[PRCo] South Fork - Portage Railway

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

The sad thing is my trip home took me right through Lewistown yesterday as
we needed to divert to near Fort Washington after leaving the
Penn State Creamery, not that I have any idea if I would have found anyone
there to let me visit the maps in the archives!

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Stephen Titchenal <stephen at titchenal.com>
> wrote:
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>> The left side of the val map includes the right side of tracing #3 with
>> the location of the PC Ry. track showing.  Tracing 4  actually corresponds
>> with most of the val map section. Tracing 5 shows the right side of the val
>> map.
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> So the val map shows it using the first 2 subways east of Summerhill?
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> Attached is a colored DEM of the area with my tracing of the Penn Central
>> Ry right of way in yellow and an elevation profile below it. The PRR tracks
>> in in Red, the original Portage RR is in light blue. The Southern Cambria
>> Ry is in purple.  When I have some time (maybe in a couple of weeks) I’ll
>> use the Lidar to create a more accurate elevation profile rather than
>> whatever Google Earth is using. I’ll also georeference the 1938 aerial.
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> The only surprise is using those two subways.
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>> Where is the reference to the stationing referred to? 72+85 and 79+15?
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> https://books.google.com/books?id=eZwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=
> PA521&lpg=PA521&dq=%22276%22+%22croyle%22+%22crossing%22&
> source=bl&ots=dQYfeBF-ZO&sig=2kLnEmDB35edOHzOubS2_XhbuWI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=
> 0ahUKEwjqqtSB19DXAhXp34MKHck2DWwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%
> 22276%22%20%22croyle%22%20%22crossing%22&f=false
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>> Stephen Titchenal
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>> Stephen at Titchenal.com
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>> railsandtrails.com
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> Daria Phoebe Brashear
> AuriStor, Inc
> dariaphoebe.com
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Daria Phoebe Brashear
AuriStor, Inc
dariaphoebe.com



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