Extent of Digitized Railroad
Extent of Digitized Railroad
Authors: Chester Harvey, Evgenia Shnayder, John Watson, Killeen Hanson, Erik Steiner, and Richard White
This map shows the extent of railroad network that has been traced from the historic USGS quads (pre-1915) for the Shaping the West project. The color coding identifies the different railroad branches and who owned them.See it Fullscreen.
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California Railroad Commission,
Station Construction Data, 1850-1900
Station Construction Data, 1850-1900
The Expansion of the Western Railroad
Quad Index
Seeing Space in Terms of Track Length and Cost of Shipping
Railroad Repeats: The Alfred A. Hart Photo Project
The Central Pacific and Transcontinental Eleven Step:
How to Run a Transcontinental Railroad
How to Run a Transcontinental Railroad
Examples of Digitizing Rail from Historic USGS Quads
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