Hi there Bart,

It's very interesting isn't it, following the old rail lines from the air--I like tipping the angle down to where you're skimming along above the grade - very cool - I first found the power of google earth in investigating for any remains of an old interurban rail line which had once existed around the turn of the century in my old home town of Cleveland Hts Ohio and the eastern lands of North East Ohio; I had always heard that the old train tracks(which you could see here and there) were part of an old line which stretched for miles out into the country...I was amazed at how much of the line could be traced across the landscape even after 80 or more years since the trains had run...it led me to finding a website dedicated to the old train line.. http://www.trainweb.org/ceihsm/construction.html

anyway--thanks for your interesting blog...it's kind of like finding old Roman remains around...ancient concrete bits and pieces...

Frank