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Houston & Texas Central Railway Company. Map showing the Houston & Texas Central Railroad and its connections, prepared at Colton's Geographic Establishment, N.Y., 1867. Part of southwestern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1867. Scale ca. 1:3,200,000.

Hudson River Railroad. Map of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and its principal connections. Eastern half of the United States showing major drainage, cities and towns, the railroad network, with names of lines, and the main ones indicated in heavy black. No railroad connections appear in the south where the hand indicator is located. Rand McNally and Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, [1876]

Hillsborough and Cincinnati Railroad Company. Hillsborough & Cincinnati Railroad map extending from Jackson, Jackson Co. Ohio to Parkersburg, Va., as located in 1853 under the direction of Ellwood Morris, Chief Eng. N. E. Jones, S. Linton, Princ. Assist. Engrs. Topographic strip map indicating drainage, relief by hachures, roads, houses, property owners names, and county names. This line was chartered in Ohio, March 2, 1846. It was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860. Jacobi, L. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1853] Scale 1:126,720.

Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company. Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and its connections published by the American Railway Review, New York. Township map of northern Missouri and parts of Kansas and Illinois showing rivers, place names, railroads, and the land grant to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. Profile of the railroad is shown across bottom of map. Chartered in 1847 and completed in 1859. Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901. . CREATED/PUBLISHED N[ew] Y[ork], c1860. Scale 1:1,267,200.

Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway & connections. Small sketch map showing drainage and the major cities and towns in the midwest. Includes railroad stations along a heavy distorted line representing the main railroad line in Missouri. This is an early example of the typical timetable map developed in the 1870's which was designed to place emphasis on specific routes. Thomas, G. F. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1863.

Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad. Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic], with proposed extension to Cleveland, Wooster, Sandusky, Toledo, Cincinnati; Michigan City, Chicago, Galena, Rock Island, St. Louis, &a; in connection with the public works of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Covers area between Massachusetts and Virginia and west to the Mississippi River. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads. A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at lower right of map. Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Railroad is part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 184-] Scale ca. 1:2,500,000.

Great Western and Lake Erie Railroad. Map of the proposed Great Western and Lake Erie Rail Road of Pennsylvania projected for the Sunbury Erie and Pittsburg [sic] Rail Road Convention by James Herron Civil Engineer. Physical map of Pennsylvania and parts of adjacent states showing drainage, relief by hachures, spot heights in feet, state boundaries, canals, cities and towns. Finished and proposed railroads with names of lines and mileages are indicated. Herron, James. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p.], 1847. Scale ca. 1:1,100,000.

Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company. Map of the Pittsburg [sic], Fort Wayne & Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburg [sic], Grand Rapids and Indiana, and Pennsylvania railroads. Map of the northeastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network with named lines. Emphasis on the main lines. Rand McNally and Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, c1874. Scale ca. 1:4,500,000.

Great Central Railway (U.S.). Map of the Great Central Railway Line of the west and connecting lines. Map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing some drainage, state boundaries, and place names along the railroad lines. Covers area between New York City and St. Louis, Mo. Schuchman, William, b. 1823 or 4. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Pitts[burgh], 1854. Scale ca. 1:1,400,000.

Great Central Railway (U.S.). International rail road guide of the Great Central Route. Shows railroad lines in the north-central and northeastern United States connecting with the Michigan Central and New York Central Railroads. Tunis, W. E. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Niagara Falls, N.Y., [1855?] Scale ca. 1:4,000,000.

Great Central Railway (U.S.). Map of the Great Central Route and its connections, the most central, attractive, direct and reliable thoroughfare between the eastern and western states. Outline map of the north-central and northeastern states indicating larger cities, county boundaries, and railroad network emphasizing the Michigan Central Railroad and the Great Western Railway. Inset: [View of] Mammoth suspension bridge over Niagara River in view of the falls. Noble, C. E., fl. 1856. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Buffalo, N.Y., c1856. Scale ca. 1:3,250,000.

Great Kennesaw Route. Map of the Great Kennesaw Route via Washington, Roanoke and, Knoxville. Map of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, and the railroad network with the named lines. Heavy black lines emphasize the main line. Matthews-Northrup Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Buffalo, 1890. Scale ca. 1:5,000,000.

Hillsborough and Cincinnati Railroad Company. Hillsborough & Cincinnati Rail-road map extending from Hillsborough, Highland Co. to the coal field at Jackson, Jackson Co. Ohio; as located in 1852 under the direction of Ellwood Morris, Chief Engr. N. F. Jones, Princ. Assist. Eng. Topographic strip map indicating drainage, relief by hachures, roads, houses, property owners names, and county names. This line was chartered in Ohio, March 2, 1846. It was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860. Jacobi, L. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1852] Scale 1:126,720.

Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company. Map showing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and its connections. Advertising map covering Michigan and vicinity. Shows drainage, cities and towns, railroad land grant, and the railroad network emphasizing the main line. Information on bond sale by Winslow, Lanier & Co., N.Y., on the verso. Under construction by Continental Improvement Company, George W. Cass, President. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1871. Scale ca. 1:4,000,000.

Georgia Railroad. The Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia Air Line; the Shenandoah Valley R.R.; Norfolk & Western R.R.; East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia R.R. (its leased lines,) and their connections. Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network emphasizing the main lines. Rand McNally and Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, 1882.

Gettysburg Railroad. Map and profile of the Gettysburg Rail Road as surveyed by order of the legislature of Pennsylvania, 1839. Survey map and profile of part of Pennsylvania and Maryland from Gettysburg to the Potomac River. Shows relief by hachures along the line, creeks, roads, cities and towns. Chartered on January 9, 1838; constructed December 1, 1858. Campbell, Henry R. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, 1839. Scale 1:80,000.

Georgia Railroad. Map showing the proposed Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia Railroad connecting and extending the Chattanooga Southern Railway, Marietta and North Georgia Railway, Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad, and Morristown and Cumberland Gap Railroad. Map of the southern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main lines. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York, 1892] Scale 1:1,275,000.

Georgia Railroad. Map showing the proposed Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia Railroad. Map of the southeastern states showing drainage, cities and towns, and railroads with relation to consolidation, and connections to other lines in the south. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, c1893. Scale 1:2,300,000.

Geneva and Hornellsville Railroad. Map showing the Geneva & Hornellsville Railroad and its connections. Map of western New York and part of Pennsylvania showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroads with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1875. Scale 1:570,240.

Georgia Railroad. A map of the Georgia Rail Road and the several lines of railroad connecting with it, Febr. 1839. Map of the southeastern United States indicating drainage, relief by hachures, place names, roads, canals in blue, Georgia Railroad in red, "R.R. completed & in progress" in yellow. "R.R. chartered & proposed" in brown. Probably made to accompany his Report of the Engineer in Chief, May 13, 1839. Created by Act of December 21, 1836. "The Georgia Rail-Road extends from Augusta Geo. The head of navigation on the Savannah River to the Western and Atlantic Rail-Road-which it joins--near Decatur. Length 165 miles. Length of W & A R.R. 130 miles-making the total distance from the navigable waters of the Atlantic to those of the Mississippi 295 miles.- The greatest rise on this route is 36 feet per mile and no satisfactory power required on the whole line." Thomson, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1808-1874. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Phila[delphia], [1839]

Fox River Valley Railroad. Fox River Valley R.R. in Wisconsin with its connections. Shows area of southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Indicates county boundaries, larger cities, and some drainage. The line was chartered in 1852 and constructed in 1854. Lipman & Riddle. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Milwaukee, [1857] Scale ca. 1:600,000.

Fredericksburg and Gordonsville Railroad. Map showing the Fredericksburg & Gordonsville Rail Road of Virginia, leading from Fredericksburg, via Orange C.H., to Charlottesville, where it connects with the Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. and the extension of the Orange & Alexandra R.R. to Lynchburg. Maps of the middle Atlantic states showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads, with emphasis on the main lines. Includes a list of distances for "Short Cut to Tide-Water..." Chartered March 1, 1853. Name changed in 1876 to the Potomac, Fredericksburg, and Piedmonth Railroad. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1869. Scale 1:760,320.

Florida Railroad Company. Sketch map of northeastern Florida showing the Florida Railroad and proposed connections Jan. 1860. Koerner, P. W. Oscar. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.], 1860. Scale 1:360,000.

Florida Transit and Peninsula Railroad. Maps showing the Florida Transit and Peninsula Rail Road and its connections. Maps of southern United States. Main map covers Floria and vicinity and indicates drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, railroads, and the land grant in central Florida. General map shows connections to southern and Gulf states. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1882. Scale 1:1,140,000 and 1:3,800,000.

Fort Scott, Topeka, and Lincoln Railroad. Colton's map of the United States showing the route & connections of the Fort Scott, Topeka & Lincoln R.R. Map of the eastern half of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, railroads with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1883. Scale 1:3,168,000.

Fitchburg Railroad. Map of rail road surveys from Worcester to Baldwinville & N.H. line. Map of northern half of Worcester County, Mass., showing drainage, cities, and townships. Shows beginning of survey north of Worcester and the survey for part of the Winchendon branch of the Fitchburg Railroad. Bouv�, Elisha W. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1845] Scale ca. 1:180,000.

Fitchburg Railroad. Plan showing the proposed entrance into Boston of the Fitchburg Rail Road. Street map of part of Boston showing the railroad yards and the passenger depot. Chartered on March 3, 1842. At the upper right of the plan is the "Proposed Plan of Depot of Granite. Front View on Causeway Street." Bouv�, Elisha W. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 184-] Scale 1:24,000.

Eastern Kentucky Railroad. Map showing the Consolidated Southern Railway, Kentucky Division--Eastern Kentucky R.R. Virginia Division--Norfolk & Cincinnati R.R. Tennessee & Carolina Division and its connections. Map of the southeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, county boundaries, the railroad network, and mineral deposits. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1883. Scale 1:2,217,600.

East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad Company. The Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia Air Line; the Shenandoah Valley R.R.; Norfolk & Western R.R.; East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia R.R. (its leased lines,) and their connections. Map of the eastern United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network emphasizing the main lines. Rand McNally and Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, 1882.

Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. Denver and Rio Grande Railway System, 1886. Map of Colorado and part of New Mexico showing relief by hachures and shading, drainage, cities and towns, counties, stage roads, and railroads with the main line emphasized. Inset: [U.S. southwest] Rand McNally and Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago, 1886]

Duluth and Winnipeg Railway Company. Map showing the route of the Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad and its connections. p shows the north-central states with drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network indicated. Emphasizes the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1881. Scale 1:2,217,600.

Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and connections. Map of western Colorado and New Mexico showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, mineral areas, roads, and railroads. Includes completed and proposed lines. General information for tourists on verso. Mota, Alb von. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1873] Scale ca. 1:1,900,800.

Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. Map of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, showing its connections and extensions also the relative position of Denver and Pueblo to all the principal towns and mining regions of Colorado and New Mexico. Outline map of Colorado and New Mexico showing major relief by hachures, major drainage, cities and towns, and county boundaries. Main lines are indicated by heavy colored lines. Eccles, S. W. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, c1881. Scale 1:760,320.

Delaware and North River Railroad. Map showing the Delaware and North River Railroad and its connections between Kingston, Port Jarvis and Stroudsburg. Map of the northeastern states showing drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, c1890. Scale ca. 1:1,250,000.

Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company. Plan and profile of the Danville and Pottsville Rail Road. Detailed map of part of Pennsylvania between Sharp Mountain and the Susquehanna River showing roads, drainage, and relief by hachures along the survey route. Shows the east and west branches of the Mount Carbon Railroad and the Mill Creek Railroad, which began operation in 1829. Chartered on April 8, 1826. Name changed in 1851 to the Philadelphia and Sunbury Rail Road. Kennedy, David K. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, 1831. Scale ca. 1:85,000.

Danville, Urbana, Bloomington, and Pekin Railroad. Maps showing the Danville, Urbana, Bloomington & Pekin Railroad and its connections. Map of the midwestern states shows drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroads with emphasis on the main line and mileage between stations. General map shows transcontinental railroad connections. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1869. Scale 1:1,250,000 and ca. 1:7,500,000.

Danville, Olney, and Ohio River Railroad. Map of the Danville, Olney & Ohio River Railroad and its connections. Map of the north-central states showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, coal fields in Illinois, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1881. Scale 1:1,267,200.

Hudson River Railroad. New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. Outline map of the northeastern United States showing major drainage, cities and towns, with named railroads distinguished by color. Matthews-Northrup Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p.], 1900. Scale ca. 1:2,300,000.

Illinois Central Railroad Company. A map of a part of the southern & western states showing the contemplated route of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad and the Central Railroad of Illinois, also the route of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad representing the most central, direct and practicable route for a great national and commercial highway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Northern Lakes, and by various branches and intersections with other Railways connecting with all the principal cities of the United States. The map covers an area from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi delta, and from Columbus, Ohio, to Little Rock, Ark. It shows Ft. Massac and "Capitol City" in southern Illinois and northern Kentucky as sites selected by the U.S. for the "Western Armory," and the probable future site for the seat of government of the United States or Western District of Columbia. Chartered January 9, 1852. McBean, William. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New Orleans, 1850. Scale ca. 1:15,000,000.

Illinois Central Railroad Company. Map of Illinois Central R.R. U.S. central states from Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico, showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, roads and railroads. Principal north-south line, chartered in 1850 and incorporated in 1851. 706 miles opened for traffic in 1856. First railroad to receive lands granted by the passage of the "Illinois Central Land Grant Bill." Rand McNally and Company. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago, 1892] Scale ca. 1:2,700,000.

Indiana and Illinois Central Railway Company. Map showing the Indiana & Illinois Central Railway and its connections. Shows north-central United States and includes drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. Chartered January 1, 1853. Completed in 1873. Became part of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Western Railway. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1872. Scale 1:1,267,200.

Indiana, Bloomington, and Western Railway. The Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway System. Map of the north-central United States showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1881. Scale 1:1,267,200.

Indianapolis and Peru Railroad Company. Map of Peru and Indianapolis Rail Road with connections. Outline map with colored state boundaries of the northeastern and north-central United States indicating larger cities. Shows "finished," "in progress of construction," and "contemplated" railroads. Chartered in 1846 with first section opened in 1851. Leefe, George E. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 185-] Scale ca. 1:2,100,000.

Iowa Railroad. Map showing location of lands belonging to the Iowa Rail Road Land Company Iowa Falls, and Sioux City R.R. Land Company Sioux City, and Pacific Land Company & Elkhorn Land Company, J. T. McAlvin, Del. I.R.R. Land Department, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1871. Map of the midwestern states showing drainage, township and counties, land grants, railroads with named lines. Includes geographical description and advertising. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1871. Scale 1:1,250,000.

Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad. Map showing the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad and its connections. Map of the Great Lakes area showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network with emphasis on the main line. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1867. Scale 1:1,267,200.

Jacksonville, Northwestern & Southeastern Railway Company. Map showing the Jacksonville North Western and South Eastern Railway and its connections. Map of Illinois, Indiana, and parts of adjacent states showing drainage, stations, and the railroad network. Watson, Gaylord. . CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, [185-] Scale 1:1,050,000.