Track Map Offering #31

September 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. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the Elgin and Belvidere Electric Co., operators of an interurban between Elgin and Belvidere, Illinois, and the Rockford and Interurban Railway, connecting Freeport and Rockford, Illinois with Janesville, Wisconsin. Connecting interurban lines are also shown. From Electric Traction Quarterly.
  2. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Co. which operated between Buffalo, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania. Also included are the lines of the Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railway, local lines in Erie and connecting services in Buffalo.
  3. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map from 1922 of the Oklahoma Railway Co. showing local lines, plus the Norman, El Reno and Guthrie interurbans and the many railroad crossings in the city. Again, from Electric Traction Quarterly.
  4. A 1922 route map of the Oklahoma Lines interurbans from Norman, El Reno and Guthrie to Oklahoma City. The map complements the Oklahoma City route map above. Connecting Class I steam rail lines are shown.
  5. An 8.5 x 11-inch route map of the Ottawa Electric Railway and the Hull Electric Railway when these systems were almost complete. Locations of car houses and main line railroads are shown. This map is complements of the Upper Canada Railway Society.
  6. A fabulous souvenir brochure of the Memorial Day, May 27, 2002 fantrip, “Old Days on the BMT,” sponsored by the New York Model Transit Association and run over various lines on the former BMT Division using D-Type cars. This 24-page brochure contains rare and interesting old photographs and BU Car Data Sheets.

WWW ERA ONLINE