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 #163733  by espee
 
Prety impressive. I just spent some time on it. Kinda of scary tho...makes you wonder how often you are being watched :-)

 #163976  by Cosmo
 
There's better, more recent and in color stuff out there.
Googlearth is one

 #174708  by rhallanger
 
I agree, google earth is MUCH better, plus you can turn on a railroad layer and will show the approximate location of most railroad lines (including abandoned c. 1970-1980 U.S.)

 #245838  by Engineer Spike
 
Could you give a link to the Google? My uncle and I traced much of the Central New England ( Hartford, CT to Campbell-Hall, NY ) about 10 years ago.
-Spike

 #245840  by Nicolai3985
 
http://earth.google.com/

They recommend that you have a broadband internet connection - the amount of map data transfered to your computer is pretty high. Other hardware requirements are listed on the site, but if you're not savvy in that area you can always just try to see if it works.

It's a relatively simple program to use, and some of the features make it well worth learning.

-Nick

 #245997  by RussNelson
 
Ahhhh, but with NASA's World Wind, you can load up my shapefile of New York State Railroad Routes, and trace every railroad ever graded in New York State.
World Wind: http://worldwindcentral.com/
My shapefile: http://russnelson.com/nyrr/

That same data is also availlable plotted (one line at a time) on Google Maps:
http://rutlandtrail.org/list.cgi

Yes, I know, it's just for New York State. In principle, though, other people could do the same thing for other states. It's a metric buttload of work, but it's only taken me two years of very part-time work and research. My discovery rate for new lines is down to one every other month.