Topomap link

[dwil89]

This is a link to a topomap site. It features USGS topomaps like you'd find in Trainhaser guides in some Railfan magazines....Some things requre membership, but not to view maps...Simply type in placename and you can choose magnification, and scroll in different directions once you select a map. http://www.topozone.com Dave Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsaltoonajohnstown

[edblysard]

Your map link dosn't seem to work....

Ed

[Modelcar]

....Dave, have done this for years with Terraserver.com....producing photos. Have sorted out famous and not so famous places on railroads to look at...Examples: Horseshoe Curve...Muleshoe Curve....and some locations near Friedens, Pa. of an old B&O branch {Boswell}, coal hauler....Near Friedens there was an area with 2 and 3 horseshoe curves almost end to end...Actually that picture is on the "net" someplace as I sent it in to them and saw it not too long ago...Can't remember which web site now...

[Modelcar]

ED....give it another try, I just put in my little home town in Pennsylvania and it popped right up....Be careful to follow directions, on 2nd screen one must click on the location name again.

[MP57313]

I've used these for a few years now. They include some of the detail that was "lost" when they were used for some of the DeLorme Atlases.

[tree68]

I'll second Terraserver - long a member of my Favorites list. You can even find long-lost ROWs if you look hard enough. Seems like I found color images on "Switchboard" or something like that. Don't remember exactly where - it's been a while since I looked one up.

[Modelcar]

Larry....The photo of the local horseshoe curves close together, I mentioned above, is on a long ago abondoned RR {60 plus}, years ago and it can still be seen....You can even find RoW's that have been plowed under in fields...{different shaded ground}, etc....Hard to hide a past RR Row....It is really a great place to find railroad places of interest.

[csxengineer98]

i like the terraserver....never let me down yet
csx engineer

[jchnhtfd]

here's another one: http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/

for topo maps in the New England/New York area, this one is superb, and free -- and the best thing about it is that it has most of the historical maps, too, which allow one to follow the evolution (or evaporation!) or rails in the area, and can sometimes help you make sense out of that embankment which started in east nowhere and ended up in left overshoe, or whatever.