[PRCo] right of way track maps

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

And incidentally, I should apparently visit Ward Maps, seeing as they are
all of a 20 minute walk from the coffeeshop I usually work from (including
right now).

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 5:30 PM
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>> Subject: [PRCo] right of way track maps
>>
>> 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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>> Daria Phoebe Brashear
>> AuriStor, Inc
>> dariaphoebe.com
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