[PRCo] the WABCO PAT-Metro study

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
wrote:

> But when the tunnel bypasses around Laurel Hill and Sideling/Rays Hills
> opened, they simply shoved the old mile posts over onto the new highway.
> Hence the are not mile post but markers.   They are not 5,280 feet apart in
> those areas.
>
>
The Laurel Hill bypass is longer. The other, I don't know. At some point I
will bike it, but who knows when.


> The Pennsylvania Railroad did the same thing as the old Philadelphia and
> Columbia Railroad was relocated in the late 19th and early 20th century.
> I was told by an engineman that there are only two locations between
> Philadelphia and Harrisburg where mileposts are precisely 5,280 feet apart
> … the engineman know them and use them for checking speedometers.
>

I have track charts covering much of the PRR, at least for the moment. Each
one shows how many feet are actually in each "mile"


>  The closest mileposts that I know of are right here in Lancaster ….. in
> April 1929 the old downtown station was closed, the line through downtown
> was broken and the old freight bypass became the new mainline …. and there
> are two mileposts hidden underneath the platforms in the new 1929 station!
>   In all, roughly three miles was removed from the railroad … my 1930
> Official Guide shows just under 104 miles from Broad Street Station to
> Harrisburg but the true distance was about 103 miles.
>
>
>

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Daria Phoebe Brashear
AuriStor, Inc
dariaphoebe.com



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