[PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?

robert netzlof wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
Tue Sep 25 00:53:07 EDT 2012


--- On Tue, 9/25/12, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was route 906 on the west shore of
> the river ever? I assumed it was
> always on the other side, only, and
> thus the caption is incorrect?

Apparently it was not. According to www.pahighways.whatever, 906 was signed in 1928. The elderly roadmaps at PennDoT's site show 906 on the east shore in 1930, '40, and '50. 

I suppose it could have been somewhere else in the 1928-1929 period, but I would think it unlikely. 

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob




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