Looking at this map of the Norfolk Southern system
http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/000/348rzwzy.asp
I noticed that the former Nickle Plate line from Cleveland to Chicago via Ft Wayne, is not shown with continuity, the line seems purposefully broken in north central Ohio.
Is this so? Did NS abandon a segment of the old nickle plate?
The NS website has a better map showing the line in place
www.nscorp.com/nscorp/application
go to About NS and then click on System Map.
I wonder if the "trains mag " map is purposefully drawn wrong, or simply in error?
Looks like a “typo” to me - like there’s supposed to be a city marker there but it got left out.
That is a possibility, but I think the map drawer more likely blew it…
There isn’t a city of the size of the ones that are shown elsewhere on the map ANYWHERE near the location we are ralking about…Notice that detroit and indianapolis aren’t even shown, but you think they were gonna show Fostoria OH?.. heh heh…naw.
Maybe it’s a copywrite infringement “tattletale”? You know, an intentional mistake just to see if some other person decided to try and steal the map without paying fair use fees?
Quite possible that a map might include a red herring of omission or commission–in the 1960s, the leading road map maker showed a community called “Dot” in Southwestern Virginia near Pennington Gap.
There never was a “Dot” in Virginia. It was just a spot showing a fork in the road. No civilization at all!