Track Map Offering #32

October 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 Montreal’s Expo Express (4 stations) and Mini-rail (7 stations) that ran during the 1967 Montreal World’s Fair, Man and His World. Expo Express was steel wheel on steel rail rapid transit service. The map shows both systems in relation on St. Helena’s Island to the newly opened Montreal Metro. Rare.
  2. A track plan of the Montreal Metro as it was at its opening in 1967. 8.5 x 11-inch. Map includes all tracks, including non-service track, connecting track and tracks at their Cremazie Maintenance and Overhaul Shops. Map is dated December 1966. Very nice.
  3. A route map of the Montreal Metro in relation to the Montreal bus network at the time of opening. 8.5 x 11-inch. Map is dated December, 1966 and it complements the track plan above.
  4. A 1962 track map of the Oshawa Railways, showing its main line from North Oshawa to Cedardale, the abandoned streetcar line on Simcoe Street, Oshawa, the abandoned Port Oshawa line, the connection with the Toronto Eastern Ry., track connections with both the Canadian National Ry. and the Canadian Pacific Ry., plus track plans at their car house. 8.5 x 11-inch. Very nice for your collection.
  5. A December, 1967 route map of the former Newfoundland Railways, showing all lines, Port-aux-Basques to St. John’s, Argentia branch, Clarenville-Bonavista line, Lewisporte branch, plus the Cabot Straight ferries to North Sydney, NS. Even if you never rode the Newfie Bullet for the 22-hour trip on the 3-foot six-inch gauge main line, you’ll want this wonderful 8.5 x 11-inch map.
  6. A Souvenir Brochure for the Interborough Subway Special run with Low Voltage Cars on Sunday, October 28, 1973. Included is a copy of the General Order for the trip, a GO for the opening of the three-line West Side service in 1959,
  7. A March 1933 table of Track Mileage, a current list of car markers, a story on signals and a plan of various IND signals and a car plan for 1915-16-17 subway steel cars and an IRT Company route map.

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