Track Map Offering #33

November 2008

Once again, the ERA is making excess inventory in the Sprague Library available for sale to members. These rare items were filed away years, forgotten, until now. Enhance your personal collection by purchasing them for your own use.

No transportation enthusiast will want to be without these unusual items in their own libraries. We are proud to offer this package for only $30 including shipping to anywhere in the U.S., or $37 for Canada and all other countries. Don’t be disappointed; fill out the Special Offering Order Form (link below) and send it to us with a check or money order. No cash, please. The following list is a description of the materials being offered:

  1. A route map of the Louisville and Interurban Railroad, showing all seven electrified lines and their connecting interurban railways. Six of the seven lines were of five-foot gauge, the same as the Louisville Railway. The Prospect line was of standard gauge. See story below. 8.5 x 11 inches. Fantastic.
  2. A route map of the Louisville, Harrod’s Creek and Westport Railway. This 11.16-mile line was built as a narrow gauge railroad on March 1, 1873 between Louisville and Prospect, Kentucky. In 1887–88 it was converted to standard gauge and operated by the Louisville and Nashville RR. The line was sold to the Louisville and Interurban Railroad and electrified on October 15, 1904. Trolleys ran through the city system into downtown Louisville for 2.7 miles. Freight service was discontinued by the L & N on March 19, 1929 and all passenger trolleys stopped running on the Prospect line on October 31, 1935. Very, very rare.
  3. A track diagram of the last remaining trolley lines in Louisville, Ky. as of October 1946. All trackage, abandoned service and car house details are shown. 8.5 x 11 inches. Great.
  4. An August 1929 route map of the trolley and bus lines running in Lexington, Ky. 8.5 x 11 inches. Quite enjoyable.
  5. A route map of the Paducah Traction Company trolley lines as of 1912. Eight lines are featured serving all parts of this city of 22,780 inhabitants. 8.5 x 11 inches. A wonderful find.
  6. A Souvenir Brochure of the April 30, 1977 AB-Type fantrip run on NYCT’s BMT and IND Division, mostly on the Eastern Section. Included is a copy of the General Order, an article reproduced entitled “Build More Transit Lines” by BMT Corp. president Gerhard M. Dahl. This 8-page article is a presentation to John H. Delaney describing the need for new rapid transit routes. Also there are sheets of the General Signal Arrangements for the East New York station complex, East New York Yard, Rockaway Parkway Yard and the 14th Street line in Manhattan. There is also an AB-Type Car Data Sheet. WOW!

WWW ERA ONLINE