1885rif. 15258St. Paul: Pioneer Press n.d. 1885. Only edition 8vo pp.48; 9 full-page wood-engraved illustrations of Minnesota cities and views; very good in original printed wrappers with a map of the St. Paul Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad connections on the back. Mostly on the interior of Minnesota with an excursion into Dakota. "The following letters from a well-known correspondent who visited the Northwest in May and June 1885 are presented to the public in their present form as faithfully setting forth the actual condition and future prospects of the agricultural and other interests of that region. Pioneer Press, n.d. unknown books
1919rif. 9033663new york 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled and edited by the Regiment.Many line drawings and photographic illustrations. Marbelized front and rear endpapers. Cloth covered boards. The front cover is stamped in gilt. The lower right corner of the front cover is bumped and there is some wear to the back and front covers. hardcover books
1958rif. 83124N.p.: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen / Miller Printing Co 1958. Original printed strike placard 21" x 14". Printed in black on heavy card stock. Mild marginal wear slight toning; Very Good. The Brotherhood struck the E.J.&E. Railway in November 1958 to protest rules changes regarding seniority and the elimination of trades. The E.J. & E. was the sole source of transport for U.S. Steel's South Works and Gary plants which gave the union substantial leverage. According to contemporary accounts the strike was settled quickly. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen / Miller Printing Co unknown books
1974rif. 9033220Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum 1974. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Illustrated with numberous black & white photos. Colorado Railroad Museum hardcover books
1910rif. 43222Pottsville PA: Order of Railway Conductors 1910. Original lithograph certificate 57.75x35.75cm. printed in black on heavy cream stock accomplished in calligraphic manuscript and hand-colored with mounted original albumen photographic portrait lozenge 8cm in diameter. Stock has suffered some fairly heavy frame burn to extremities and verso blank along with some brief glue residue and paper flaws from where the stock was previously mounted not affecting image or text. Still overall Very Good the colors and photograph vibrant. Initiation certificate to ORC member William A. Nye of the Pottsville Division No. 416 P&R Ry. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Caboose No. 90073 dated July 10 1910. The head of the certificate shows a lovely red engine steaming past a grassy field over which is mounted Nye's photographic portrait though the largest portion of the piece is devoted to an oversized symbol of the ORC a large circle 23cm in diameter divided into three equal parts depicting an arm with a coupling an arm with a lantern and whistle and an arm entwined with a snake-like chain. Order of Railway Conductors unknown books
1914rif. 24899Cleveland: Britton Printing Company 1914. First Edition. Large thick octavo 24cm.; original full sheep red and black morocco gilt spine labels all edges marbled floral endpapers; 61134pp.; illus. text in double column. Some peeling and cracking to leather extremities scuffed; textblock fine. About Very Good. Complete run for the year 1914 of a monthly published by the Brotherhood. Articles include Arthur Brisbane's "Female Labor and Minimum Wage"; Knud Benson's "The Panama Railroad"; R.H. Newcomb's "American Railroad Company Porto Rico"; and countless articles on safety and child labor. Poetry and fiction also present. Britton Printing Company unknown books
1905rif. 9016813Chicago: Rand McNally 1905. Hardcover. Fine. A History of the Chicago and Northwestern Railrway System. Bound in white cloth. Rand McNally hardcover books
1910rif. 13268St. Louis MO: Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Co 1910. Lithographed map 21.5 x 22.25 inches printed in black and red. An attractive map of the great state of Texas created by the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway to promote their regional lines and encourage immigration. The map includes the company's railway lines coming down from Oklahoma and snaking through the central-eastern portion of the state down to the Gulf Coast. Steamship lines are indicated to various locations from Galveston. Within the area of the state locations are shown for areas adapted to certain crops and general regional elevation and rainfall figures are also printed sporadically across the state. This version of the map was distributed "Compliments of Lone Star Immigration Co." The top left usually where an inset map would be printed includes promotional text about the company: "Lone Star Immigration Co. Sells irrigated farms in the 'Magic Valley' of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas where 'Home' means health and comfort. Low round trip excursion rates via the M. K. & T. in our private Pullman Dining Cars on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Write our nearest office for literature and further information." Similar but shorter promo text appears in the lower left corner. OCLC reports about a dozen copies of some version of the map sponsored by different land and development companies with no holdings of this particular map from the LSIC. Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Co unknown books
1908rif. 40807Chicago Illinois 1908. Tall 8vo. Contemporary pale cloth with title stamped on spine. 6 338 pp with folding plates that are included in the pagination. Binding dusted text and plates clean. Very Good. President William Joyce informs "The Tremont & Gulf Railway Company is the outgrowth of the Tremont & Gulf Railroad which in its initial stages was merely a logging road with rather poor grades and alignment." He proudly recounts the Company's development. "The storied Tremont & Gulf Railway began life in 1902 when it laid rails from a Tremont Lumber Company railhead 9 miles from the town of Tremont to Winnfield Louisiana some 40 miles to the south. Various small expansions occurred up through 1908 when the original company the Tremont & Gulf Railroad went into foreclosure. The T&G Railway emerged as successor and promptly completed another branch of 20 miles. The shortline served a timber - rich region situated amid the mainlines of several prominent Louisiana carriers: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific; Illinois Central; Louisiana & Arkansas; Missouri Pacific. Nevertheless despite these advantages the pike lost money throughout its existence" web site of Hawkins Rails online. The Railway's original records "which had been found to be more or less incomplete and scattered" are organized compiled and printed here. OCLC 817757631 1- SMU as of March 2025. unknown books
1901rif. 013098Boston: National Publishing Company 1901. Hardcover. As New. Amazingly preserved 1901 map of all railroads in New York State in almost new condition. We unfolded it just once to take image and get measurement approx 48 x 42". 55 panels 11 arcoss 5 down with middle outer panel affixed - as issued - to panel folder which itself is as new - brown paper over board with gilt titles. In color as bright as issued. The only blemish are two small brownish curved spots that occur on close examionation in the middle of Lake Ontario. A collectible copy. National Publishing Company hardcover books
1847rif. 27881Ontario 1847. 47 1 blank pp plus two folding maps as issued: 'Map and Profile of the Great Western Railway Canada West' 48 1/2 cm x 32 cm; 'Map of the Route of the Great Western Railway Shewing its Connection with other Public Works' 35 1/2 cm x 29 cm. Versos with expertly repaired closed tears short margin tear else Very Good. The railroad is "on the precise ground that will enable it to control the trade and travel of such a vast portion of the Canadas and the prosperous American States." TPL 2850. Sabin 28478n. unknown books
1913rif. 2334Portsmouth VA: Seaboard Air Line Railway 1913. EPHEMERA MAP RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION. Center-fold Map: Map of the Sea Board Airline Railway and Connections with inset Seaboard Air Line in Florida Buffalo N.Y.: The Matthews Northrup Works 1913. 16 ½ x 9 1/8" centerfold map. 9 1/8" x 4 ¼" tall oblong bifold pamphlet; 38pp; wrapper printed in red and black and features the cities served by the rail line; 2 staple binding; train time tables printed in black; center map; 2 b&w photographic illustrations; ad for cattle raising in the south titled "Why the South Grows"; lightly age-toned edges small pencil scribble on rear; near fine. This date and publisher not found in OCLC. An interesting railway pamphlet advertising the rail routes with the timetable. The company advertises "The Shortest Line from New York to Southern Resorts" with a line called Seaboard Florida Limited traveling from "New York to Palm Beach Hotels with Only One Night Out" and "Four Hours Quickest Time New York to Tampa and the West Coast Florida." They also offered service from Florida to Cuba and steamship connections from several cities along the east coast. Two of the special trips offered were the "Homeseekers Excursions from Washington" traveling to North and South Carolina Georgia Alabama and Florida; and "Personally Conducted Tours via Pennsylvania R.R. New York to Pinehurst and Florida". [Seaboard Air Line Railway] unknown books
1880rif. 811Montreal P.Q.: Canada Railway News Co 1880. Boards. Good. 16mo square 5 7/8" x 5"; accordion fold 24pp; gilt-stamped red pebbled paper over board elaborate gilt border surrounding title including two griffins and an urn blind stamped rear board; black cloth spine; 12 glazed accordion folded panels printed grey chromolithograph illustrations one side only; bumping to corners scuffing to boards cloth on spine separated at front board head and tail but binding holding tight light soiling and creasing to pages light foxing to rear pastedown and verso last page a few folds with small separations at head or tail; good. Half-page width triptych of the town of St. John from Fort Howe illustrations including important buildings churches private residences bridges harbor view parks and street scenes around St. John. Canada Railway News Co unknown books
1882rif. 55833N.p. likely Chicago. 1882–1944. Over Sixty Years of a Southern Railroad's Finances An extensive and informative company ledger listing the assets properties profits losses and other business activities of the Canton Aberdeen & Nashville Railroad a subsidiary of the Illinois Central based in Chicago maintained over a period of more than sixty years. This ledger offers a rare glimpse into the economics of the railroad industry in the American South over a vast period of development from the immediate post-Reconstruction era to the requirements of the American war effort during World War II. The Canton Aberdeen & Nashville Railroad was incorporated on February 17 1882 as a subsidiary of the Illinois Central to acquire the branch already built in 1874 from Durant to Kosciusko Mississippi and extend it to Aberdeen and eventually to Nashville Tennessee. The line was completed as far as Aberdeen in 1888. A short disconnected section was also built from Winfield to Brilliant Alabama to serve several coal mines. The railway was officially dissolved and absorbed into the Illinois Central Railroad on August 21 1953. The current ledger records company activity for the great majority of the life of the Canton Aberdeen & Nashville Railroad. The ledger begins in December 1882 the year of incorporation of the railroad and is written in at least five distinct but highly readable hands. The early pages detail the "permanent expenditures" such as stock commitments construction costs equipment and interest; the construction costs are broken out into thirty-three line items including bridges cross ties grading iron rails right of way section houses stationery almost $50000 worth telegraph lines water stations and much more. This is followed by earnings statements profit and loss reports land costs mortgages additional permanent expenditures "sundries" to the Illinois Central and capital stock officers' and clerks' salaries bond payments advertising costs and other types of regularly-reported accounting through December 1944. Railroad accounting here is often reported as "Gross Receipts" balanced against "Operation Expenses" every quarter or six months and is later encapsulated as periodic "Additions and Betterments" and "Profit and Loss" statements in the latter two decades of the ledger. As the 20th century proceeds the ledger records business transactions between the Illinois Central and the Chicago St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad. The latter was based in Kentucky but was also working to build railroad lines in Mississippi and Tennessee during this time. The Illinois Central apparently made occasional "capital advances" to the Chicago St. Louis and New Orleans starting in 1913 which the latter then repaid in December 1919. The Illinois Central continued to make capital advances to the Chicago St. Louis and New Orleans throughout the time period recorded here. The Illinois Central would buy the Chicago St. Louis and New Orleans outright in 1951 absorbing its operations in Kentucky Tennessee and Mississippi. Other activities beyond the normal operations of the company include additional tracks and rail services provided to mining and manufacturing companies in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In December 1939 the Illinois Central agreed to construct "tracks to industry" located on property belonging to the American Colloid Company in Aberdeen Mississippi. The American Colloid Company appears to have been mining bentonite in Aberdeen and was in need of spur tracks to move their product to market or perhaps manufacturing plants. The Illinois Central also constructed further "tracks to industries" in December 1941 namely to the Nickles Lumber Company in Aberdeen and Moeller & Vandenboom also a lumber company in Ethel Mississippi. Depreciation "retirement or abandonment of nondepreciable property" "service value of nondepreciable" retired property and other "property retirements" occupy the latter few pages of the ledger. A dense and useful record of a southern railway's business activities for over half a century. Records for railroads operating in the American South are scarce especially for such a vast span of time. Folio. Contemporary black pebbled cloth boards with later red leather corners and backstrip gilt title on front board. Endpapers renewed. Minor rubbing and soiling to boards. Light thumb-soiling to text. Very good. hardcover books
1860rif. 32561860. NEW JERSEY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION CO. Free Legislation for Railroads. A History of the Railroad Conflict in the Eighty- Fourth Legislature of New Jersey; and the Opening of Free Legislation for Railroads. Trenton 1860. 79 p. Removed. A fine summary of the development of railroads in New Jersey and a condemnation of the Camden and Amboy Railroad and of the railroad monopoly in the state. The anonymous author examines the various railroad bills presented at the recent session of the legislature and demonstrates the power of the monopoly interests in influencing the legislators to pass or reject bills according to the wishes of the monopoly. Much on the bill for a Hoboken and Newark railroad. In some copies the "Conclusion. Evils of monopoly" text on p. 79 is extended to p. 80. See Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1749 for a full description of the work. unknown books
1912rif. 45011912. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY. Proposed Legislation in New Jersey Respecting the Compulsory Abolition of Railroad Grade Crossings. N.p. 1912. 25 p. Stitched. The Jersey Central's opposition to impending legislation. unknown books
1867rif. 21371867. UNITED NEW JERSEY RAILROAD AND CANAL CO. First Joint Report of the Associated Delaware & Raritan Canal Co. Camden & Amboy R.R. & Transportation Co. and New Jersey R.R. & Transportation Co . April 1867. Philadelphia 1867. 24 p. Removed. Includes a history of the formation of the joint companies monopoly the uniting with the N.J.R.R. financial statistics etc. unknown books
1872rif. 10051872. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY. Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Directors . 1872. New York 1872. 23 1 p. Removed. unknown books
1859rif. 4881859. PENNSYLVANIA. Lehigh Luzerne Railroad. Third Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad Company . January 11th 1859. Philadelphia 1859. 9 1 p. Removed. Fine. unknown books
1844rif. 10061844. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY. Arguments of Mr. James E. Gowen Mr. Franklin B. Gowen Hon. Geo. M. Robeson and Hon. B. Williamson . in the Case of Dinsmore vs. the Railroad Co . Philadelphia 1884. 246 p. Wrappers front chipped and a bit brittle rear lacking. Dispute over the right to lease the company's property. unknown books
1871rif. 10041871. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY. Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors to the Stockholders of the Central R.R. Co. of New Jersey January 1 1871. New York 1871. 17 1 p. Wrappers a bit brittle old library stamp. unknown books
1858rif. 4871858. PENNSYLVANIA. Lehigh Luzerne Railroad. Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad Company . with the Engineer's Report January 12th 1858. Philadelphia 1858. 15 1 p. Removed. Two-inch diameter stain on title and first few pages else fine. Inscribed by A.S. Roberts president to Martin Coryell chief engineer. unknown books
1875rif. 128431875. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY. Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Directors . 1875. New York 1875. 18 1 p. Wrappers. Stain along bottom margin. unknown books
rif. 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
1940rif. acs1213Richmond Va.: Chesapeake & Ohio Railway n.d. ca. 1940. Single sheet printed both sides and folded into 20 panels. Photos map tour information and prices. “Chessie” sleeping next to a package tied with a ribbon and a bow on front cover. Fine. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, n.d. [ca. 1940.] unknown books
