Description:
Railroad Lot, Four Titles in Six Volumes.
Including: Philip Dawson's Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation, a Practical Handbook, London: offices of engineering; and New York: Wiley & Sons, 1897; Corporate History of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, 1917, with maps inside the back board and associated documents, receipts and letters; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Documentary History, 1928, in four volumes; [and] Richard C. Overton's Burlington Route, New York: Knopf, 1965, first edition, with the original dust jacket, signed by twenty employees of Burlington Truck Lines, including president, Yale James, and others. (6)
Estimate $300-500
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Philip Dawson, Yale James, Chicago, LondonJohn Dorfman
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