Rail Road Maps

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markn

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Posted by markn on Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:58 PM

Is there a specific railroad you are interseted in? If so you might try that RR's historical society-most have websites.

underworld

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Posted by underworld on Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:52 PM

You can also do a net search for "railroad map" and "1904".

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J. Edgar

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Posted by J. Edgar on Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:12 PM

nanaimo73 wrote:

It is here-
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html

yes there it is......thx

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nanaimo73

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Friday, January 12, 2007 1:34 AM

It is here-

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html

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J. Edgar

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Posted by J. Edgar on Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:19 PM

the Library of Congress website has some excellent period railroad maps ................ i can find the link............I think...maybe......

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:32 PM

Not quite sure just what you're asking for. The Official Guides printed what the companies provided which more often than not included a route map of their railroad. Important connecting lines were shown but their competitors were invisible.

Before 1900, the front of the Guide would have a map of the USA showing all of the railroads but was sectionalized over a dozen or more pages in a scale that was not too useful.

I have seen old wall maps put out by the publishing firms but have never seen advertisements for maps for specific years. I was given an old wall map but it's in such bad shape I've never hung it.

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