Transit Maps: Popular Mechanics

Submission – Cutaway Diagram of the Paris Métro’s Opéra Station, 1910

March 9, 2017

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Submitted by thesandpeople100, who says: Cutaway diagram of the Paris Metro’s Opera station. I came across this working on a project for a hypothetical addition to Palais Garnier but couldn’t find any information on its origin. Any ideas? Transit Maps says: A reverse image search on Google found the answer to this pretty quickly: this beautiful cutaway appeared in the July 1910 issue of Popular Mechanics. Unfortunately, this month isn’t available in Google Books’ archive of […]

Historical Map/Photo: Installing an Enormous Northern Pacific RR Map, 1917

April 3, 2014

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1917, Minnesota, Montana, Northern Pacific, NPRR, Oregon, passenger rail, photo, Popular Mechanics, rail map, St. Paul, Washington, Wyoming

A fantastic photo that shows a huge map being installed through a window at the Northern Pacific offices in St. Paul, Minnesota. The short article that accompanied the photo when it was first published in Popular Mechanics in February 1917 says: A railway map of enormous size was recently installed in the immigration department of the Northern Pacific Railway offices in St. Paul. It measures 69 ft. long and 11 ft. wide and required the […]