Track Map Offering #30

August 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 route map of the trolley lines of the New York State Railways, circa 1914, 8.5 x 11-inch. Included are six small insets showing local trolley routes in Rochester, Syracuse, Oneida, Rome and Utica. Remember that the network extended from Rochester to Little Falls and it shows all railroads in use along with the trolleys.
  2. A 1910-era route map of the Coral Gables Trolley and the Coral Gables Rapid Transit Co. of Florida. 8.5 x 11-inch and a very rare find, indeed. Coral Gables was just being developed at the time the map was published.
  3. A 1915 route map of the San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways and shows what was later all the local Key System car lines running between Albany, Calif. and San Leandro, including the line to the Key Route Pier and the connecting ferry to San Francisco. 8.5 x 11-inch. A real jewel!
  4. A route map of the Pittsburgh Railways Company system and its predecessors about in 1910. Complete and of extreme interest. 8.5 x 11-inch. A must for your collection of maps.
  5. An 8.5 x 11-inch route diagram of the electric lines of New Orleans Public Service, Inc., as of March 1926. Connecting mainline railroads are also shown. A true treasure to have.
  6. A Souvenir Brochure of the “BMT Culver Special,” which ran on Saturday, March 23, 1974, using two of the three preserved D-Type Triplex cars over the BMT and IND Division rapid transit lines of the NYCTA. Included is a copy of the two-page General Order, a seven-page track map with special detailed track diagrams of complex interlocking plants and very good footnotes and a Board of Transportation map showing the BMT Division subway an el lines. Fantastic!

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