Journal of the Proceedings of the General Railroad Convention Held at Springfield August 24th and 25th 1852
185240966New Haven: T.J. Stafford Printer 1852. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy chips to last three leaves of which two are blanks without loss of text. 24 pp. Sm. 8vo. To avoid ruinous rate wars railroads began to collude in earnest in the 1850s the first recorded meeting being that of the New England railroad companies in the winter of 1850-1851 followed then by this general railroad convention at Springfield Mass. called for by the principals of the New York and New Haven railroad to consider uniform train rules exchange of reports timetables and abuses in the issuance of free passes. The Ohio Railroad Convention thereafter met annually in the fifties. OCLC shows only eight locations: Lib. of Congress Amer. Antiquarian Soc. Harvard 2 Univ. Missouri Linda Hall Lib. Dartmouth and Univ. Denver. T.J. Stafford, Printer unknown
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