Rusty Driver
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Re: Can you read a map?
cornbinder89 wrote:I enjoy looking at old maps, It can tell you alot about the area back then. Montana has all their old maps online Back to when it was a territory. Iowa has their old railroad map online, you can see how the state grew because of the railroads. At the turn of the last century, there was a rail line running right by my house, nothing remains to let you know it was ever there.
My Grandfather had a place in northern Maine, it was sparsely populated in the 60's but had a blooming population in the 1880's according to an old map he had, roads that were there back in the 1880's are completely gone by the 1970's.
All stuff that can't be gleaned from GPS.
CB, could you post a link to the old Iowa RR maps? We are riding the Boone and Scenic Valley RR in our rail speeder with the First Iowa Division this weekend. It's a great ride with a trip over the Des Moines river on a 154' high trestle.
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