Board of Railroad Commissioners drawings

Collection REC0017 - RG 055. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)

This collection consists of a volume entitled, Drawings of Maps, Bridges, Profiles, Coal Burning Locomotives, Chairs, Brakes, Splices, and etc., accompanying the Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for 1856. The volumes consists of 65 plates (most gate-folded) of maps of the State and City of New York showing routes of railroads and drawings of truss, suspension, trestle and draw bridges. Additional subjects include the Long Island Rail Road, New York Central Railroad and other railroad locomotives, sections of rail, railroad tunnels and railroad line profile maps.
Extent

1 cubic feet (92 drawings)

Dates

1856