Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Unique RPC mailed from Independence to Alameda. Message reads: "This is the silver spike that marked the completion of the "New Road"...

Lot of four checks and one receipt. The checks are all Sather & Co., San Francisco, RN-G, 1877-83, made payable to Central Pacific. The receipt ...

A description of the route, the progress and the character of the work, its resources, and business prospects, with the foundation and advantages of i

c. 1870s. Central Pacific Railroad. Profile View Cape Horn. Illustrated by C.R. Savage. View of bend in track alongside steep drop-off. Reverse: Photo

California Edition. Map of Central Pacific Railroad surrounded by 24 beautiful lithographs of California and Nevada Scenes along Transcontinental Rout

For our proportion of wages paid conductor and brakeman in joint services month of November 1899. 8.5 x 7". City: Randsburg State: Ca

1) Seven Daily Telegraphic Register of Trains time sheets, 17" x 26.5", c.1914, Jamestown. 2) Six different time tables: Sierra Railway: N...

Lot of 8 different railroad pamphlets for Lake Tahoe, including very early. Most have photographs and maps. 1) 1902 brochure, California Resorts, with

Booklet by A. J. Wells titled" The Sacramento Valley of California" published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 1980. The booklet (6.5...

Booklet titled "California, San Joaquin Valley" by A. J. Wells, published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1908. The booklet (6.5&q...

Small tourist booklet on California Fishing published by Southern Pacific Railroad. Great little booklet (6.5" x 4.5") with articles, phot...

Booklet by One of the Eaters titled "Eat California Fruit" published by southern Pacific Railroad Company. The booklet (6.5" x 4.5&qu...

Booklet titled "Imperial Valley California" published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1908. The booklet (6.5" x 4.5") d...

California map published by Southern Pacific Railroad with descriptions of resources, attractions topography and climate. map folds out to 27" ...

Southern Pacific Key #47; Railroad map of the United States for men in uniform by SP RR; SP Co. Passenger Department receipt; expense bill from Marysv

Booklet titled "The Inside Track, the Way through the Wonderful Fruit and flower Garden of Southern California" published by Southern Paci...

Booklet titled "Wayside Notes on the Sunset Route" published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 1908. Booklet (6.5" x 4.5") s...

Photo album from the early 1900's depicting the building of Western Pacific railroad through northern California. Many great photos of camps, br...

Approximately 500 Western Pacific Railway Company original freight bills dated 1910-1912. City: State: California, Date: 1910

Lot of 27 items. Includes: an issued 1905 $100 gold bond for the Yosemite Short Line Railway Co. (w/ 72 coupons still attached); 14 c.1940s photograp

Lot of 4. 1) A 1905 $100 Gold Bond for the Yosemite Short Line Railway Company. No. 5043, uncancelled. Vignette of train with "Y.S.L" on t...

Booklet by A. J. Wells titled "the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees of California" published by Southern Pacific railro...

Includes: small photograph of man (unidentified) on back of train car giving speech; brochure advertising Balloon Route excursion; subscription receip

Over 100 items of Southern California railway ephemera. Includes 1 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen traveling card, dated 1912; 4 Pullman Car Service

Lot of 100. Includes: large stack of pictorial California Street Cable Railroad Co. (1890s); Bakersfield & Kern Electric Railway Co. (1940s); Si...

Time schedule, Principal Terminal Depots, Oakland, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Cruz; expense bill to Sacramento Valley RR; Sierra Railway Co. of Califo

Two certificates of The Atlantic=Pacific Railway Tunnel Co. One unissued, one issued to Nikolas Felz. City: Denver State: Colorado,

Lot of five. 1-2) Thru the Rockies. 20 pages. All photos. Two different back pages - two different editions. 3) Heart of the Rockies. Raised gold lett

Annual report extras: fifteen 1900, 01, 03, 04, 05, 08, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 22, 44, and 46. For a more complete description see other C&S an...

Lot of thirty-four with no duplicates. Includes Numbers 1-16, 18-22, 23-26, 34, 36, 38, 40-41, 45-48, and 1953. It would take a lifetime collecting th

16 full color illustrations of St. Peter's Dome, Broadmoor, Silver Cascades, Cheyenne Canon, Observation Point, Cathedral Spires, etc. All are r...

Lot of 4 items. 1) Summit of Pike's Peak Via The Cog Road. J.G. Hiestand, Publisher. Red softcover, stapled binding. 11 black and white photogra...

Lot of 25 checks and receipts for railroads into and out of Cripple Creek. Includes: five paychecks (1914-1915) for the Florence and Cripple Creek Rai

Lot of four. 1) 1899 contract between the Canon City & Cripple Creek RR, Florence & Cripple Creek RR, and Golden Circle RR. 6 pages. 2) The...

This booklet (6.25" x 6"), A Chain of Gold Cities in the Cripple Creek District: Cripple Creek, Victor, Anaconda, Elkton, Portland, Indepe...

1)"Colorado Springs, Manitou, Denver and Cripple Creek best reached via Missouri Pacific Railway System" 18 pages. 8 1/2" x 6". ...

As Denver grew, this station shrunk. Through fire and reconstruction, it does not look like this today, although the guts of this building still remai

Seven different. 1) "Across the Continent by the Scenic Route: Colorado, Utah, & New Mexico via the Denver & Rio Grande Railway." ...

Railroad Red Book of the West. Official Guide and Time Tables. Handbook and Guide for Travelers.August, 1897 (10" x 7") 84 pp.; October, 1...

Annual Reports to the Stockholders of the Denver and Rio Grande, Co. for years 1882, Printed by William Mann & Son, Railroad Stationers and Prin...

Fascinating metal device that lists all stations on Denver and Rio Grande Railroad on rolling cloth with covers to show or block station names. Device

Group of annual reports from 1927 (1st Annual) - 1946 (20th annual). Softcover, approximately 25 pages, includes income statements, profit and loss ac

Group of 6 reports from 1927 (1st Annual), 1940, 1941 (2), 1942, 1946. Softcover, approximately 25 pages, includes income statements, profit and loss

With the Mercantile Trust Company. Property of White & Kemble. 5 pages. Possibly only one known. City: State: Colorado, Date:

Narrow Gauge from Leavenworth, Kansas to Denver, Colorado. 19 pages with a killer map! This ill-starred branch began its colorful career in 1871. For

Lot of three all presented by the Kansas Pacific Railway. 1) Colorado Resorts and Attraction to the Pleasure-Seeker, tourist and Invalid. 28 pages. Ne

1) 1868 Second Annual Report to the Board of Directors. 32 pages. 2) Argument submitted on behalf of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co. before the Secreta

By General William J. Palmer. The railroad wanted to expand to San Francisco and San Diego. 250 pages, Map has been torn out. Covers missing., Very Sc

Two nice mounted cabinet photos circa 1902 by J.G. Hiestand, the railway's official photographer. First photo show a group at the summit, at 14,...

Four different cabinet cards. Includes: "377. First Passenger Trains on Pike's Peak. Season of 1892" (train, crowd and brick building)...