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Maps showing the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections.

G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, 1875.

SUMMARY
Main map shows western states and includes relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, township and ranges, counties, railroads, and proposed railroads. General map, at top of sheet, covers the United States and shows the railroad network. First section, the Central Pacific linked California with Ogden, Utah, in 1869. The merging of the Central with the Southern Pacific was the inspiration of Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.

NOTES
Scale 1:2,090,880 and ca. 1:8,000,000.

Reference: LC Railroad maps, 567

Description derived from published bibliography.

SUBJECTS
Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Maps.
Railroads--Southwest, New--Maps.
United States--Southwest, New.

RELATED NAMES
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

MEDIUM
col. map 2 maps on one sheet 76 x 60 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G4301.P3 1875 .G15 RR 567

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g4301p rr005670 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4301p.rr005670

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