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Jim McKee

January 21, 2020 07:42PM

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Some years ago, I visited the National Archives in the Washington DC area, where the original ICC railroad maps from the WWI era are kept. I requested to look at the map for the Wiscasset yard. I was shocked and disappointed when the map was brought out and it turned out to be a rather poor hand drawing that looked like the handy work of a third grader, with no measurement markings that were normal for every ICC track diagram I have ever seen before or since. Apparently, companies down on their luck could get an exemption when it came to cost of having actual survey maps made.

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Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	Stewart Rhine	January 20, 2020 06:19AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	Tom Peterman	January 20, 2020 06:34AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	edsshay	January 20, 2020 06:35AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	John Meixel	January 20, 2020 06:56AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	Stewart Rhine	January 20, 2020 07:05AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	guymonmd	January 20, 2020 07:47AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	george pearce	January 20, 2020 08:47AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	Stewart Rhine	January 20, 2020 10:01AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	tgbcvr	January 20, 2020 10:38AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	KevinM	January 20, 2020 11:28AM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	Stewart Rhine	January 20, 2020 12:48PM
Re: Maine Two-Foot Grand Reunion, Day 3	Jim McKee	January 21, 2020 07:42PM
Re: Maine Two-Foot, ICC 1917 field survey	Stewart Rhine	January 28, 2020 07:49AM

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