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About these pages

One page for every company in the books

Every railway or railroad company named in a book has a page of its own here, 644 of them so far, from short local lines to the Union Pacific. Each page gathers the reports, acts, timetables and pamphlets that belong to that company, oldest first.

Some companies can be followed year by year. The Michigan Central and the Baltimore and Ohio have the longest runs of books on the site, followed by the Grand Trunk of Canada, the Raleigh and Gaston and the Pennsylvania. Several of the North Carolina roads have a shelf each, and Britain is here through the Newcastle and Carlisle and the lines round Manchester and Liverpool that Bradshaw mapped in 1839.

The books spell a company’s name several ways, Rail Road, Rail-road and Railroad, with or without the word Company, and its page brings them together under the name most of its books use.