I've been lurking on your board after coming here as a result of chasing down abandoned lines, as part of my "benchmark hunting" hobby (looking for those National Geodetic Survey disks which have a way of being located along ROWs).
As a Winchester resident, I'm sorta interested in the Woburn Loop, and saw a couple of threads speculating on its old layout and terminus details.
So the other day I went over to the Woburn Public Library and found a large tome of old maps of the Woburn Loop, showing all its branches, sidings, roundhouses, stations, etc., as they existed about 1850, 1895, and 1925. The problem is that the maps are photocopies of much larger originals, so they're bound together in a way that makes continuity between the pieces difficult to obtain.
My question is, would it be worth the effort for me to try to unscramble these sub-maps into a complete picture of the Woburn Loop's layout within Woburn for these different time periods, or does this information (or complete map) already exist somewhere else? And if I work on this project and eventually succeed, is there a useful place (or format) in which I could put the result?
Thanks!
As a Winchester resident, I'm sorta interested in the Woburn Loop, and saw a couple of threads speculating on its old layout and terminus details.
So the other day I went over to the Woburn Public Library and found a large tome of old maps of the Woburn Loop, showing all its branches, sidings, roundhouses, stations, etc., as they existed about 1850, 1895, and 1925. The problem is that the maps are photocopies of much larger originals, so they're bound together in a way that makes continuity between the pieces difficult to obtain.
My question is, would it be worth the effort for me to try to unscramble these sub-maps into a complete picture of the Woburn Loop's layout within Woburn for these different time periods, or does this information (or complete map) already exist somewhere else? And if I work on this project and eventually succeed, is there a useful place (or format) in which I could put the result?
Thanks!