http://www.flashearth.com/
Very useful for following prototype lines!
TrainManTy wrote: http://www.flashearth.com/Very useful for following prototype lines!
Yep. A handful of other useful web resources for prototype research, in no particular order:
1) Library of congress collectionsEspecially useful: HABS-HAER (Historic American Buildings/Engineering Survey)http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
2) Minnesota Historical Society Visual Records databasehttp://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/search.cfm?bhcp=1
3) Chicago and Northwestern Historical societyhttp://www.cnwhs.org/index.htm
4) Great Northern Empirehttp://www.greatnorthernempire.net/index.htm
5) General code of operating rules http://www.cwrr.com/Lounge/Reference/rules/title.html
6) Brooklyn's waterfront railroadshttp://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Southbklyn/waterfront.html
7) The diesel shop (lists of diesel engines - numbers, purchase dates, roads etc)http://www.thedieselshop.us/
8) Billboards of the pasthttp://www.billboardsofthepast.com/
9) Historic road signs:http://signalfan.freeservers.com/signs.html
There is a lot of interesting prototype info out there. Good luck with your googling.
Grin, Stein