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Posted 15 months, 12 days ago
jackielou
(5 items)
I am looking for more information about a Rand McNally 1901 Railroad Map of the continental United States.
It measures 44"wide x 38"high and shows all the rail lines at that time.
What I have been told is that this map was a "throw away" and that is probably why I can not find anything like it.
I found it in the garage and it wasn't in very good condition. Yes, only my grandparents would have hung on to it. But, I couldn't just dump it after it had survived this long. Is there any value to it?
AR8Jason, do you know anything about this sort of thing?
Does this show the lines of one Rail Road or all the small lines as well?
If it has all the small railroads ...
To ship anything very far required Rail Road shipping. Trucks were "new" and roads were ruts. A map of this kind would have been used by shippers to plan the movement of shipments. Some of the bigger railroads put out their own maps for their shipping departments and agents.
Some railroads were very small enterprises, (there were even small gage railroads in the early days) and they could not afford to commission maps so this would have been ideal for them. As important for their day as Road Maps of the 1960s and Google Maps today.
These are collected and as it has nice color and deals with railroads, would attract the desire of RR collector as well as a map collector. Note that it has Canada and Mexico on it as well.
Obscure lines may be shown and valuable information to a collector of RR.
All donations are appreciated, especially this one.
Framing would be a bit expensive, but at a RR show, it would be the envy of the party I would guess and in a RRs home, he could desire little better.
Thank you so much, AR8Jason. You really came through with a wealth of information. It's the background that the map was missing.