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1860WRCAM6253Washington 1860. 501pp. Modern cloth leather label. Occasional foxing small tear to one leaf not affecting text repaired with tape. Very good. The main work is a request for "enlargement of the powers and privileges of said company as will enable them to extend their road to the Pacific at or near Mazatlan." hardcover books
18601469336th Cong. 1st Sess.: HMD85. 1860. 12pp Disbound Very Good. HMD85. unknown books
18661393039th Cong. 2d Sess. HED13. 1866. December 17 1866. 9pp Disbound Very Good. unknown books
1885403740Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1885. 8vo. 21 pp. Disbound. FIRST EDITION. <br/><br/> [Government Printing Office] unknown books
1949228251unspecified: Pennsylvania Railroad 1949. Pamphlet. Unpaginated about twenty pages; alkaline coated paperstock with b&w pix descriptions and technical stats for a number of specialized choo choos including six curious switching engines: electric diesel steam and combinations. Staplebound pamphlet in 5.5x8 inch oblong pictorial wraps cover bears an unobtrusive smudge and a couple numerals in red pencil else an unhandled-looking copy nice and sound. Pennsylvania Railroad unknown books
18607334Chicago: Cameron Amberg & Co. Printers; and Shober & Carqueville Lithographers 1860. Trade card 13 x 7.5 cm. printed both sides the verso in chromolithography depicting the interior of a dining car with tables set in anticipation of the passengers' meals. Text on the recto reads "These Dining and Restaurant Cars run on the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Omaha are in all respects the most luxurious traveling conveniences on the American continent. A bottle of fine French wine is served for an additional fifteen cents with an Extra Fine Meal for which only seventy-five cents is charged. Passengers will bear in mind that these are not the commonly-called Hotel Cars with their attendant high prices and bed-room odors. Our Dining Cars are used for no other purpose. All meals on Overland Trains are served in them. A. Smith Sup't Dining Car Line." The company became the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad in 1866 the company changed names frequently. In the mid-1870s the company established its Chicago-Omaha route. As such this card likely dates between the mid-1860s and mid-1870s. The railroad became known for introducing the first "elegant" dining cars to passenger trains and the lithograph on this trade card by Shober & Carqueville Lithographers of Chicago exudes elegance indeed. No tears folds or bends; slight glue residue on back. Cameron, Amberg & Co., Printers; [and] Shober & Carqueville Lithographers unknown books
284715Full Leather. Very Good binding. A copy of Volume I only of The Wabash Railroad Company and Wabash Railway Company Mortgages Equipment Agreements Agreements Matured or Retired. A highly detailed collection of complete legal financial agreements made between 1901 and 1915 between the Wabash Railroad and Railway Companies and the Continental Trust Company of New York Blair & Co. Bankers Trust Company the Equitable Trust Company of New York the Colonial Trust Company of Pittsburgh Central Trust Company of New York Bowling Green Trust Company J. C. van Blarcom James B. Forgan Lee Higginson & Co. City Trust Co. Industrial Trust Co. The First Trust and Savings Bank Old Colony Trust Company and the United States Mortgage and Trust Company. Notes on the agreements and how they were completed written in ink by a previous owner on some divisional title pages. Titling tabs attached by the binder on the fore edge of the divisional title pages; titling stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. Some wear to the binding; beginnings of separation to the bottom of the front joint. Black flexible leather with 'President' stamped in gilt beneath the titling on the front cover. Very Good binding. unknown books
19351252Denver: Williamson Haffner Company 1935. Giant post card 15 cm x 19.5 cm printed in color. Near fine. "Centuries before the dawn of human story the elements chiseled out the huge grooves at right angles to one another that forms the sacred cross. The snows fill the great gulches and lo! the cross appears as it is flashed upon a dark screen by an electrical appliance. Just after leaving Tennessee Pass the cross can be seen from the Denver & Rio Grande car windows." - from the back. Williamson Haffner Company unknown books
1910300407Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway ca. 1910. 1910. Folding 4 panel brochure 8 x 16. 7 b/w photographs. Printed in yellow and black. Very good-fine. Includes time tables fair schedules geographical information on Alpine Tavern San Bernardino Mountain Auto Line. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Los Angeles, Pacific Electric Railway [ca. 1910]. unknown books
1924300408Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway ca. 1924. 1924. Folding 12 panel brochure 8 x 16. 14 tinted photographs. Printed in tan orange and black. Very good-fine. Stamp of Peck-Judah Travel Agency on upper cover. Includes time tables points of interest; housing etc. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Los Angeles, Pacific Electric Railway [ca. 1924]. unknown books
1931300406Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway 1931. 1931. Folding 8 panel brochure 8" x 16". 12 sepia illustrations; map. Printed in tan cream and black. Very good-fine. Printed by California Rotogravure Company. Includes time tables points of interest; housing etc. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Los Angeles, Pacific Electric Railway [1931]. unknown books
18851099Chicago: Geo. F. Cram 1885. Good plus. Large folding pamphlet approximately 20 x 41.5 inches. A few small chips and short closed tears at edges; several short separations and very minor losses along folds. Contemporary agent's ink stamp on cover panel. Tape repair across portion of horizontal fold; one panel with patches of light staining. A scarce colorful promotional for the Rock Island Route as well as its national and international connections with a fascinating stamp of an Australian sales agent. One side of the sheet prints an extensive promotional text and timetables for the various routes and services of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway. The main side of the sheet prints a map of the United States with state borders shaded in four colors highlighting the principal routes of the Rock Island from Chicago to Minnesota Iowa and Kansas and its connections to points on both the East and West Coasts. An inset map at lower right promotes the Rock Island as part of a transcontinental route between the United Kingdom Ireland and Australia. Most interestingly this copy is stamped on the cover panel with the information of a George. H. Hibbard "Australian Passenger Agent America's Cons'd Trans-continental Railways 6 Bridge Street Sydney N.S.W." Hibbard was evidently the agent in charge of distributing information about the trans-America route in Sydney one of its end points. Several issues of this map were published during the 1880s all scarce. We locate copies of the present 1885 issue at Stanford SMU and the Library of Congress. Geo. F. Cram unknown books
192314417New York City: New York Central Railroad Company 1923. 62 pages; with the forms necessary for claims damage and adjustment; title continued ".for claims. Extracts from consolidated freight classification rules and rules of the freight claim division of the American Railway Association. Issued by Freight Claim Agent New York City Circular No. C-20 Effective November 1 1923 Superseding Circular C-16 of March 1st 1921 and other conflicting instructions."; gray-brown paper wrap covers; 6" x 9" approximate size;; some edge tips wear soiling to wraps; contents in good condition. Soft Cover. Good. New York Central Railroad Company Paperback books
194441488New York 1944. Ca. 1910 - 1944. Contemporary flexible embossed black calf post binder gilt "Photographs" lettered to front cover along with title of "New York State" in white ink to front cover nickel-plate posts at gutter margin. Minor edgewear with some rubbing and chipping to both album and leaves. Some lifting to the photos many of the leaves have wear to fore-edges. 1 of the nickel posts has snapped due to the weight of the textblock a few leaves detached. Withal a G/VG remarkable album. Unpaginated though 346 pp. 1111 real photographs tipped-in to thick black paper mounted with corners. Two colored postcards 2 maps 1 large folding brochure for the Jamestown Westfield & Northwestern Railway many with photographers notes stamped in ink many in pencil including some copy photos from magazines newspapers and trade magazines ranging in size from 2-1/4" x 3-1/4" all the way up to 9" x 11" including many panoramic photos and even some real photo postcards. Thick oblong format: "10-1/4" x 13-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/>A massive photo album brimming with over 1100 images of street cars trolleys motor cars locomotives service trains interurban railway lines and railroads across New York from the 1890s up to WWII. With neatly handwritten captions photographer's notes often on verso and even some typed text. The compiler has traced the development of the New York transit system before WWII including many short lines and trolley lines that have become defunct and most absorbed into the modern New York railway system. This tremendous photograph album supplies one of the most lavishly illustrated visual archives of New York Interurban Railways Street Cars Trolleys and the development of mass transit in the Northeastern United States before WWII we have ever seen. Included within the album are images of over 60 different Interurban lines Trolley Lines and Short Line railways including the Albany Southern RR Albany & Hudson Railway Batavia Traction Co. operated 1914-1927 Bennington & Hoosik Valley Railway Co. 1989-1927 the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad which was the first railroad of any kind to reach Coney Island and after 1923 became part of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation along with the Brooklyn & Manhattan Transit Brooklyn & Queens Traction Co. and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. In addition there are substantial sections devoted to the Empire State Railroad the Fonda Johnstown & Gloversville RR - significant for showing the ultra modern art deco Bullet interurban cars acquired in 1932 to boost ridership; the Schenectady Railway Company which connected Schenectady -Albany -Troy -Saratoga and was one of the most extensive trolley lines in the Northeastern US; as well as the New York Elevated Railroad the New York Railways Co. which operated trolleys and streetcars from 1911 until 1925 when their lines were replaced with buses the Rochester & eastern Rapid Railway which operated from 1901 until 1930 when the line was dismantled; the Steinway Lines Co. which began as the Steinway Railway Company and would become part of the New York & Queens County Railway until 1932 when it broke free and operated as a trolley line until 1939 when they were replaced with buses. This album is filled with trolleys electric trolleys electric motor cars and electric locomotives which were built by numerous different companies including J. M. Jones & Sons Interurban Car Builders Wason Manufacturing Co. Jackson-Sharp Manufacturing Baldwin-Westinghouse Sheffield Car Co. and many others. The photographers stamps on the versos of some images include Howard Humes of Balston Spa NY Fred Abele of Albany NY Charles A. Brown of Chicago IL and many others. The photos provide a vivid picture of New York in the first part of the 20th century depicting the advertising signage the architecture fashions civic movements the impact of Pearl Harbor with trolleys outfitted to look like Navy Recruiting posts and much more. Of particular interest are many of the images showing abandoned trolleys and motor cars in wrecking yards sideyards others showing accident damage from being hit by trucks some being sold at auction and others being burned for scrap as much of the Interurban system was being scrapped for buses at the outbreak of World War II. unknown books
1916562St. Paul 1916. 64pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. A scarce North Dakota promotional published by the Northern Pacific Railway focused on the agriculture of the state. The extensive text consists consists of detailed county-by-county descriptions of farming opportunities in North Dakota accompanied by numerous photographic images as well as the obligatory information on passenger travel and freight service available through Northern Pacific to these areas. A color map of the state with existing and proposed Northern Pacific lines is printed on the inside front wrapper. We locate three copies at Yale BYU and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. unknown books
199240419Marysville CA: Northern Electric Railway 1992. Reprint. Orange and black ink printed on white paper. Minimal wear. A Near Fine copy. 10 pp. Map of California to rear wrapper charts throughout. Oblong format: 10-3/4" x 16-1/4" <br/><br/> Northern Electric Railway unknown books
1881WRCAM176431881. 46pp. Printed wrappers a near fine specimen. Copy of the general first mortgage for the Northern Pacific Railroad for the purpose of constructing a railroad and telegraph line between Lake Superior and Puget Sound. unknown books
1884WRCAM8167Washington 1884. 34pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped else very good. Reprints the original charter the grant of land by Congress with amendments followed by consent of the states of Minnesota Wisconsin and Oregon. unknown books
1867WRCAM15950Hartford 1867. 11pp. Self-wrappers. Binding residue along spine edge lightly chipped else very good. This memorial was directed at the Senate and the House of Representatives requesting government aid for continuing construction. This copy is signed by Thomas Canfield one of the directors of the line. unknown books
1868WRCAM33573AWashington: Government Printing Office 1868. 39pp. plus large color folding map 23 1/4 x 44 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers. Presentation inscription on front wrapper see below. Wrapper edges chipped minor soiling and tanning to wrappers spine partially chipped old vertical fold to pamphlet. Light foxing and tanning and occasional soiling throughout Map with a few small closed tears at cross-folds with no loss. About very good. This copy is inscribed on the front wrapper: "With Regards of James Tilton C.E." Tilton 1819-78 was then chief engineer of the Washington Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Thanks in part to his support for Franklin Pierce's presidential campaign Tilton was appointed the first Surveyor General of Washington Territory and served from 1853-61. Both the Tilton River and Fort Tilton near Fall City Washington are named for him. <br> <br> An important report to Congress by the Northern Pacific Railroad headed by Minnesota railroad magnate James J. Hill for federal aid to support the Railroad's expansion to the West Coast. The petition reviews the railroad's original charter printing with it a memorial from the NPRR's Board of Directors and supporting communications from military figures including Montgomery Meigs and Ulysses S. Grant. Since the early 1850s Edwin Johnson described by Wheat as a "visionary" engineer had been associated with the plan to build a railroad across the northern part of the United States from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast. In 1867 he was named chief engineer of the Northern Pacific and this memorial is a work of major importance for the history of the railroad. It includes Johnson's topographical survey of the route to the Pacific a discussion of potential problems that may be encountered and a detailed economic and military survey of the area in justification of construction. <br> <br> The exceptional large folding "Map of the Country from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean from the Latest Explorations and Surveys" was produced by the Colton firm in New York. One of the finest maps of the region to date it shows the area from Detroit to the Pacific well into Canada and south to about the 39th parallel. Johnson has drawn the route of the Northern Pacific from Lake Superior to Washington Territory where the line splits with one branch heading toward Fort Vancouver and the other to Puget Sound. Among the details shown on the map are the Pony Express route wagon routes and overland mail routes exploration routes and other proposed railroad routes the locations of Indian tribes mineral deposits military forts and much more. Wheat gives a long description of the map and remarks that "the detail of such a map defies cataloging." Construction on the Northern Pacific Railroad began in 1870 and was completed in 1883. Edwin Johnson did not see its completion dying in 1872. An edition of this report with the supporting documents and map was also privately published in Hartford. <br> <br> A significant early account of railroad expansion in the Northwest. We could find only ten copies listed in OCLC and this is the first copy we have seen in wrappers and with a presentation from an important engineer on the project. RAILWAY ECONOMICS pp.242-43. SABIN 55819 Hartford edition. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST V item 1169 pp.205-09. PHILLIPS MAPS p.916. DECKER 37:266 Hartford ed. MIDLAND NOTES 68:164. OCLC 60578657. Government Printing Office unknown books
1870WRCAM28967Philadelphia 1870. 2-294pp. Self-wrappers stitched. Front wrapper detached slight toning. Very good. The articles of incorporation of the famed northwest railroad that would later help build the fortune of railroad magnate James J. Hill. Built too quickly the Northern Pacific traversed poor land and ran on ill- constructed rails. By 1896 the success of James J. Hill's Great Northern allowed Hill and his associated to buy the Northern Pacific and merge it with the Great Northern. Throughout the remaining industrial revolution and into the early 20th century the Great Northern was the main transporter of lumber coal and taconite loads from their sources to St. Paul and Minneapolis where they would continue east or be shipped by barge down the Mississippi. unknown books
1885WRCAM54057St. Paul Mn 1885. 64pp. with in-text illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers extracted from larger volume. Very good. An attractive 1885 promotional publication by the Northern Pacific Railroad providing detailed descriptions and numerous illustrations of attractions to be taken advantage of along their routes from Minneapolis and Saint Paul to Seattle and thence to Alaska. Includes a map illustrations and descriptions of Yellowstone. unknown books
190529043Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotive Works 1905. 1st edition thus. Pale green decorative wrappers stapled. General wear soiling & grubiness from thumbing. Old tape repair to bottom 2" of spine & t.p. gutter. Old tape repair to edge of p. 23/24 & 25/26. A Good copy only. 42 2 pp. 29 images with 7 locomotive images with specs of engines built for divers railroad companies such as Erie Railroad Co; Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company; and New York New Haven & Hartford. Oblong 8vo. 6" x 9" <br/><br/> Baldwin Locomotive Works unknown books
186744783Boston: n.a. 1867. First edition. A very good copy some toning at the center crease minor wear to edge. 1 sheet. 1 p. 19 x 24 inches 48.5 x 61 cm. Broadside printed on yellow paper advertizing a combined railroad and steamer trip from Boston to Rocky Point RI. The train would travel to Falls River where it connected with the Steamer Canonicus which then traveled to Rocky Point. Lists stops and fares. Notes that "A Band of Music will accompany the Excursion." Signed and dated in type "Boston August 15 1867. W.H. Bullock William Henry Sup't." OCLC locates no copies of this broadside but shows the American Antiquarian Society holding a similar item issued a year later American Broadsides and Ephemera. Series 1; no. 14733. n.a. unknown books
1876022682Chicago IL: RAND McNally & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1876. Railroad Timetable. Railroad timetable unfolds into a 23 1/2 x 35 inch map of two-thirds of the United States. Light soiling and chipping to edges slight separation at one or two folds. Contains a very pleasing hand-colored map showing the myriad of short line railroads throughout the eastern two-thirds of the United States. Includes timetables for the Chicago Alton & St. Louis RR the Chicago Kansas City & Denver RR various Texas Short Lines and the Chicago Memphis mobile & New Orleans line. Aslo has striking vignettes of Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and the Reclining Chairs in said cars the Great Steel Bridge and Great Iron Bridge across the Mississippi River in two locales. This particular timetable not found in OCLC as of April 2021. A wonderful example of an ephemeral railroad artifact. . RAND, McNally & Co. unknown books
