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Fine folding lithographed pocket map printed on pink paper (20 x 30inches), with an inset of the Western States and Territories (one or two separations at folds). A fine folding map and timetable for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad system, The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, the official name of the Burlington Route, "started from humble beginnings February 12, 1849 in Aurora, Illinois. On September 2, 1850, the first train chugged its uncertain way over six miles from Batavia, Illinois, north to Turner Junction, and then eastward to Chicago over the tracks of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad.The Burlington, as it came to be known, completed its own line from Aurora to Chicago in 1864, and the following year had the distinction of operating the first train into the newly-opened Union Stock Yards.The railroad across Iowa was the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, incorporated in Burlington in 1852. Operations began over the first few miles of track on New Year's Day, 1856. The road reached Ottumwa by 1857, through Murray in the fall of 1858 and was completed to the Missouri River in November 1869. The trains of that day were pulled by small, wood-burning locomotives, only capable of pulling a dozen or so cars. The passenger cars were built of wood and were not very comfortable for the traveler. In 1868 the CB&Q completed bridges over the Mississippi both at Burlington and Quincy, giving the railroad through connections with the B&MR in Iowa and the Hannibal & St, Joseph Railroad in Missouri" (Burlington Route Historical society online). This is a large map showing the route and connecting lines centered on Chicago, extending to Bangor and Quebec and westward to Denver and south to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Galveston. Each railroad is named with hundreds of rail stations located. At lower right is the large "Map of the Western States and Territories" which extends to Olympia, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Fort Yuma. Extensive timetable on the verso of the map, also advertisements for Sleeping Cars by the Pullman Company, information for Emigrants, etc. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 72map134
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