Available online from Hathi Trust External
This is a written account of the Library's holding that may offer additional perspective.

Geography and Map Division
The selections chosen for inclusion in the accompanying digital collection Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900 were based on Railroad maps of the United States. Includes progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps and route guides by individual firms which help document the development of U.S. industry and agriculture.

This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. Railroads and the Making of Modern America seeks to use the digital medium to investigate, represent, and analyze this social change and document episodes of the railroad's social consequence.

"This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. The railroad was the first and most complex national system in American history. The records of this system's colossal growth are as diverse as they are voluminous, ranging from massive and detailed corporate records to editorials, cartoons, poetry, songs, and even abandoned track lines in today's landscape. While many histories have addressed the railroad's importance, we need a new approach that takes account of how the railroad triggered unexpected outcomes in American society and how the system became wedded into the fabric of modern America. Railroads and the Making of Modern America seeks to use the digital medium to investigate, represent, and analyze this social change and document episodes of the railroad's social consequence. Over the coming months the project team will add documents and visual materials on key subject areas we are currently investigating. These include:the development of slavery around railroad growth in the South and of free labor on railroads elsewhere, the migration and settlement of railroad lands, and the political opposition to railroads around rates. For each the emphasis of the research will be to create interpretive visualizations and to explore and represent the ways railroads changed understandings of space and time. As a part of our larger initiative, we hope to have the input of railroad history experts to develop an open-source, accurate, base historical GIS of the growth of the North American railroad network over time. This challenge calls for far-reaching collaboration and we will open a part of the site for contribution to this aspect of the project. Much of this site is and will be a "work in progress." Our intent is to develop materials that are useful for our research purposes and for teaching American history in both the U.S. survey course and other more specialized courses on the 19th century. We will be reindexing, proofing, correcting, and editing documents as we go, so we hope that our readers will bear with us as we add to and refine our work. The goal here is not to produce a documentary editing project but a research and teaching platform to test hypotheses and create visualizations of complex processes. As a whole, this project aims to collect and make available a wide array of materials to shed light on the ways Americans experienced the railroads in the nineteenth century. The intent for this project is not to develop corporate histories of the railroads, which have been done very well elsewhere, but instead to capture and represent the social history of the railroad and its role in American history. These larger aims will guide the selection process of topics and materials."--

This is related to Dataset of the 1840-1845-1850-1861-1870 Railroad System in America, State and National Shapefiles and Dataset of the 1861 railroad system in America.

Table of contents
Publisher description
First published in 1999

The Geography and Map Division holds thousands of maps and atlases relating to railroads, subways, and other train lines. This guide is meant to assist researchers with locating relevant material held in the Library's collection.

Holdings 1879-1901
Each year is 2 volumes and includes a number of advertisements mostly from hotels. There are few city maps but there are descriptions of destinations, but also information on different routes to destinations and a table of railway and steamboat fares. Appleton's also produced the Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American winter resorts (E158 .A71) and Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American Summer resorts that published from the late 1870s to about 1900 depending on that title. They listed resorts by place with some information on the resort as well as how to get there.

The print is for the year 1855 but there are two copies on Microfiche: Microfilm 07439 HE and 07454 (1855). We do have an issue from 1896 under a different call number HE2727.T77. Copies of Appleton's from 1867 and 1859 are available on HathiTrust while one from 1864 can be found on GoogleBook

ndex to Tariffs and Condensed Local tariffs sections are by company/line. Division Notes is by company/line and contains notes, changes, etc affecting tariffs and lines. Library has 1886 - 1912 but it is not totally complete.

Available online from the Internet Archive External
This is a travelers aide. Most of the title are by state and include a map with routs/distances as well as list of hotels. There is also a classification by businesspeople. These were the maps used in the Dun & Bradstreet title Reference Book of American Business.
See also Gibb's travelers' route and reference book of the United States and Canada.

Like other guides this lists by railroad lines.

See also microfilm collections
Some volumes via Hathi Trust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000046063 External
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007328570 External
Some digitized from: 1874-1908 External
Holdings: 1878 to 1969 (with a break for the late 1920's to 1950) and it is picked up by "The Official Railway Guide."
There are lots of useful bits in this title. There are many advertisements, the annual calendar, the names and addresses of the general ticket and passenger offices by line. The section on "General Railway Information" includes some general news on the industry since the last publication, changes on officers of companies, etc. Many lines often include a map of their system as well as times of arrival by station of trains (with mention if it is mail, special, express line). Sometimes there is a mention of miles and other line specific notes as well as connections to other lines. If there are branches of the line the travel information for those is noted as well. Some companies even provide officer information as well. Those stations that have telegraphs are noted as well. There is also in index of railway stations as well as list of old and new names of roads.
There is limited information related to international steamship lines.
Beginning by at least 1952 and lasting through 1969, there is limited on the airlines. Most general and in terms of who was flyiig where,
Sometimes seen as Travellers' official railway guide for the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Holdings: 1974 to 1988
This is the North American passenger travel edition and continues the "Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba." Much of the data is the same but it is not quite as detailed. Now part of a larger online product at https://www.pocketlist.com/.

Holdings: 1913 to 1952
These operate much like the titles covering passenger travel.

Holdings: 1980-2010
These are for railroad line around the world including the United States.

This is also seen as the Official guide of the railways and steam navigation lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
Digital versions are available at the Library of Congress via STACKS.

Contains a listing by state of the railroads with officers and conductors names. There is a section on Recapitulation by state with the names, from/to locations, miles (with completed, in progress, total, in the state, total).