Photo ID # f02.12.09_TRK_PLN_HAT_1914M_1
Car #: #NA
Driver (s) : NA
Location: Street Rd & York Rd - Warminster, PA
Date: 1914
Photographer: Unknown
Photo provided by: George Koyt (top image) Google Earth (bottom image)
Comments: Here's something that you may find interesting....  George Koyt sent over these plans that were created to create a 2 mile speedway in 1914 at what appears to be the intersection of Street Rd and York Rd.  Looks like it was going to be quite a facility with seating for approx 80,000 for the big track... a stadium inside the big track with seating for 40,000, a 1 mile horse racing track, horse stables, aviation pylons (for air races?), baseball, golf, tennis... and a train terminal, along with an "observation train"????

Did anyone else ever hear of plans to build a 2 mile oval located at the intersection of Street and York Road in Warminster, PA?  It would have been like an Indy of the East!

In order to match the plans as drawn, I had to spin the Google Image so that the top of the image is actually East, and North is to the left....  You can see the railroad traveling kind of diagonally from the upper left to the lower right to kind of get an idea of how everything lines up with the intersection.
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02.13.09 Rich Reinhart I drive through that intersection once at least once a day I never would have imagined something like that was planned for that area. Now its your usual urban sprawl of 7/11`s Jiffy Lubes, Burger Kings etc...
02.13.09 Tim Weber The track would have been north of County Line Road, which puts it in Warminster, Bucks county.  That section of Warminster is still known as the Speedway section!

The  aerial photo is correct, and Evergreen Ave. (which runs parallel to York Rd) is currently where the front straight would have been. Imagine the possibilities.

Nothing there today that would even hint of there ever being a track planned for it, but if you're as familiar with this area as I am, you could imagine it fitting quite nicely.
02.14.09 Paul The track construction was started then halted due to the war (WW1) but never finished, remnants of the track supposedly be found behind Warminster Auto Body off of Street road near Park road. I was informed that there rear lot is (was) made up of part of a 'tunnel turn" (concrete)?
02.15.09 Kevin Mc Indy was 2.5 miles and opened in 1909. The 500 started in 1911 but they ran quite a few races from 1909-1910
07.29.14 Ken Sorensen

I grew up in Speedway Section of Warminster on  North side of Elm Street. Across the street on the South side of elm Street going 1/2 a block to Evergreen Street and almost to Date Street there was a huge field that had a curved wall that stuck out of the ground about 18 inches. We used to Balance walk it all the time. It was pretty rural there during the late 50's.

My grandfather Lon James Campeau, told me about the speedway when I was a kid.

I had family in the speedway section. My Great Grandfather on my Moms side owned many lots of land to the West side of York Rd., and my Grandparents lived on Maple Street near Street Road and the Reading Railroad.

 I remember they dug up at least part of the wall when they built several houses along Elm Street about 1962 or 1963. Years later I bought that house from my folks and lived there again until I sold it and moved to Doylestown in early 70's.  Lots of good memories. 

Ken Sorensen 

Boynton Beach FL

07.29.14 3-Wide Ken - Thank you for that first hand information.  Very, very interesting.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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