Railroads

Results 1 - 25 (of 63)

Page 1 of 3

American Express

GROUP OF FOUR (4) DEATH NOTICES FOR MEMBERS OF THE EXPRESSMEN'S AID SOCIETY:; Each giving the name of the deceased, his position with American Express Company, cause of death, family, &c.

Cincinnati: Office of the Secretary, E.A.S., 1882-1888. Original documents. Small broadsides, 8.5" x 5.5", text ruled in black, docketed on versos. Memorials to: (1) Chas. E. Goodrich; died at Milwaukee, June 14, 1882 of consumption; joined American Express as scrip-clerk soon after the close of the War, rose to position..... More

Price: $75.00

American Iron and Steel Association

A COLLECTION OF FRESH FACTS, CONCERNING THE EFFECTS OF THE PROTECTIVE POLICY ON THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION, THE PRICES OF STEEL RAILS, WOOLEN AND COTTON GOODS, SALT, AND OTHER ARTICLES, THE WAGES OF LABOR, ETC., ETC. Tariff Tract No. 2, 1882 [cover title].

Philadelphia: American Iron and Steel Ass'n, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 28pp. Contents: The cost of transportation of western farm products; The price of steel rails; The tariff on wool and woolens; The tariff on cotton goods; The dairymen and the tariff; A tariff reminiscence; The duty on cotton ties; Wages..... More

Price: $35.00

Atlantic City Railroad

TWO (2) FREE PASSES ISSUED TO A TRANSITMAN FOR THE READING RAILROAD, BY THE ATLANTIC CITY RAILROAD COMPANY IN 1928

Atlantic City, NJ: AC RR Co., 1928. Original editions. Two printed passes, accomplished by typewriter. Issued to Kennard W. Gregory, a Reading Company transitman, residing in Philadelphia. Both issued December 16, 1928. The first, #AF85265 is for passage from Atlantic City to Philadelphia. The second, #AF85269 covers a trip from..... More

Price: $50.00

Boston & Albany Railroad

BOSTON & ALBANY RAILROAD, BOSTON & WORCESTER DIVISION. NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES. EXTRA TRAINS TO HARMONY GROVE, SOUTH FRAMINGHAM....; No. 201 On Wednesday, Aug. 10th, a Passenger train will go to Main St. Crossing on Grand Junction R.R. It will leave Boston at 7.45 A.M., Cottage Farm Junction 8.00, Main St. 8.30....This train must not obstruct Main St. while taking and leaving its passengers....These trains will avoid all regular passenger trains, but Freight trains...Gravel trains and all other extras must keep out of their way. Boston, August 8, 1870. A. Firth, Ass't Sup't.

Boston: Boston & Albany RR, 1870. First Edition. Broadside, 7-3/8" x 6-7/8" [Not recorded by WorldCat.]. More

Price: $50.00

Boston & Albany Railroad

BOSTON & ALBANY RAILROAD, BOSTON & WORCESTER DIVISION. NOTICE.; No. 201. On Wednesday, November 17th, and on every succeeding Wednesday...excepting in severe snow storms, the 7 P.M. Passenger Train from Boston will run through Milford....Returning, will leave Milford at 8.55 P.M....and reach So. Framingham at 9.30 P.M. Boston, November 15, 1875. W.H. Barnes, Ass't Sup't.

Boston: Boston & Albany RR, 1870. First Edition. Broadside, 6.75" x 7.5" [Not recorded by WorldCat.]. More

Price: $50.00

Bureau of Railway Economics

A LIST OF REFERENCES TO LITERATURE RELATING TO THE UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM. August 15, 1922.

Newton, MA: Crofton Publ Co, nd. Reprint. Hardcover. pp: (viii), 299 with appendices and index, 23 legal case references. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. 11.25" x 8.5" This Bibliography of the Union Pacific System comprises two parts: I-Union Pacific Railroad; II-Oregon Short LIne Railroad... More

Price: $25.00

California / Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway

CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA HOTEL RATES ARE REASONABLE.

San Francisco: AT&SF Railway, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. 28pp; 38 views from photographs. Contains hotel rates in many different cities. Typically, $1.50 in Bakersfield ($2.00 with bath), and $8.00 in Beverly Hills ($6.00 with bath). Includes views of various hotels. Bound in pictorial self-wrappers, 8" x 4". Laid in is..... More

Price: $75.00

Central Vermont Railroad

TWO LETTERS SIGNED (TLS)...LOCAL FREIGHT DEPT & SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE...ST. ALBANS, VT., 5 DEC 1879 & 10 JULY 1882...

St. Albans, Vermont: 1882. Original manuscript. Two letters, each one page on CVR letterhead. The letter signed by E.A. Chittenden, Superintendent of Local Freight Traffic, is re tariff and a shipment of sleds. The letter from the General Superintendent tells one H.R. Barney, Agent at Chester, Vermont, to increase his..... More

Price: $25.00

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company

STATEMENT OF THE EXISTING CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE TWO LINES OF RAILROADS FROM CINCINNATI TO LAKE ERIE.; (Submitted by S.S. L'Hommedieu, President.)

Cincinnati: Cincinnati Gazette Company Print, 1854. First Edition. Softcover. 16pp. Bound in printed tan wrappers. Covers lightly dusted; two spine holes for binding. 9" x 6" More

Price: $50.00

Cobb, Charles, compiler

AMERICAN RAILWAY GUIDE, AND POCKET COMPANION, FOR THE UNITED STATES; Containing Correct Tables, for time of starting from all stations, distances, fares, etc. on all the Railway Lines in the United States; together with a Complete Railway Map. Also many principal Steamboat and Stage Llines running in connection with railroads.; New York: Curran Dinsmore & Co., 1851.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1945. FACSIMILE of first edition. Softcover. 160pp with adverts; black-and-white folding map at rear, opens to 13.5" x 16.5". Bound in printed gray wrappers, 5.25" x 3.75" More

Price: $35.00

Cochrane, John

RAILWAY PATENT CLAIM REPORTER. Published for the Use of Subscribers to the Railway Protective Agency, for the Examination of Patents. Vol. I, No. 5, October, 1860.

New York: Published by the author, 1860. First Edition. Original Wrappers. (32)pp; 11 illustrations, birdseye view on back cover showing the Newark Terminal of the New York, Harlaem [sic] & Albany Railroad. Bound in printed tan wrappers; dampmark to cover and first several leaves. 9" x 5.75" Contents: Our Agency..... More

Price: $60.00

Colorado / Chamberlain, William Gunnison

STEREOSCOPIC VIEW OF CLEAR CREEK CANYON: Colorado Mountain Scenery.

Denver: W.G. Chamberlain, circa 1875. Original photograph. Two sepiatone images (3.5" x 3..25"), mounted side by side on green card stock, 4" x 7". Dampmark on verso. Printed slip on verso: "Clear Creek Canyon. This canyon is traversed by the Colorado Central Rail Road with an ascent of 106 to..... More

Price: $35.00

Colorado / Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED AND QUIT-CLAIM DEED FOR A RAILROAD RIGHT-OF- WAY IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, 1895

1895. Original manuscript. Two items, quarto and folio. (1) ALS on letterhead of The Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Co., datelined Victor, Colo.,, May 20th, 1895, enclosing a "quit claim deed for a right of way over and across the 'Granite' Lode Mining Claim #7861 Gov. Survey. Mr. V.H. Cour..... More

Price: $50.00

Colorado / Gurnsey, Byron H.

STEREOSCOPIC VIEW OF "LITTLE CHIEF" IRON SPRING, ONE MILE FROM MANITOU HOUSE, MANITOU, COLORADO. Scenes on the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway.

Colorado Springs: Gurnsey, circa 1880. Original photograph. Two sepiatone images (3.5" x 3..25"), mounted side by side on yellow card stock, 4" x 7" "Exterior view looking northeast of the original 'Summer House' at Ute Iron Springs in Manitou Springs, Colorado; a shingle roofed pavilion (1880) with latticed balustrade and..... More

Price: $45.00

Colorado / Gurnsey, Byron H.

STEREOSCOPIC VIEW, GLEN EYRIE--FROM THE NORTH. Showing Echo Rock, Garden of the Gods, and Cheyenne Mountain. Scenes on the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway.

Colorado Springs: Gurnsey, circa 1872. Original photograph. Two sepiatone images (3.5" x 3..25"), mounted side by side on yellow card stock, 4" x 7" Glen Eyrie Castle, built by Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer, is seen on the mountaintop overlooking the rugged landscape and Arkansas River in the foreground..... More

Price: $45.00

Colorado / Gurnsey, Byron H.

STEREOSCOPIC VIEW, SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK--THE CRATER. Scenes on the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway.

Colorado Springs: Gurnsey, circa 1872. Original photograph. Two sepiatone images (3.5" x 3..25"), mounted side by side on yellow card stock, 4" x 7" At the right is a man seated on a rock, overlooking the canyon below. [OCLC finds only a similar (snow-covered) view, held by Pike's Paak Library..... More

Price: $50.00

Colorado / Gurnsey, Byron H.

STEREOSCOPIC VIEW, THE UTE PASS: One Mile from Manitou House, Manitou, Colorado. Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views...Scenes on the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway.

Colorado Springs: Gurnsey, circa 1872. Original photograph. Two sepiatone images (3.5" x 3..25"), mounted side by side on yellow card stock, 4" x 7" More

Price: $35.00

Colorado / Gurnsey, Byron H.

STEREOSCOPIC VIEW, PIKE'S PEAK, 14,336 FEET HIGH: Looking through Templeton's Gap, 16 Miles, Air Line, to Summit. Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views...Scenes on the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway.

Colorado Springs: Gurnsey, circa 1872. Original photograph. Two sepiatone images (3.5" x 3..25"), mounted side by side on yellow card stock; old dampmark in sky portion of image. 4" x 7" Mountain lion seen on rock in foreground. More

Price: $30.00

Connecticut

SPECIAL WEEK DAY CONNECTICUT TOURS ... 200 MILE LAND-WATER CRUISE - TRAIN TO PORT JEFFERSON, L.I. - CRUISE ACROSS LONG ISLAND SOUND....

Jamaica, NY: Long Island Rail Road, 1969. First Edition. Broadside, printed in green on yellow stock. Describes the trip aboard the ferry boat "Martha's Vineyard"; bus tour including Branford Trolley Museum, Yale University, Booth Memorial Park; dinner at Elk's Restaurant, Port Jefferson; train schedule; small photo of ferry boat; etc...... More

Price: $35.00

Davis, T.E.

FROM NEW JERSEY TO CALIFORNIA, '97: A History of the Journey of the New Jersey C.E. Special to the Sixteenth International C.E. Convention, at San Francisco, July 6-12, 1897.; Compiled by the New Jersey Transportation Manager, Rev. T.E. Davis, of Bound Brook, N.J.

Somerville, N.J. C.H. Bateman, 1897. First Edition. Original Cloth. 150pp; frontispiece with six portraits. Bound in green cloth, gilt lettering and monogram on cover, patterned endpapers; lower tip of cover discolored. 7.75" x 5.75" Includes chapters on: Sleeping Cars (detailing the 14 occupied by this group); San Francisco; Monterey and..... More

Price: $45.00

Delaware / Wilmington and Western Railroad

WILMINGTON & WESTERN R.R., DELAWARE'S OLD-TIME STEAM LINE... NINE-MILE ROUND TRIP...HISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY...1966...

Yorklyn, Delaware: Historic Red Clay Valley, 1966. Original edition. Broadside, printed in black ink on green paper; illus from old engraving. 14" x 5.5" The line operated hourly on weekends, May 28 to October 30, 1966, boarding at Greenbank Station, five miles west of Wilmington, also the site of Greenbank..... More

Price: $15.00

Flandrau, Grace

THE STORY OF MARIAS PASS

Great Northern Railway, (1925). First Edition. Softcover. pp: 22, (1); portrait of John F. Stevens, explorer of Marias Pass; six other illustrations, route map on final leaf. Printed stiff wrappers. 9" x 6" Marias Pass cuts through the Rocky Mountains on the southern boundary of Glacier National Park. The Great..... More

Price: $15.00

France

ATLAS P.L.M. - VALLEY OF THE RHONE:; Lyons, Vienne, Orange, Avignon, Arles, Nimes, Aigues, Mortes.

Paris: Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, 1918 (?). First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. 20pp; centerspread map in color, two color plates, illus throughout from photographs. 10.25" x 7.25" A handsome travel brochure. More

Price: $25.00

Illinois Central

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL-ROAD COMPANY, OFFERS FOR SALE OVER 2,000,000 ACRES, SELECTED FARMING AND WOOD LANDS, IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS, TO SUIT PURCHASERS, ON LONG CREDITS, & AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST, SITUATED ON EACH SIDE OF THEIR RAIL-ROAD, EXTENDING ALL THE WAY FROM THE EXTREME NORTH TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

New-York: Isaac J. Oliver, Printer, 1856. First edition thus. Softcover. 64pp, sewn. Self-wrappers, string tied; faint foxing to first and last few leaves. 8.5" x 5.5" [Sabin 34317--more acreage was offered in 1854 and 1855. Buck, Travel & Description, locates five copies with this variant imprint by Oliver.]... More

Price: $325.00

Illinois Central Railroad

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OFFERS FOR SALE OVER 1,500,000 ACRES, SELECTED FARMING AND WOOD LANDS IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS, TO SUIT PURCHASERS, ON LONG CREDITS AND AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST, SITUATED ON EACH SIDE OF THEIR RAILROAD, EXTENDING ALL THE WAY FROM THE EXTREME NORTH TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. 80pp. Bound in at front: Outline Map of Illinois; Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Rail Road Lands (double-page map); woodcut frontispiece, "Prairie Scene in Illinois." Six woodcuts in the text. Bound in at back: four pages of broadside-style ads..... More

Price: $500.00

Results 1 - 25 (of 63)

Page 1 of 3