Aerial Photos !!

[Anonymous]

I suppose that some of you folk already know of this site, but for the benefit of those that don't, I'll post it here.
www.terraserver.com
This is real handy for tracking down old abandoned rail lines, as well as seeing what's still there. Last night I spent almost 3 hours exploring Chicago from the air. And I never set foot on a plane!
You might get a message that terraserver has moved, but if you wait a minute, it will take you there.
Happy exploring;
Todd C.

[edblysard]

Hi Todd,
Use it a lot, although I noted some of the photos are rather dated, like the one for Houston, its from 1995, but still a useful tool.
Stay Frosty,
The Unihead Ed

[Modelcar]

....Have been using it for several years...It is great..! Have looked at such places as Horseshoe and Muleshoe curves...[last one abandoned] in Pa. Tunnels through the Allegeney Mountains...Go up high enough and you can see both ends....Also same on the Pennsylvania Turnpike..Tunnels. As well as the old South Penn route..from which Pa. Turnpike in general followed....Several horse shoe curves on a coal branch [abandoned], in Somerset Co., Pa....near Boswell and Friedens Pa. As well as our winter quarters in Fl. for several years...Almost caught my car in the drive way down there one year...It is a fascinating tool for Railfans to have and use.

QM

[Anonymous]

I agree. I think that I might just go "visit" the old Milwaukee Road line through the mountains a bit later tonight.
Todd C.

[Modelcar]

....It is really neat the way one can follow the routes with this site...Even the abandoned ones. I followed the Western Maryland [abandoned in the 70's], from the Salisbury Viaduct through Meyersdale, Pa. and on over the Allegheny Mountain range to the sand Patch Tunnel and on down the other side to Cumberland....Once I got started it was hard to stop. One can really see the engineering it requires to do such building.

QM