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Below: The page out of the 1884 report on the amount of money was anticipated on getting into the South Pennsylvania Railroad coffers. Notice it even shows the passenger traffic on the route.



Ohio Pyle & Confluence maps
Now you will know the rest of the story.

I have been trying for a number of years to inform the owners of the bike trail along the old Western Maryland Railroad now a bike trail along the Youghiogheny River about this little piece of never before known piece of history. Well they just don't seem to listen so you will only hear it from me here.

Western Marylnd alignment along the south bank of the Youghiogheny was originally survey for the South Pennsylvania Railroad.

 

Above left: This Confluence map is dated 1884 and on the north side of the Yoghiogheny River is seen the B&O Railroad today CSX. However on the south bank is what is today the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail. However it use to be Western Maryland. But keep this in mind. Western Maryland never entered Pennsylvania until 1906. This map is dated 1884 and is the survey of the South Pennsylvania Railroad. Yes! the same railroad that is today part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Above right: The same map shows on this section the community of Ohio Pyle/Falls City The darker alignment on the north side of the river bank is the B&O/CSX and the lighter line to the south crossing the river twice is the South Pennsylvania Railroad.

Below left: The view from 1939.

Below right: The modern view from the sky of Falls City.

Mountain Craft Days

Every year I travel sixty miles to the east up the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a great place north of Somerset to Mountain Craft Days. This year the event will be Fri/10/11-Sun/10/12. This year I  focused on the 1938-1939 aerial photos against the South Pennsylvania Rairload Survey Maps. You will be able to compare the remaing work on the aerial photos against the survey maps. I enjoy this event and even the day after the previous showing I look forward to the next year.

Thanks to all.

Once again Mountain Craft Days was a great success and I want to thank all who came to the display and listened intently to the information shown. I enjoyed talking with everyone and thank all who purchased the book and DVD's and a few maps I had on the subject. The next coming year I will expand my display to show the areas south into the Western Maryland area that was surveyed by the South Penn in 1883. This will once again be compared to the 1939 aerial photos of that area including the Pinkerton Bend Tunnel and Confluence as well as Ohio Pyle and Connellsville.

See you next year at Mountain Craft Days. Somerset, Pennsylvania.



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