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Outline map covering New England states and showing the major rail connections with Montreal and Quebec, Canada. [From published bibliography]
Shows drainage, cities and towns, distances, and named railroads.
Map covers parts of Belknap, Carroll, Grafton, and Merrimac counties, N.H. [From published bibliography]
For a similar map see Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3 (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63.) p. 193.
Street map of Philadelphia and vicinity showing proposed railroads.
"The red line indicates the route of the Railroad. The green line is the route followed by Col. Fremont from the South Pass to Humboldt River."
Shows drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, battlefields, and submarine cables to Havana. Lists operating and newly chartered railroads.
Outline map of the continental United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, forts, finished and proposed railroads. [From published bibliography]
Outline map of the northeastern and north-central United States showing "railroads completed or in progress" and "railroads proposed & authorized unless named as 'projected.'"
Map shows Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Includes a table of distances and indicates "constructed & completed" and "contemplated & chartered" railroads. The Cocheco line was chartered on July 2, 1847.
Relief shown by hachures. Scale 1:6,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Map shows "practicable railway routes" between Ft. Yuma on the Colorado River and the San Francisco Bay region.
Shows eastern United States and includes relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, county boundaries, and the railroad network in red.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Railroads corrected June 5th 1873." This printing of the map includes the extension showing a portion of Canada compiled and drawn in 1871. Shows routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities" and inset "Territory of Alaska." Scale 1:3,000,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Designed to show "Milt. posts underlined in red color." LC copy not colored. Vault AACR2
Map of the middle Atlantic states showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network.
Detailed map of the continental United States indicating drainage, international, state and county boundaries in the western half of the map, cities and town, canals, and the railroad network. Unfinished railroads are indicated by dashed lines. [From published bibliography]
Outline map of the United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and names of states, with state population figures. Western states show topography by hachures. Some major rail lines are shown in the northeastern states. Besides the "Northern Route" the map also indicates four more southerly proposed routes west of the Mississippi River.
Outline sketch map of the United States west of the Mississippi River designed to show the relationship of the proposed railroad routes. First edition of the map appears in U.S. War Department, Report of the Secretary...Communicating the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations (Washington, 1855). [From published bibliography]