by RussNelson
Does anybody have any information on the Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay routing north of Interlaken? It was never finished, just partially graded. They ran out of money, the workers laid down their tools one day, and that was that. I can see several hints of a railbed in various farmer's fields and at river crossings. But without outside information I'm just doing photo-interpretation. Chancy at best.
Help?
Here's my best guess, but north of Ovid Center I'm just parallelling a pipeline ... or is the pipeline parallelling the ROW? Or maybe the routing is west of the pipeline?
http://rutlandtrail.org?gmap.cgi?PnSB-H ... g.ny.track
I've found a couple of suspicious features beyond Interlaken. If you have Adobe's Flash installed on your computer (nearly everyone does), then you can view this URL: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.61860 ... =48&src=yh See the vertical (rotated from the northwest) line in the center at the cross-hairs? I believe that's a remnant.
Scrolling further to the Northeast, you get here: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.61860 ... =48&src=yh A prominent cut to the southeast of the center cross-hairs, and a shadow in the fields to the northwest.
Scrolling further to the Northeast, you get to Sheldrake Creek: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.64109 ... 9&src=aska There's nothing on the topo map to indicate that there are any remains, but there are some nice shadows on both the north and the south. There's *definitely something to the north.
All along this way, there's been a pipeline going in the same direction, roughly parallel but higher up the hill. Just west of Ovid Center, the pipeline seems to join in with the location of the ROW. Was the pipeline built on the ROW? I have the PnSB routed along the pipeline, but as I write this, I notice this: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.66617 ... 2&src=aska The pipeline is to the right and below the cross-hair, but look at this line to the left and above the cross-hair! Maybe ... just maybe this is a remnant! Further north is this: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.67857 ... 1&src=aska
Oh, speculation upon speculation!
Help?
Here's my best guess, but north of Ovid Center I'm just parallelling a pipeline ... or is the pipeline parallelling the ROW? Or maybe the routing is west of the pipeline?
http://rutlandtrail.org?gmap.cgi?PnSB-H ... g.ny.track
I've found a couple of suspicious features beyond Interlaken. If you have Adobe's Flash installed on your computer (nearly everyone does), then you can view this URL: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.61860 ... =48&src=yh See the vertical (rotated from the northwest) line in the center at the cross-hairs? I believe that's a remnant.
Scrolling further to the Northeast, you get here: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.61860 ... =48&src=yh A prominent cut to the southeast of the center cross-hairs, and a shadow in the fields to the northwest.
Scrolling further to the Northeast, you get to Sheldrake Creek: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.64109 ... 9&src=aska There's nothing on the topo map to indicate that there are any remains, but there are some nice shadows on both the north and the south. There's *definitely something to the north.
All along this way, there's been a pipeline going in the same direction, roughly parallel but higher up the hill. Just west of Ovid Center, the pipeline seems to join in with the location of the ROW. Was the pipeline built on the ROW? I have the PnSB routed along the pipeline, but as I write this, I notice this: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.66617 ... 2&src=aska The pipeline is to the right and below the cross-hair, but look at this line to the left and above the cross-hair! Maybe ... just maybe this is a remnant! Further north is this: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.67857 ... 1&src=aska
Oh, speculation upon speculation!