What This Source Covers

Railroad linework with system, user, and feature code fields from the county rail source.

This source adds rail corridor context that is often missing from the base map at municipal scale.

Why Someone Would Open This Page

This source appears on 193 of the 219 mapped place pages in the Allegheny County section, including 116 borough and township pages and 77 Pittsburgh neighborhood pages. That gives a quick sense of how broadly the layer is used across the county.

The example below is here to make the source concrete. Instead of talking about the layer in the abstract, the page shows what it actually looks like on the map.

Example Map

This page uses 018 – Railroad Lines in East Allegheny as the example area. Dense sources use a full selected place; lighter sources use the full sample area.

Live Example Map

Railroad Lines

East Allegheny / Infrastructure / line sample

Full neighborhood railroad-line sample.

Rendered118 ModeFull place Geometryline

Quick Facts

Fact Current value
Rows in the source 10,819
Main data fields 6
Total fields 8
Source system PASDA AlleghenyCounty MapServer layer 6
Map geometry PASDA layer 6
Mapped place pages using this source 193 / 219 (88.1%)
Example area used here East Allegheny
Features drawn in this example 118

Where You Will See It

Place type Coverage
All mapped place pages in the county section 219
Pages using this source 193 (88.1%)
Borough and township pages 116 / 129
Pittsburgh neighborhood pages 77 / 90
Pages where the source is hidden 26

For Technical Readers

Field List

The table below lists the current columns in [WPRDC PASDA].[018 - RRLines].

# Field SQL type Nullable Role
1 OBJECTID nvarchar(4000) Yes Attribute
2 SYSTEMID nvarchar(4000) Yes Attribute
3 USERID nvarchar(4000) Yes Attribute
4 FEATURECOD nvarchar(4000) Yes Attribute
5 UPDATE_YEA nvarchar(4000) Yes Attribute
6 SHAPE_Length nvarchar(4000) Yes Attribute
7 geometry_type nvarchar(200) Yes Geometry storage
8 geometry_json nvarchar(max) Yes Geometry storage