Historic Map Library - North American Railroads - 1870-1917
This CD-ROM is loaded with 144 maps showing all major North American railroad lines and many of the smaller ones existing between the years of 1870 and 1917. Included are numerous station locations you simply will not find on present-day maps.
Here is a complete list of the included 144 maps. . .
Alabama & Chattanooga 1870
Allegheny Valley Railroad 1870
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (eastern) 1917
Atichson, Topeka & Santa Fe (western) 1917
Atlantic & Gulf 1870
Atlantic & Pacific 1884
Atlantic Coast Line 1902
Baltimore & Ohio (eastern) 1905
Baltimore & Ohio (western) 1905
Baltimore & Ohio 1870
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic 1895
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad 1896
Belt Railway Company of Chicago
Boston & Albany Railroad 1870
Boston & Maine Railway 1870
Brinson Railway (Savannah Northwestern) 1909
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad 1890
Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railroad 1884
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway 1892
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad 1884
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad 1870
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway 1892
Canadian Pacific Railroad (eastern) 1917
Canadian Pacific Railroad (western) 1917
Cape Girardeau Southwestern Railway 1890
Central Iowa Railway 1884
Central of New Jersey Railroad 1891
Central of New Jersey Railroad 1917
Central of New Jersey, Allentown Line 1870
Central Pacific Railroad 1870
Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Georgia 1890
Centralia & Chester Railroad 1893
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad 1917
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 1890
Chicago & Alton System 1917
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad 1870
Chicago & North-Western Railway 1890
Chicago & Southwestern Railway 1870
Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railway 1870
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad 1890
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (eastern) 1917
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (western) 1917
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway 1884
Choctaw Oklahoma & gulf Railroad 1899
Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago Railroad 1906
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway 1895
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 1892
Cleveland, Columbus, Cinncinnati & Indianapolis Railway 1870
Colorado & Southern (northern)1907
Colorado & Southern (southern) 1907
Connecticut River Railway 1870
Delaware Railway 1870
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 1890
Denver & Rio Grande System (eastern) 1917
Denver & Rio Grande System (western) 1917
Detroit & Lima Northern Railway 1897
Erie Railroad (eastern) 1917
Erie Railroad (western) 1917
Erie Railroad 1895
Georgia Coast & Piedmont Railroad 1907
Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad 1890
Grand Trunk System (eastern) 1917
Grand Trunk System (western) 1917W
Great Northern Railway 1895
Great Southern Mail Route 1870
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad 1901
Gulf, Texas & Western Railway 1909
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway 1870
Hocking Valley Railwy 1900
Hudson River Railroad 1884
Illinois Central Railroad (northern) 1917
Illinois Central Railroad (southern) 1917
Illinois Central Railroad 1870
Illinois Midland Railway 1884
Intercolonial System1917
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway 1905
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad 1892
Kansas Pacific Railway 1870
Lake Erie & Western Railroad 1891
Lake Shore Electric Railway 1908
Lehigh Valley Route 1890
Little Miami Railway 1870
Louisvile & Cincinnati Railroad 1870
Louisville Route 1870
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway 1890
Louisville, St. Louis & Texas Railway 1892
Michigan Central Railroad 1870
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 1870
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad 1901
Mississippi River & Bon Terre Railway 1907
Missouri Pacific Railroad (eastern) 1917
Missouri Pacific Railroad (western) 1917
Missouri Valley Railway 1870
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 1890
Mobile & Ohio Railroad 1870
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway 1890
New Orleans Great Northern Railroad 1905
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad 1897
New York Central (eastern) 1917
New York Central (western) 1917
New York, New Haven & Hartford (eastern) 1917
New York, New Haven & Hartford (western) 1917
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad 1890
Norfolk & Southern Railway 1907
Norfolk & Western System 1917
Northern Pacific Railroad 1884
Northern Pacific Railroad 1890
Northwestern Pacific Railroad 1900
Northwestern Pacific Railroad 1906
Ohio River Railroad 1890
Old Colony Railroad 1884
Pennsylvania Central Railway 1870
Pennsylvania Lines 1890
Pennsylvania Railroad 1917
Phladelphia & Reading Railroad 1890
Phladelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railway 1870
Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad 1910
Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Railway (etc.) 1870
Pittsburgh, Shenango & Lake Erie Railroad 1895
Portland & Rlumford Falls Railway 1895
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad 1884
Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad 1884
Sacramento Northern Railway 1915
San Francisco & North Pacific Railway 1890
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad 1917
Savannah, Augusta & Northern Railway 1907
Shore Line Railroad 1884
Southern Indiana Railway 1906
Southern Pacific, Atlantic System 1893
Southern Pacific, Pacific System 1890
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway 1884
St. Louis & Southwestern Railway 1890
St. Louis & St. Joseph Railroad 1870
St. Paul & Duluth Railroad 1893
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway 1884
Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway 1884
Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway 1870
Virginian Railway 1922
Western Maryland Railroad 1895
Western Union Railroad 1870
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad 1884
Wilmington & Weldon Railway 1870
Wisconsin Central Railway 1906
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