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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Fossil Wyoming
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Here's a screen grab of Google Earth's Street View of the depot.

It is above the F on your topo. It is 350 feet north of US 30 as the crow
flies, 390 feet as the crow walks the little access road.

Henry

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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Harry Marnell wrote:

> Thanks for the verification, Mark. Nothing better than someone who's been on
> the ground there. That being the case, I found and cropped a 1978 (revised
> 1985) USGS topo map which shows the area around Fossil, and uploaded it to
> http://harrymarnell.net/Fossil_WY_topo.pdf
>
> If you zoom in a bit, would your guess be that the depot is the building
> along the marked "Old R.R. Grade" and just above the letter "F" in Fossil?
> If so, looks to be less that ¼ mile north of US 30 along a dirt road.
>
> Harry
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mapping_Rails/


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