[PRCo] right of way track maps

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I seem to recall Leo Sullivan telling me last spring that this was being
> done.
>
> We have a scanner capable of doing this in the PTM Archive.  We would need
> to make a carrier (they are limp linen) and find someone experienced and
> with the time to scan the book of drawings.  They are not in "valuation
> map" format like MBTA's but rather in sections of a very large system map.
> The pages are something like 24 x 30 inches.  Then we would need a place to
> post them.  Perhaps Daria could be of help here.
>

Now that I'm remote it's perhaps one of the only ways I can help. It's
unclear when I will be back to Pittsburgh again, aside perhaps from a
single-day trip at some point to see my physician. But I still have the
ability to allocate arbitrary pools of computing resources and have the
intent to rebuild my own website with my employer's current product backing
it, soon, so storing files to share is "easy"


>
> We are presently making huge changes in our Archive - we have expanded
> into renovated space next door to our existing rooms and are still in the
> process of laying things out.  Things are moving but there are only so many
> volunteers and so much time.  Our curatorial priorities are moving fragile
> paper into archival containers and beginning to scan engineering drawings
> (they too are endangered).  These are slow processes but are needed to
> protect the collection.
>
>
Makes sense.


> Ed
>
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>
> While biking from the hospital whose voice clinic I visited this morning
> to get paçzki, I followed the E Heath St line for a bit and started
> wondering about track work.
>
> Conveniently, the Boston right of way track maps have all been scanned by
> the folks that run the MBTA gift shop and are online or can be ordered as
> reprints!
> http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=15914
>
> This begot an idle muse that I wish the PRCo maps were similarly available.
>
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