Track Map Offering #23

January 2008

Once again, the ERA is making excess inventory in the Sprague Library available for sale to members. These rare items were filed away years, forgotten, until now. Enhance your personal collection by purchasing them for your own use.

No transportation enthusiast will want to be without these unusual items in their own libraries. We are proud to offer this package for only $30 including shipping to anywhere in the U.S., or $37 for Canada and all other countries. Don’t be disappointed; fill out the Special Offering Order Form (link below) and send it to us with a check or money order. No cash, please. The following list is a description of the materials being offered:

  1. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the Corpus Christi, Texas Street Railway which ran between 1910 and 1919. Produced by the Texas Division, ERA in 1968. Shows the Del Mar, South Bluff, Sea Crest, Paul Court, Nueces Bay Heights and North Beach lines, as well as the car house, power plant and the Union Railroad Depot.
  2. An 8.5 x 11-inch track plan of the electrified tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, showing all 3,000 volt DC tracks as they appeared in 1949. All yard tracks and a route map are included. Rare.
  3. A complete 8.5 x 11-inch track diagram of the Queensboro Bridge Railway, 1949, showing operating and abandoned track.
  4. A complete 8.5 x 11-inch track diagram of all trackage of the the Montreal Tramways Company, and also showing locations of the five carhouses, Vitre Yard and Youville Overhaul and Repair Shops. Track data as of December 1948.
  5. A complete 8.5 x 11-inch track map of the Duluth Street Railway as of January 1, 1927, showing track plan before construction of aerial lift bridge to Superior, Wisconsin.
  6. A Summer 1948 track diagram of the Newfoundland Light & Power Co. car lines in St. John’s, Newfoundland, just prior to motorization. Shows Newfoundland Ry. train station and track arrangement at the Water St. Car House.
  7. A Souvenir Brochure of the IRT Low-V Special of September 11, 1971 (Yes), including a 2 page General Order for running on all three Divisions, a brief very interesting 4-page synopsis, 2 photographs, an IRT car roster. 8.5 x 11-inch. Rare.

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