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1882 Time Table showing the First Transcontinental US railroad: "Union and Central Pacific Railroad Line. The Great American Over-Land Route", with large color map by First US transcontinental railroad - 1882

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1882 Time Table showing the First Transcontinental US railroad: "Union and Central Pacific Railroad Line. The Great American Over-Land Route", with large color map by First US transcontinental railroad - 1882

1882 Time Table showing the First Transcontinental US railroad: "Union and Central Pacific Railroad Line. The Great American Over-Land Route", with large color map

by First US transcontinental railroad

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Chicago: Rand McNally, 1882. Good + overall. Pocket time table with large color map showing the western portion of the first transcontinental railroad, from Council Bluffs and Kansas City and extending west to California. This particular time table is from an Australian collection; the route from Australia has been marked in orange pencil on the map, starting with the trip across the Atlantic, arrival in New York, trip up to Boston, then Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Omaha/Council Bluffs, and from there due west on the Pacific Union line to San Francisco. This first transcontinental line, known as the "Overland Route", was built between 1863 and 1869, when the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific connected at Council Bluffs, and linked up with the existing network to the east, thereby providing rail service for the first time from coast to coast. On May 10, 1869, the famous "Last Spike" was driven at Promontory, Utah, establishing a transportation network which supercharged the economy and migration to the American West. The time table boasts a schedule time between New York of only 7 days for first class trains! Through tickets to Europe are offered, and rates to California from New York "are at present about $138.30 first class; $105.00 second-class; $75.00 third class passage". When the map is folded, one side is devoted to time tables, and the other side to general information. Includes text on Montana and Colorado, luring settlers: "Among the promising Territories of the Union none is at present enjoying a more vigorous growth than Montana. ... [this] line in now completed to Butte City, the mining centre of the Territory, and reduces the stage distance to principal points to from eight to twenty-four hours". On Colorado: "The Central and Union Pacific is the only line which can carry passengers from California, Nevada or the Coast, through the wonderfully prosperous and picturesque young state of Colorado. ... Every mountain range and every gulch is being prospected..." The time table with "Form B-6-82" at the bottom of the front panel, and "Omaha Republican Print", which suggests that the map the text side of the map was printed in Omaha. 4 1/2 x 8 1/4" folded, folding open 8 times to 16 1/4 x 43 1/2 wide", with attractive large color map showing the rail lines in black, with branch lines extending north into Montana and Oregon, and south in to Colorado and Utah. Map shows the entire United States as far east as Nova Scotia. The front and back cover panels are both illustrated; one with a map showing an across the world voyage commencing in Europe, crossing the Atlantic and the US to San Francisco, and the Pacific to Japan, Hong Kong, Sidney (sic) and New Zealand. The other with a great woodblock of the elevated bridge at Omaha. A few splits at folds, ruffled bottom edges, o/w very good.

  • Bookseller Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints US (US)
  • Book Condition Used - Good + overall
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher Rand McNally
  • Place of Publication Chicago
  • Date Published 1882