[PRCo] South Fork - Portage Railway

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>

ok, on rereading, I gather
"He was willing that
we build the line through the St.James
cemetery. as the tracks are beside the
township road, on a strip separated
from the cemetery proper by a fence."

means what became route 53, because
"The body
was placed close to the winding road-
way that leads from the township
highway up through the cemetery."

combined with the mapping, shows that road leading up from route 53.

So the blue or red alignments on image 2, not the pink alignment.


> 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!
>
>
100 feet apart by station, 72+85 and 79+15, so the crossings were 630 feet
apart, one in Summerhill.
No obvious point for that stationing to begin tho.


-- 
Daria Phoebe Brashear
AuriStor, Inc
dariaphoebe.com



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