Old Map Georeferenced

          Just wanted to share my georeferenced map of the Danville Pottsville rail road.  The railroad was a railroad that just never happened.  Today there are railroad lines that follow similar routes as the old proposed line but they were put in at different times and connected different segments of existing railroad.  The Dansville Pottsville both east and west ends were started but never finished.  The living legacy of this railroad that never existed was and is the Mahoney Plane.  This plane was an engineering feature designed for non-steam powered rail.
           It was interesting and time consuming georeferencing such an old map.  I used stream intersections mostly as reference points.  The actual line seems fairly close to where the actual railroad would have been.

Original Map: Plane and Profile Map by

Kennedy's and Lucca's Lithography, N 3rd Street Philadelphia, 1831

         My georeferenced map of the original map.  One of the streets really makes sense here.  Just above Pottsville in between the light blue line (georeferenced railroad) and the red line (current PA inactive railroad) is a vehicle road.  It is called "railroad street" and is to the left of route 61.  Most likely this is where the short stretch of rail leaving Pottsville was.  Really close for 13 referenced points on a map from 1830!

Georeferencing is an interesting tool!