Old Road route maps

For those of you who are into such things, here is a fairly generous resource

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrmapRailro01.html

Some of those maps are for roads never built, while others are for routes I’ve heard people lament that the maps in question no longer existed.

AntiGates…Good web site…for those of us who have that interest…

I thought the plans for the “Ft Wayne and Southern” complete with a tunnel under the Ohio River,… was a trip.

Not to mention the "Toledo, Peoria, & WARSAW!!

The things one learns…[:)]

…I must look at that site some more and zero in on my home area in Somerset Co., in Pennsylvania…Lots of abandoned coal mine branches and some really had the “engineering put into them”…some with several Horseshoe curves one after the other and of course the never completed “South Penn RR” over the Alleghenies…which basically became the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1940.