American Railway Guide
Dinsmore's American Railroad And Steam Navigation Guide
Dinsmore's American Railroad And Steam Navigation Guide
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| Sample Map Title | Sample Railway Guide Cover | |
| These early guides provide a comprehensive source for transportation in the 1850s as railroads were planned, constructed and changed ownership. Early guides include a listing of canals and stages in addition to railroads. Later guides included hotel information, city descriptions, routes listing between cities requiring change of trains. Individual time-tables included scheduled trains, stops, mileage and ticket costs. This was before standard time zones, Each railroad may have used a different city's high-noon time to base time-tables on, making connection planning more difficult. | ||
| Date | Ohio portion of U.S.
Map (click on map for hi-res jpg bitonal image) |
Available Scans |
1850 map only |
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Full Map at https://www.loc.gov/item/98688311/ |
| 1851 Dec. |
Kalmbach reprinted this guide in 1945. Scans are available from multiple sources and the fascimile found in libraries and booksellers. |
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| 1850-1856 NY Public Library |
Bound volumes at the New York Public Library with multiple guides in most. Because they were bound, the inner portion of the pages are often not readable on image. Maps were scanned if available, but not at high resolution. Individual pages can be downloaded. |
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| 1854 July |
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1856 map only |
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Full Map at https://www.loc.gov/item/98688320/ |
1859 May personal collection 1856
copyright on map |
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| Compilation for a Specific Railroads 1850-1859 | PRR, Philadelphia to Pittsburg Route (PDF 11MB) |
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| Addiitional dates not yet digitized can can be found in Worldcat listing for American Railway Guide | ||
