I can't help but laugh - on the map on page 45 of the September issue of Trains, Trenton and Phillipsburg have been moved to Pennsylvania. I guess the Delaware shifted position when I wasn't looking.
Steve Troy
Well, Jersey Shore is in Pennsylvania.
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sctroy I can't help but laugh - on the map on page 45 of the September issue of Trains, Trenton and Phillipsburg have been moved to Pennsylvania. I guess the Delaware shifted position when I wasn't looking. Steve Troy
Trenton makes, Pennsylvania takes!
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sctroy "I can't help but laugh" - on the map on page 45 of the September issue of Trains, Trenton and Phillipsburg have been moved to Pennsylvania. I guess the Delaware shifted position when I wasn't looking. Steve Troy
"I can't help but laugh" - on the map on page 45 of the September issue of Trains, Trenton and Phillipsburg have been moved to Pennsylvania. I guess the Delaware shifted position when I wasn't looking.
Me too, Steve: Seems that TRAINS may have hired some of the Rand McNally Map making dudes! It used to be an inside joke among the Truck Driving Community...Each new edition brought about situations that effected our mileage pay {which generally was based on the R-M Household Movers Guides}.. Each year Dallas, or Memphis crawled closer, and closer together !
[Bear in mind the 'points' from which those mileages were based were supposedly, fixed- Brass Placks, mounted in stone or concrete, as the specific point from which the measurements were taken; ( they could generally be placed at a point in vicinity of the Main Post office in each community) ]
I am sure some of our Surveyor/Engineer types, like Mudchicken or Paul North could come up with logical explanations as to how and why, suppposedly fixed points could 'move'. Seasonal shrinkage of the road way??? [:^)
Sam, I believe that you are referring to benchmarks--which give the location and altitude fairly precisely. The only reason I can think of for moving one--which will render it void--is if the location is extremely disturbed, as in the destruction of the building (if it is on one). There is one at the front of the former UP station here. It seems to me that the first one I ever saw was at my grammar school.
MC can fill us in on more particulars.
Johnny
Benchmarks aren't necessarily reference points for mileage between points - they're more a fixed point in three dimensions (lat, lon, and elevation). And a fair sized town might have several.
I think they usually use "downtown" for point-to-point measurements, but even that can be questionable.
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Is the zero mile post still at the White House in Washington? I wonder how often it is referred to in determining distances from point to point.
The distance from the depot in my home town to the depot in the next town was 6.6 miles (ETT); the highway sign indicated that it was 7 miles.
zugmann sctroy I can't help but laugh - on the map on page 45 of the September issue of Trains, Trenton and Phillipsburg have been moved to Pennsylvania. I guess the Delaware shifted position when I wasn't looking. Steve Troy Trenton makes, Pennsylvania takes!
Zug: "Trenton Makes - The World Takes": (collective civic inferiority complex ??)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Trenton_Bridge
- Paul North.
When this Ohio boy saw the "Trenton Makes" sign for the first time (c.1970), I was more than impressed; in fact I think I had goosebumps!
It struck me then that Trenton must be a proud manufacturing city (as well as state capital), proud of her citizens and their products. The massive sign implies that Trenton makes a bunch of different stuff, not just one major product (e.g. the steel city) and is important in the world's economy.
I like that sign, especially at night, and I'm glad it's still there even though I'm sure it costs a lot to keep in good condition.
I used to drive between two small towns. Two lane county highway. Going west the signage declared it was 4 miles to the other town, but going east the signage declared it was 3 miles back to the 1st town.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Books have been written about survey points moving and related phenomena - so consider just briefly:
Paul_D_North_JrBooks have been written about survey points moving and related phenomena - so consider just briefly:
Can't recall where I saw it, but recently read an article about Australia having to do some serious recalculation because the continent has moved and nothing is in it's correct position according to GPS.
Norm
Norm48327 Paul_D_North_Jr Can't recall where I saw it, but recently read an article about Australia having to do some serious recalculation because the continent has moved and nothing is in it's correct position according to GPS.
Paul_D_North_Jr
And thus we have further proof of plate tectonics.
Norm48327 Paul_D_North_Jr Books have been written about survey points moving and related phenomena - so consider just briefly: Can't recall where I saw it, but recently read an article about Australia having to do some serious recalculation because the continent has moved and nothing is in it's correct position according to GPS.
Paul_D_North_Jr Books have been written about survey points moving and related phenomena - so consider just briefly:
I read an article about the same topic on BBC News website sometime last week. The whole continent is moving northward at about one meter per year.
CSSHEGEWISCHThe whole continent is moving northward at about one meter per year.
Might make for some interesting discussions about where you built that fence....
On the other hand, it points up the need for physical landmarks from which everything else can be measured. The entire continent may be moving, but I'm assuming that things on the continent aren't moving with relation to each other.
Could be interesting when it comes to lining up your auto GPS with the map overlay.
Simple explaination: Our NJ governor Christie is out of state so much that we don't need a state capital anymore. We sold it off.
pajrr Simple explaination: Our NJ governor Christie is out of state so much that we don't need a state capital anymore. We sold it off.
If a benchmark is moved by the action of an earthquake, is a new survey made to establish a new benchmark and the old one taken out?
Are meridians and bases re-established after an earthquake disturbs the surface?
https://archive.org/stream/newjerseyaguide00fedemiss#page/96/mode/2up
CARTER LAKE – The area we know as Carter Lake was once called Cut-Off Island – a fitting name for a place torn between two cities and two states, yet connected to neither.
Iowa and Nebraska constantly battled for the city bordered by the new oxbow lake after the Missouri River changed its course in 1877. But to the stranded community on the west side of the river, neither Council Bluffs nor Omaha wanted Carter Lake for anything more than its tax revenue.....
“It was really a no-man’s land: Dogfighting, cockfighting, boxing matches,” Roenfeld said. “Some unsavory things went on there.”
What began with one man’s idea of building a floating bar in the lake to flout laws of both states eventually grew into a border town rife with vice: From alcohol, especially after Iowa repealed Prohibition before its western neighbor, to gambling of all sorts...
http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/carter-lake-s-colorful-confusing-history/article_45d603ec-338f-5a45-9bb9-1843542ae556.html
Does Pennsylvania offer lower taxes and more lenient liquor laws?
Carter Lake, Iowa--you can't get there by land without going through Nebraska.
Point Roberts, Washington--you can't get therre by land without going through British Columbia. Imagine going through customs twice a day as you go to and from work. There was an item in the Saturday Evening Post many years ago, which told that school children crossed Canada twice a day to get to and from school.
Going between Victoria and Vancouver by ferry, you cross the United States. However, there is no worry about customs.
I understand the official location of the Washington Monument in DC was "corrected" a few years ago, with the advent of GPS.
DeggestyPoint Roberts, Washington--you can't get therre by land without going through British Columbia. Imagine going through customs twice a day as you go to and from work. There was an item in the Saturday Evening Post many years ago, which told that school children crossed Canada twice a day to get to and from school.
It isn't a problem, though, even with the additional security of the past few years. Everyone has a Nexus pass and simply rolls through the border checkpoint. There are plenty of people in the continental US here that work in Canada, and Canadians that work down here. Everyone just plans around the border like they plan around the weather.
Most maps put out by the major publishers have built in intentional (minor) mistakes on them. The mapmaker keeps track of them. Since a map is a map, they can tell who is using their map without permission. I read this decades ago and it makes sense.
Johny,
There's also Angle Inlet, MN. To get there you must drive through Manitoba.
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