Track Map Offering #26

April 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. All-time route map of electric railroads in Central California drawn by Marvin Landsman in March 1950. This very thorough, extremely rare 8.5 x 14-inch presentation shows the relationship of each system to the traction network in Central California as a whole. A must for the serious collector.
  2. A complete track plan of the Regina Municipal Railway in Canada, by John Kneiling and Jim Brown, showing all lines in Regina in 1946. This 8.5 x 11-inch map was drawn in February 1950. Very interesting.
  3. A track plan of the Calgary Municipal Railway dated January 22, 1945. This 8.5 x 11-inch map shows all 14 lines of the entire Calgary trolley network. Indeed, a real gem!
  4. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the New York Central Railroad’s Electric Division (New York), again drawn by Marvin Landsman in May 1950. This map shows both electric and non-electric lines and their distance in miles from Grand Central Terminal. Well worth the investment.
  5. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map showing the four proposed rapid transit lines of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco in June 1950. This map also shows all proposed stations on the Geary St., Lincoln Way, West Portal Ave. and Mission St./Mission Freeway rapid transit lines. An historic document everyone will want.
  6. A souvenir brochure of the “BMT Culver Special” which ran on March 23, 1974, using BMT Standard A/B Class cars 2390-1-2 on both the BMT and Independent Subways. Included in this nine-page brochure is a two-page General Order, track maps of the 38th Street/8th Avenue Yard, the Culver line, a detailed map of downtown Brooklyn, the IND Crosstown and Jamaica lines and the 179th Street terminal complex. Rare!

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