[PRCo] South Fork - Portage Railway

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

Of course I now see the trolley noted in the underpass at the left of that
fragment, so your map must be right. I wonder why those first two
underpasses were okay and the third was not...

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Stephen Titchenal <stephen at titchenal.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So the val map shows it using the first 2 subways east of Summerhill?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> The only surprise is using those two subways.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Where is the reference to the stationing referred to? 72+85 and 79+15?
>>>
>>
>> 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=%2
>> 2276%22%20%22croyle%22%20%22crossing%22&f=false
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Titchenal
>>>
>>> Stephen at Titchenal.com
>>>
>>> railsandtrails.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daria Phoebe Brashear
>> AuriStor, Inc
>> dariaphoebe.com
>>
>>
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> --
> Daria Phoebe Brashear
> AuriStor, Inc
> dariaphoebe.com
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