Last modified January 8, 2010
11877 Rand McNally & Company Rand McNally & Company's New Large Scale Indexed Railroad Statistical and Commercial Map of Colorado Rand McNally & Company 1910 No Hardback 2 Poor to fair. The front cover has soiling and a name in crayon? The map has numerous, extensive tears along the folds. It is complete and without major chipping. A 1910 41 x 43 inch fold-out map of the State of Colorado. Town names are listed on the back side. Colorado, Railroad, Map, ephemera, Americana $50
| Vendor SKU | Author | Title | Publisher | Condition | Description | Keywords(s) | Price | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1359 | Bogen, Stephen and Marvin H. Cohen | Steam Passenger Service Directory Including Electric Lines and Museums | Empire State Railway Musem 1885 paperback with 200 pages, many interesting pictures. | Good with some shelf wear. | Railroad | Railroad | $8 | |
| 6948 | Doane, Francis H. | Electric Railway Engineering | International Textbook Company 1928 with 287 illustrations | Good. Soiling and shelf wear, moisture marks bottom edges of the pages. No dust wrapper. | Railroad, Electric Railroad | Railroad, Electric Railroad | $30 | |
| 10450 | Great Northern Railway Company | Great Northern Railway Company Circular No. 8815 Announcing Hotel and Transportation Rates and Arrangements in Glacier National Park Season June 15th to September 15th 1922 | Great Northern Railway Company | Very good. The staples are rusty. | 1922 paperback, 8 x 11 inches, with 15 pages, green-toned pictures and a map of the Great Northern routes on the back cover. | Great Northern Railway Company, railroad, Glacier National Park, montana | $30 |  |
| 9209 | Great Western Railway | Place of Pilgrimage for American Travellers The Travel-Shrines of the West and How Best to Visit them | Great Western Railway company Paddington Station London | Fair to good. Covers worn and torn on the edges. Small library stamp on the front cover. Tipped in map in back has been removed. | 1925 3rd edition small paperback with 43 pages and illustrations. | Great Western Railway company, railroad | $15 | |
| 9827 | International Textbook Company Staff | International Library of Technology 136 Electric Railway Systems Electric-Railway Line Construction Track Construction Electric-Railway Calculations Railway Motors | International Textbook Company | Good with shelf wear. No dust wrapper. | 1922 hardback with numerous illustrations, diagrams and an index. Electric Railway, Railroad.... | Electric Railway, Railroad | $40 |  |
| 9621 | Moseley, Edward A., Secretary | Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission December 21, 1909 | Government Printing Office 1909 with 338 pages and an index. | Good. Top and bottom of the spine have shelf wear. Edges of covers show some shelf wear. Light shelf wear on covers. No dust wrapper. | Interstate Commerce Commission, Railroad cases, etc. | Interstate Commerce Commission, Railroads | $18 | |
| 8495 | Olah, Dan | Rails Around The Sound A Railfan's Guide to the Puget Sound Area | Northwest Images 1986 slender, stapeled paperback with 20 pages, photos and a map. | Good with light shelf wear. | Pacific Northwest, Washington State, Railroad, Railway | Pacific Northwest, Washington State, Railroad, Railway | $10 | |
| 11462 | Pinkerton, Joan Trego | Knights of the Broadax The Story of the Wyoming Tie Hacks | The Caxton Printers, Ltd. | Very good. | Wyoming Railroad history of tie hacks, wood workers who cut ties for the Railroad. There are many b&w photos. | Western Americana, Railroads, Trains, Wyoming | $40 |  |
| 11877 | Rand McNally & Company | Rand McNally & Company's New Large Scale Indexed Railroad Statistical and Commercial Map of Colorado | Rand McNally & Company | Poor to fair. The front cover has soiling and a name in crayon? The map has numerous, extensive tears along the folds. It is complete and without major chipping. | A 1910 41 x 43 inch fold-out map of the State of Colorado. Town names are listed on the back side. | Colorado, Railroad, Map, ephemera, Americana | $50 |  |
| 10449 | Rinehart, Mary Roberts | Glacier National Park | Great Northern Railway Company | Good. Light soiling on the covers. Light creasing on the pages, staples are rusty. There is a two inch tear at the bottom of the spine that affects both the front and back cover. | Circa 1920's stapled paperback, 8.5 X 12 inches, with 30 green-toned pages and an introduction by Mary Roberts Rinehart. A Great Northern Railway Company travel promotion. | Railroad, Montana, Great Northern Railway, Glacier National Park | $40 |  |
| 9530 | Wood, Charles R. | The Northern Pacific Main Street of the Northwest | Superior Publishing Company | Good. Light soiling and shelfwear. No dust wrapper. | 1968 hardback 8.5 X 10.5 inches with 208 pages and b&w photos. Pacific Northwest, Railroading, business history, corporate history, Northern Pacific. | Pacific Northwest, Railroading, business history, corporate history, Northern Pacific | $14 |
"...Postmark, headers and eating utensils are in my pie box. Pouch records are in my trip report book which is also in my pie box. My pie box is the green one at the depot."
The pie box is in poor shape, missing part of the front door. It also has rotten corner in the back.
Beside the box and documenting letter there are a lot of forms, some correspondence, hand-drawn lay-outs of the inside of the car with town names, labels, tags and other items.
U.S.P.O Regestered Jackets of two sizes
There are three letters from the Railway Post Office to Jaten
Tags:
Bad Order (orange/pink)
Envelopes:
Small sized Railroad Mail Service Official Business
Three envelopes (quite grubby) with "round" (hand ) stamps:
One each from Harlem, Havre, and Glacier Park, Montana, all in the 40's.
Letters from Jaten to his superiors on Rainbow Hotel, Shelby, Montana stationery. One of which the superintendent has returned to Jaten, stamped with his railroad mail service stamp.
$150 for all
Form # 5258 (1934) Report of Riffled Parcel Post
Form # 5049 (April 1941 Report of Mail Found in Supposedly Empty Equipment (!!!!)
Form # 5367 (March 1947) Notice of Insanitary or Other Unsanitary Condition of Postal Car Railway Mail Service
Form # 3853 1944 Registers
Form # 0-19 Report showing Count Of Mails In R.P.O. Car No.__ As Recieved From St. Paul & Williston ND Train 27
Form # 5012 Trip Reports
Form # 5374 Report of Light Failure Railway Mail Service 1924 (gas lights and candles are mentioned)
Form # 5257 Report of Damaged Parcel Post
Form # 5013 1935 Mail Found Without Address Railway Mail Service
Form # 5104 1939 Application for Sick Leave Railway Mail Service
Perishable (tan)
Parcel Post for Special Handling (yellow)
Waste (white)