Track Map Offering #25

March 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. A Souvenir Brochure of the “Old Fashioned Subway Ride” fantrip of Saturday, August 5, 1972, 36 years ago. It includes a copy of the usual General Order, a copy of the 1942 IRT Division Board of Transportation Map, and photographs of Low Voltage cars. However, it also includes an April 18, 1955 Supplement to the Weekday 3rd Avenue El employees timetable (7 pages), a list of distances and running times dated 1/29/54 and a 1/4/54 list of all Manhattan Division Marker codes, and finally a list of First and Last Through Trains on the 3rd Ave. El, dated 1/21/55. Extremely rare and a must in your collection!
  2. An 8.5 x 11-inch map from 1949 showing recommended routes for the Broad St. Subway extensions in Philadelphia.
  3. An 8.5 x 11-inch track plan from 1945 of the Chicago & West Towns Ry. by Marvin Landsman. Includes all car houses, power houses, mainline railway crossings and track connections to the Chicago Surface Lines.
  4. A complete 8.5 x 11-inch track map of the Montreal Tramways Company showing all trackage as of December 1948. Data is by Anthony Clegg and drawn by Omer S.A. Lavallee. Rare, indeed.
  5. A route map of Sacramento RT’s proposed Downtown-Natomas-Airport light rail line as of January 2008. It shows its relationship to major thoroughfares, location of stops and P+R lots. Very rare.
  6. An 8.5 x 11-inch track map of the Edmondton Radial Railways as of April 1949, showing tracks and lines abandoned before 1946, as well as car house track details and connections with mainline railroads.

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