Transit Maps: railroad

Historical Map: Argentine Railways, 1907

January 17, 2023

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1907, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires & Pacific Railroad Company, cartography, La Plata, map, Montevideo, railroad, railway map, Rosario, Santiago, South America, Valparaiso

Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love the way that brown is used for mountainous features, and a light blue is used for water features – it allows this information to be visible, but it doesn’t compete with the overlaid railroad lines. The map is packed with other information as well – note the three rail gauges in use in Argentina at the […]

Project: American Class I Railroad Heralds, 1959

December 21, 2014

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1959, Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, graphic design, history, logo, Long Island Rail Road, poster, railroad, Union Pacific, USA, vintage

I found a 1959 map showing Class I railroads in the USA and Canada. The map was beautiful, but what really struck me was the border, which had the logos of the railroad companies featured on the map. It's not often that you get to see so many contemporaneous historical logos from the same industry, so I cleaned them up in Photoshop to make this poster that showcases them.