Track Map Offering #28

June 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 of the Charles City Western Railway and the proximity and location of all connecting main line railroads in July 1950 as provided by John H. Schmidt and drawn by Marvin Landsman. Quite rare.
  2. 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the nine electric railroads of the Great Salt Lake Valley. This 569-mile network ran between Payson, Utah and Preston, Idaho centering on Salt Lake City and Ogden with all towns shown as well. Extremely rare.
  3. 8.5 x 11-inch track map of the Emigration Canyon Railroad in 1917, which ran electric rail service between Salt Lake City and Pinecrest, Red Quarry, White Quarry, Ft. Douglas and Perkins. Fantastic find!
  4. June 1950 track map of the electric line owned by the Village of East Troy, Wisconsin, a remnanent of the Milwaukee Electric’s East Troy-Milwaukee line and now still runs intact as a 10-mile trolley museum line.
  5. 8.5 x 11-inch track plan from August 1946 of the Southern Indiana Ry. by Marvin Landsman. This 7-mile long electric freight line connected Speed and Watson, Indiana, using two steeple cab locos and a box cab. Nice.
  6. Complete 8.5 x 11-inch track plan of the Seaview Avenue Line in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a remnant of a former Connecticut Company trolley freight operation, retained to serve the Stanley Works. Unusual.
  7. Souvenir Brochure of the fantrip marking the 70th Anniversary of the Opening of the IRT Subway, held on October 27, 1974. The great brochure contains five pages of history, five pages of extremely rare photographs, an IRT Company route map from the late 1930s, a complete roster of subway cars and an accompanying General Order governing the trip using Low-Voltage cars on both the A and B Divisions.

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