Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900, Available Online, English, Maps, Railroads

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Diagram of the United States of America, Mexico, the West India Islands and Isthmus of Darien; by W. T. Steiger, General Land Office. Outline map of the United States and Middle America showing proposed routes of the Pacific Rail Road and its branches in connection with the various systems of existing and unfinished rail roads from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

Contributor: Steiger, W. T. - United States. General Land Office
Date: 1854

Map

Disturnell's new map of the United States and Canada showing all the canals, rail roads, telegraph lines and principal stage routes. Map of the eastern half of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, major cities and towns, canals, roads, telegraph lines, railroads, and unfinished railroads. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: Burr, Henry A. - Disturnell, John
Date: 1851

Map

A new map of the United States. Upon which are delineated its vast works of internal communication, routes across the continent &c. showing also Canada and the Island of Cuba, Detailed general map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, state and county capitals, cities and towns, common roads, the "Oregon Route," canals, and railroads. One of the earliest maps to indicate an operating railroad west of the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to Jefferson City. Topography is indicated by hachures only in the inset of California. Indian tribes...

Contributor: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. - Williams, W. - Williams, W. (Wellington)
Date: 1851

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Mitchell's new traveller's guide through the United States, showing the rail roads, canals, stage roads &c. with distances from place to place. General map of the eastern half of the United States, framed in decorative borders, indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities and towns, roads, railroads, canals, and distances. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. - Drake, Ira S.
Date: 1853

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Colton's rail-road and military map of the United States, Mexico, the West Indies, &c. Detailed general map of portions of North America framed in decorative borders showing drainage, international and state boundaries, cities and towns, forts, railroads in operation, and proposed lines. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins) - Colton, J. H.
Date: 1862

Map

Lloyd's new county map of the United States and Canadas showing battle fields, railroads, &c., compiled from the latest government surveys & other reliable & official sources, drawn and engraved by Schơnberg ... Indicates location and date of engagements, towns, railroads, state and county boundaries, and rivers.

Contributor: Schönberg & Co. - H.H. Lloyd & Co.
Date: 1863

Map

Map of the United States and territories showing the extent of public surveys, Indian and military reservations, land grant R.R.; rail roads, canals, and other details Detailed map of the continental United States showing drainage, state boundaries, cities and towns, canals, land grant railroads, completed railroads, railroads in progress of completion, and projected lines. Major lines are named along their routes. Indian and military reservation are shown; land offices and lighthouses are also indicated. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: United States. General Land Office
Date: 1873

Map

Centennial American Republic and railroad map of the United States and of the Dominion of Canada. Compiled from the latest official sources. Shows drainage, cities and towns,and the railroad network with names of lines. Includes distance chart and view of "Main building centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876." [From published bibliography]

Contributor: Watson, Gaylord
Date: 1875

Map

Isothermal chart of the region north of the 36th Parallel &c. &c. between the Atlantic & Pacific oceans; compiled under the direction of Isaac I. Stevens, Govnr. of Washington Territory. Indicates "practicable railroad lines," and "proposed railroad lines." Summer isotherms are in red, winter isotherms are in blue.

Contributor: Stevens, Isaac Ingalls
Date: 1859

Map

Map of the canals & rail roads of the United States reduced from the large map of the U.S. One of the earliest general maps of the eastern United States showing railroads in operation. The working lines are in blue, proposed lines are in green. Canals are shown in red and yellow. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: Knight, J. W. - Tanner, Henry Schenck
Date: 1830

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Map of the canals & rail roads of the United States, reduced from the large map of the U.S.; engraved by J. Knight. General map of the eastern United States showing drainage, state boundaries, and place names. Railroads are annotated in brown, canals in blue.

Contributor: Knight, J. W. - Tanner, Henry Schenck
Date: 1840

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Map of the railroads and canals, finished, unfinished, and in contemplation, in the United States
Rail road map. Important early map of the United States. Includes drainage, canals, and cities and towns. Contains route profiles for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Columbia Railroad, Pa., and the Massachusetts railroads.

Contributor: Minor, Daniel K. - Norris, William
Date: 1834

Map

Map shewing the connection of the Baltimore and Ohio-Rail-Road with other rail roads executed or in progress throughout the United States. Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: Edward Weber & Co.
Date: 1840

Map

Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic], with proposed extension to Cleveland, Wooster, Sandusky, Toledo, Cincinnati; Michigan City, Chicago, Galena, Rock Island, St. Louis, &a; in connection with the ... Covers area between Massachusetts and Virginia and west to the Mississippi River. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads. A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at lower right of map. Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad is part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. See entry 517.

Contributor: Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad
Date: 184?

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Map, exhibiting the railway route between Baltimore & St. Louis, together with the other principal lines in the eastern, middle & western states; prepared under the direction of B. H. Latrobe, Ch. ... Map covers area from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Va., and west to the Mississippi River.

Contributor: Latrobe, Benj. H. - Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry)
Date: 1843

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Map of the United States of America to accompany Doggett's rail road guide. "The working lines of railroad are shown in color." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington D.C. Includes inset "Map of Oregon, California &c.". LC copy imperfect: foldlined, darkened along folds, lacking lower left corner. LC Railroad maps, 9 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Contributor: Doggett, John
Date: 1847

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Skeleton map showing the rail roads completed and in progress in the United States and their connection as proposed with the harbor of Pensacola, and its relative position to the various important ... Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. [From published bibliography]

Contributor: United States. Congress. House
Date: 1848

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Skeleton map showing the Rail Roads completed and in progress in the United States, and those projected through the Public Lands and their connection with the principal harbours on the Lakes and ... Outline map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads. The southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. This is one of the earliest small-scale government maps to show a railroad network. Similar to entry no. 11.

Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate
Date: 1848

Map

Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of ... Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."

Contributor: Miller & Co. - Whitney, ASA
Date: 1849

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Complete railway map designed and engraved from the original maps, charts and schedules furnished by railway engineers, agents &c to accompany the American Railway Guide. To the right of the map is an advertisement stating "American Railway Guide for the United States. Published Monthly."

Contributor: Dinsmore, Curran
Date: 185?

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Map showing the N.E. & S.W. Alabama R.R. with its connections also the principal routes between New York and New Orleans. Outline map of the eastern United states including Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. Shows the railroad network and steamship routes. Indicates the railroad land grant and the coal and iron deposits in Alabama. Distances from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, La. are shown below the title. Chartered in 1853 and 1854. Consolidated with the Wills Valley Railroad, forming the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.

Contributor: North East and South West Alabama Railroad - Hoyer & Ludwig
Date: 185?

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Pennsylvania's great highway and its tributary lines. Map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, some relief by hachures, cities and towns, the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and connecting lines.

Contributor: Kollner, Augustus
Date: 185?

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Map of the central portion of the United States showing the lines of the proposed Pacific railroads. Strip map of the United States between 36 degrees and 47 degrees north latitude. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, place names, and some trails in the western half of the map. Indicates the proposed lines for the western, central, and eastern divisions of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Contributor: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Date: 185?

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Dinsmore & Company's new and complete map of the railway system of the United States and Canada; compiled from official sources, under the direction of the editor of the "American Railway Guide." Map of the eastern United States to about the 96th Meridian showing operating and projected railroads.

Contributor: Dinsmore, Curran
Date: 1850

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Sketch illustrating the positions of the commercial cities and towns of the Eastern, Middle and Western States with the principal existing and proposed lines of communication. Shows the United States between Maine and Virginia, west ot the Mississippi River. Indicates railroads and canals.

Date: 1850

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