[PRCo] South Fork - Portage Railway

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

Images start in South Fork and go east, 1 through 5.

Blue is stuff I'm pretty confident of. Red/Purple/Pink are possibilities.
Orange is the
track which I assume was pulled due to the state highway commissioner
finding.

Note that the blue path in 5 is in the Portage Railroad cut we
reasonably know the trolley line ended in, because it's 1) the only cut of
note
2) various sources put it ending in that cut 3) at least of the pictures on
the trolley dodger
shows it there, with tracks beside and 4) the "3 miles" attributed to it
would end right about there

Also there's a LIDAR image attached here, which is about where that orange
line is. Note
what appears to be a grade, basically a ramp from current route 53 to the
portal of the
"subway" on old route 53. That's the 3rd "subway" east of South Fork, but
neither of the first 2
is anywhere near 3 miles from South Fork, and both are before the portage
cut!

We know the route crossed the "curving road up to the cemetery, but whether
that is the pink line up on the
hill in image 2, or the red line closer to the road, I can't say. LIDAR
doesn't help: route 219
reshaped the area. (The red line is supposed to continue west since we have
no idea if
the line stayed along the road once it came down from Maple St.

Interesting questions are where the two crossings of route 276 (predecessor
of 53) in Summerhill and Croyle
would have been. I suppose I should figure out how to decode stations so I
can guess the distance between
those crossings!


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Didn't even think to look at LIDAR. That piece is the most obvious one.
> Further east, the US219 interchange clearly relandscaped where things would
> have passed the cemetary. I did see one interesting bit. I'll try to mark
> it up.
>
> By the time my partner and I got to State College it was dark, so we got
> ice cream and continued along; I opted not to hoof it along a hillside in
> the dark despite my curiosity.
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Robert Netzlof <rnetzlof at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/21/17, Daria Phoebe Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways
>> <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> wrote:
>> > Sure is what looks like right of way extended from the end of Maple St
>> on
>> > the ~1938 Pennpilot aerial:
>> > http://data.cei.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/cambria_1939/
>> cambria_1939_photos_jpg_800/cambria_052539_apy_82_29.jpg
>>
>> See also the attached snippet of the LIDAR hilllshade visualization.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
>>
>
>
>
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> Daria Phoebe Brashear
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