Flying the Santa Fe Trail Story: long

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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A few weeks ago, someone in rec.aviation.piloting??, asked about
flying the Oregon trail.

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Wow -- COOL flight, Joe.

It had not occurred to me that a modern-day pilot could go off in search
of
the old wagon trails -- at least not in such detail, and in so complete a
manner. I figured after 150 years the tracks would be completely
obliterated by weather and man.

Fly on up near Glendo State Park in Wyoming and see Register Cliffs. The
rocks have names carved from people on the Oregon Trail and the wagon ruts
are still VERY visible 150 years later.

Tom

It's also fun to retrace ghost railroads. You can follow not only surviving
roadbed that may have been converted to other uses, such as bike paths, but
also roadbed that has been obliterated for agricultural use but still is
visible from the air because the crops that grow on top of it are either
darker or lighter than the surrounding vegetation. In Indiana you can follow
the ghost of the old Erie Railroad, which in 1911 was Cal Rodgers' route
from New York to Chicago on his transcontinental flight.

Henry

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:z3Ubc.179388$_w.1827094@attbi_s53...
A few weeks ago, someone in rec.aviation.piloting??, asked about
flying the Oregon trail.

It's also fun to retrace ghost railroads.

Yes, we've seen them all over Iowa. You'll see a "track" that stops and
starts at different farms, perhaps for dozens of miles. I suppose it all
comes down to how ambitious the farmer was, and whether it was worth his
while to obliterate the rail bed.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article , Henry Kisor
wrote:

It's also fun to retrace ghost railroads. You can follow not only surviving
roadbed that may have been converted to other uses, such as bike paths, but
also roadbed that has been obliterated for agricultural use but still is
visible from the air because the crops that grow on top of it are either
darker or lighter than the surrounding vegetation. In Indiana you can follow
the ghost of the old Erie Railroad, which in 1911 was Cal Rodgers' route
from New York to Chicago on his transcontinental flight.

I followed that one from Huntington IN to Joliet IL in 1986 when I flew
my Champ to OSH!