Wednesday, March 3, 2010

After georeferencing my map and the railroads and buildings from 1918 and today I uploaded the map onto Google Earth and found some very interesting things:

A lot of the old buildings look to have been torn down and new buildings and pavement would have destroyed any footprints of the buildings or the railroad downtown.









One of the largest depots now looks to be a business buildings of some type. There is one rail that ends at a building in the middle of that "Y" which is probably just a coincidence but it was interesting






The only footprint remnants might be where the red building is. There is a faint outline left in the dirt. This is one of the only buildings that was not paved over.





Even though we were using data from a hand drawn map created in 1918 as you can see my railroad match almost perfectly with the dirt path left from the railroad.







I thought this was interesting you are able to see where the tunnel would have been and how and where the railroad goes threw the mountain.











I am not sure if the dirt paths to the right of the old rail road lines were once the actual track because our map was hand draw there is definitely going to be some inefficiencies and one could be that my drawings were shifted to the left a little.






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