This is just torture!
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scottychaos wrote:*what* is "just torture"?there hasn't been an active rail line to newtown since 1981 (83?), even though it"s technically listed as "temporarily" out of service. the newtown line is a bit of a sore spot for many train nerds in the philadelphia region.
it looks like a perfectly reasonable and normal map to me..
(Perhaps if you know, very well, that specific area you would you understand what the torture is?)
but for the rest of us, we have no idea what you are talking about!
not seeing any torture at all..
and im curious, I want to know what the torture is!
(im interested in maps in general, as a hobby) so better explanation please?
Scot
jtaeffner wrote:oh wow! thats pretty funny..scottychaos wrote:*what* is "just torture"?there hasn't been an active rail line to newtown since 1981 (83?), even though it"s technically listed as "temporarily" out of service. the newtown line is a bit of a sore spot for many train nerds in the philadelphia region.
it looks like a perfectly reasonable and normal map to me..
(Perhaps if you know, very well, that specific area you would you understand what the torture is?)
but for the rest of us, we have no idea what you are talking about!
not seeing any torture at all..
and im curious, I want to know what the torture is!
(im interested in maps in general, as a hobby) so better explanation please?
Scot
scottychaos wrote:yeah, for some reason map companies have a difficult time keeping up with the times when it comes to railroads.. I have seen current maps that list a line as belonging to the Erie Lackawanna Railroad..I have a recent Montgomery County map with lines tagged Penn Central.
JeffK wrote:yeah, but those little mistakes wouldn't account for something like Erie Lackawanna or Penn Central still being on maps today..scottychaos wrote:yeah, for some reason map companies have a difficult time keeping up with the times when it comes to railroads.. I have seen current maps that list a line as belonging to the Erie Lackawanna Railroad..I have a recent Montgomery County map with lines tagged Penn Central.
It sounds far-fetched but when I brought a similar gaffe to the attention of AAA's map people, they said they intentionally put in (supposedly) benign mistakes to help catch copyright violators. Apparently theft and resale isn't limited to music.
DeltaV wrote:I have a Nokia phone, and its maps show a lot of the 'suspended lines', including the full Ivy Ridge, Newtown, and West Chester (including the chester creek and the other 'oc...' branch). No stations, just the lines.That was the Reading's Plymouth branch. It actually ran from Oreland (the wye is still in place but now disconnected from the Bethlehem branch) to Conshohocken. It crossed Bethlehem Pike, Stenton Avenue, Joshua Road, Flourtown Road, Butler Pike, Germantown Pike and Allan Wood Road at grade. Most of the line has been totally obliterated and reclaimed by the adjacent property owners and Mother Nature but the ROW and bridge as you mentioned can still be seen bisecting the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Never a high density branch, it did survive into Conrail but the final death knell came with the closing of Allan Wood Steel. IIRC, it was finally pulled up in the early eighties.
It also shows the branch from Norristown to Oreland through Flourtown; I've been walking that with my family for decades and never saw tracks (although there is a bridge over the Wissahickon).