Two Pennsylvania Decommissioned Routes

I originally wanted to do a daytrip today, but decided to do some much needed web work. Obviously, part of it was starting the Carolina Crossroads project.

One small update I did was with the help of Adam Moss. Adam is relatively new to the hobby, and a lot of his work has been done on Wikipedia. He's from New Jersey, but lives close enough to Northeastern PA to be a great asset there. And that's what he did. Since I am so behind on updates, I suggested that he create pages for the PA Decommissioned Routes pages. So Adam put together pages for PA 945 and PA 962.

Meanwhile, I am starting on West Virginia updates. hopefully, i'll get to Pennsylvania by the end of the year.

Thanks again to Adam for putting together the pages, and also Jeff Kitsko for the map scans.

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