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.

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Publisher description
First published in 1999

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.

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. 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).