismantled that spring, is still visible  
in Google Earth satellite imagery.

So if PennPilot isn't good enough for you, download the Google Earth  
software and use it.   It's fun because you can look down on the  
planet or fly in at at an angle and look at the front of a building!

Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider (der Dritte)

On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Inadequate mapping is a primary reason I have embraced the aerial  
> photos of
> Penn Pilot.  They have cleared up errors in my own mapping as well as
> others'.  And nothing beats knowing what you are looking for, a  
> concept that
> cannot apply to professional mapmakers...they're too distant and  
> totally
> disinterested.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> galtfd at comcast.net
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:26 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Chartiers Southern (was: i don't know who E.T.  
> Brashear
> was...)
>
> Not so scary as regards PennDOT. Maps don't show everything, and it's
> particularly unusual for a highway map to show the course of a  
> railless
> railway. Scary, though, for how many decades we were limited to  
> 1:62,500
> topo up to half a century out of date.
>
> At first I wondered whether 1976 had perhaps been a major redrawing  
> of the
> highway map, but comparison with 1965 puts that to rest. Still,  
> over some of
> the country, USGS publication at 1:24,000 hadn't been completed  
> before the
> mid-1960s, so is it possible that this information wasn't yet  
> available to
> highway department cartographers in 1965? Or maybe it's just that  
> somebody
> in 1976 happened across the track of the old railway-that-wasn't  
> and thought
> it would be cool to include it.
>
> I have to say, though, that the enthusiasm with which I greeted the  
> highway
> maps online was inspired by the depiction of this one railway on  
> the 1976
> map. That enthusiasm was severely dampened when I discovered, upon
> comparison with the aerial photos, how carelessly PRCo and West  
> Penn were
> drawn on the 1940s-era sheets.
>
> Don G
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, galtfd at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, I still haven't looked at the 1965 edition, but the Chartiers
>>> Southern
>> isn't shown in 1957 either.
>>>
>>> So obviously the 1976 map incorporates new information, most likely
>>> from USGS
>> topos.
>>
>> Scary, since that's not really new information :)
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