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Sioux City and Pacific Railroad CompanyABAA

Northern Nebraska Considered Geographically Topographically Geologically and Experimentally Showing the Chances for Investment in the Eastern Part and for Free Homes in the West the Country Traversed by the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad

réf. 7236Battle Creek Mich.: Review & Herald Steam Printing house 1883. 8vo 8.5" x 5.75" printed wrappers. 46 pp. Folding map 12.75" x 18.25" plus margins. CONDITION: Good dampstaining at covers and the top of the second half of the pamphlet. Light vertical crease at middle throughout. Map good one minor tear at margin. A promotional pamphlet for land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad including former Indian reservation lands with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad the railroad having recently extended to Fort Niobrara Nebraska and thereby placing within reach of home-seekers millions of acres of free government lands. This is followed by an exhaustive overview of Northern Nebraska and its attractions geographical outlines physical geography topography and neighboring areas including Indian camps and more. A good portion of the text is devoted to Northern Nebraska's geology covering the Old Forest Bed Epoch the origins of "modern Nebraska" "How Came that Grand Old Forest" and so forth. Also included are testimonials from dozens of farmers who settled in Northern Nebraska including "exceptional cases" and highlighted is a large buffalo flat "8 miles long by 3 miles wide". The prospective settler is advised on how to reach these lands how to make a profitable investment in Nebraska lands and Omaha Reserve lands formerly home to the Omaha tribe and how to acquire them. A letter from the U.S. Land Office in Nebraska to the General Passenger Agent of the Sioux City & Pacific R.R. is printed here as well. Ads are included for the Land Agency of I. N. Taylor of Oakdale and Neligh Nebraska and real estate dealers Richards & Keene of Nebraska. The text concludes with a price list of commodities in Northern Nebraska. The map entitled "Sioux City & Pacific R.R. and connections to the Free Homes for the Million" by Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago spans from Council Bluffs Omaha in the east to the Black Hills in the west and from Pierre South Dakota in the north to a portion of Colorado in the south. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad and its connections are shown in bold connecting with other railroad routes across the midwest. Battle Creek, Mich.: Review & Herald Steam Printing house, 1883 unknown books

James Arsenault & Company · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 847,08 €

Colonial India Railway SystemABAA

Indian Railways from the Jumna Bridge Works to the Final Years of British Rule Archive of 20 Pieces 1869-1946

1869réf. 235661869. Indian railway archive spanning 1869 to 1946 documenting the construction financing administration and everyday operation of one of the largest transportation systems created under colonial rule. Railways transformed the movement of people commodities troops and information across the subcontinent linking port cities pilgrimage centers agricultural districts and frontier regions through a network that expanded from the first passenger line of 1853 into tens of thousands of miles of track by the twentieth century. The archive brings together engineering documentation corporate finance operating manuals photographic views and press photographs tracing the railway from its physical construction in 1869 to its role in the daily movement of millions of passengers during the final decades of British India. Archive of 20 pieces including 16 silver gelatin and black and white real photo postcard photographs three railway publications and one Bengal Provincial Railway Company share certificate India 1869 to 1946. The archive includes an 1895 ten-rupee share certificate issued by The Bengal Provincial Railway Company Limited; a 1946 East Indian Railway timetable; a 1945-1946 North Western Railway Karachi Division working timetable carrying staff regulations and train schedules; and an 1869 engineering publication containing a large foldout schematic titled "Jumna Bridge Delhi Railway" illustrating foundation wells and bridge construction methods. The photographs depict railway stations crowded with passengers and pilgrims; vendors selling fruit through train windows; station platforms occupied by European and Indian travelers; native preachers distributing religious tracts in a railway station; heavily congested rail traffic; locomotives operating through forested sections of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway; the Darjeeling Loop and Double Loop engineering works; and press photographs documenting derailments crowding and railway accidents. Several photographs bear typed news agency captions. The press photographs place the railway within crisis reporting including the 1945 Calcutta Hindu Muslim riot crowds on railway tracks the Hyderabad passenger train bridge collapse that killed more than 112 people and the Madras flood related train disaster reported as South India's worst rail disaster with nearly 150 killed. The material spans nearly the entire history of railway development in colonial India from nineteenth-century bridge engineering and railway finance through the mature network of the 1940s. The Bengal Provincial Railway certificate reflects the speculative capital that financed railway expansion while the Jumna Bridge plans document the engineering techniques required to carry rail lines across major river systems. The Darjeeling views record one of the most celebrated mountain railways of the colonial world built to overcome steep Himalayan terrain through loops reverses and narrow-gauge construction. The 1946 timetables and photographs of crowded stations pilgrims vendors and accident scenes show how railways had become indispensable to commercial exchange religious travel and mass mobility by the final years before Partition and independence. Light surface wear occasional creasing expected age toning and minor handling wear throughout; foldout engineering plate intact. Overall very good condition. A concentrated record of how railway finance engineering administration and passenger movement combined to create the transportation system that reshaped colonial India. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis785,00 $US≈ 699,96 €

RailroadABAA

Volunteer Hand Labor and Historic Railroad Preservation 37 Numbered Photographs c. 1974

1974réf. 236031974. Historic railroad preservation photo archive depicting men rebuilding track by hand likely in Wisconsin circa 1974 to 1978 recording the labor behind an early heritage railroad or museum railroad operation. The photographs show a mixed volunteer crew repairing a rural line with bars jacks hand tools pneumatic tools and improvised supplies rather than large production machinery. The group belongs to the 1970s expansion of railroad preservation when museums and local groups saved equipment and short stretches of track left behind by the contraction of American branch line service. Photo archive of 37 sequentially numbered silver gelatin photographs likely drawn from a larger project record approximately 8 x 10 inches likely Wisconsin circa 1974 to 1978. The photographs show men working along a wooded railroad right of way pulling spikes driving spikes lifting rail shoveling ballast checking alignment and using track jacks and long lining bars to shift rail into place. Several images show workers kneeling over ties standing astride rails handling buckets and tools and watching as others operate pneumatic equipment. Other views show a small rail yard with old freight cars cabooses work equipment a train or railcar numbered 31 and a station or depot building with a partially visible sign beginning "North." One photograph shows a worker using a "Pratt & Lambert Vapex" bucket apparently repurposed for grease compound bolts or other maintenance material. The images also include informal portraits of the crew older men and younger men working together a few posed groupings and a final handshake giving the archive the character of a project record rather than a railroad publicity file. By the 1970s many railroad preservation groups had moved beyond saving locomotives and passenger cars into the harder work of maintaining actual track. Abandoned or lightly used branch lines required tie replacement rail alignment ballast work and mechanical repair before historic trains could operate for the public. These photographs document that work at ground level: men on their knees at the rail hand tools in use old rolling stock nearby and a rural station setting that points toward a small preservation railroad rather than a commercial mainline crew. Light surface wear with occasional handling marks. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of hand track work volunteer maintenance and early historic railroad preservation likely in Wisconsin during the 1970s. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 401,25 €

Steam Locomotive ; RailroadABAA

Oakland Station and Colorado Historic Railroad Museum Steam Equipment 56 Photographs 1974

1974réf. 236041974. Photographic archive of steam locomotives freight cars cabooses shop interiors and depot architecture in Colorado and Oakland Maryland many dated September 1974 as older railroad equipment was kept repaired displayed and recorded after regular service. The Colorado images center on Denver and Rio Grande equipment including D&RGW No. 346 built by Baldwin in 1881 and D&RG No. 583 built by Baldwin in 1890 later renumbered 683 and preserved at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The Maryland images include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station at Oakland built in 1884 and listed on the National Register in 1974 the same year these photographs were made. Photo archive of 56 silver gelatin photographs 5 x 3 inches with negligible variation Colorado and Oakland Maryland many dated September 1974. D&RGW No. 346 appears from the front and side with its headlight number plate boiler front lamps pilot cab tender lettering and a man standing beside the locomotive. Other views include D&RG No. 583 or later No. 683 in museum display; D&RGW No. 167 material including a small structure marked "no agua"; caboose No. 207 with a boy standing in front of the painted number; locomotive No. 444 near industrial buildings; and a Coors refrigerator car lettered "Adolph Coors Golden Colorado" "ventilator" "refrigerator" and "A.D.C.X. 5400." The Coors car corresponds to the museum's No. 5400 refrigerator car repainted to represent the billboard refrigerator cars used by Coors after Prohibition. Interior views include forklifts cabinets tanks hoses work benches wheels boilers stored parts and repair areas not finished exhibit displays. The Oakland station photographs record the Queen Anne brick B&O depot with arched openings platform canopy ornamental brackets and tower. The archive includes restoration and preservation material for both railroad equipment and railroad buildings: No. 346 as a nineteenth-century narrow gauge locomotive under museum custody; No. 583 or 683 as a surviving standard gauge Rio Grande steam locomotive; caboose 207 the Coors refrigerator car and shop interiors for freight storage and maintenance work; and the Oakland station as a working railroad building newly recognized as historic architecture in 1974. Light handling creases and some silvering visible in the photographs. Overall good condition. A 1974 record of locomotives rolling stock shops and depot buildings in railroad preservation. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 401,25 €

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