Track Map Offering #27

May 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. 8.5 x 11-inch route map from 1930 of the trolley and interurban lines of the New York State Railways Syracuse lines, including a list of lines by route number and the dates of their abandonment/motorization. Rare!
  2. 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the Canadian National Railways Montmorency Division in 1958. This is the former Quebec Railway, Light and Power interurban between Quebec City, Montmorency, St. Anne de Beaupre and St. Joachim which was de-electrified that year. Very unusual.
  3. Complete 8.5 x 11-inch track map of the trolley and interurban lines of the Milwaukee and Suburban Transport Corp., the former Milwaukee Electric Lines. Railroads, car houses and waterways are included. Nice!
  4. Complete 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the British Columbia Electric Railway Co., Limited Interurban Division. Includes line to Chilliwack, Sapperton, New Westminster and Marpole-Steveston. Informative!
  5. 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the newly opened (in 1958) Chicago Transit Authority’s Congress St. Expressway line in relation to connecting rapid transit lines and intersecting streets. Very unusual.
  6. 8.5 x 11-inch route map of Boston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority rapid transit routes in July 1958. Good.
  7. Souvenir Brochure of the Sunday, May 26, 1974 excursion, “The Flushing and Astoria Special” using IRT Low Voltage type cars. The brochure has a two-page General Order, an October 13, 1949 notice detailing the conversion of these lines from two-divisional operation to the current separate running, a 1965 six-page detailed history by David Rogoff, a 1925 description of BMT rapid transit routes with map and a four-page track map of the lines covered on the trip. A must for every subway enthusiast.

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