Delaware & Hudson Railroad Straight Line Maps [In progress]

The collection consists of three little booklets from the Office of the Chief Engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation detailing the railroad properties of the Pennsylvania Division Main Line including the WilkesBarre Connecting Railroad [a “paper railroad” jointly owned by the Delaware & Hudson R.R. and the Pennsylvania Railroad to facilitate interchange traffic between the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Buttonwood Yard and the Delaware & Hudson at the Hudson Yard], Plymouth Branch, Buttonwood Branch, Branch No. 3 and No. 5; the Susquehanna Division including the Saratoga Branch and Cooperstown Branch; and Champlain Division including the Baldwin Branch, Ticonderoga Branch and Ausable Forks Branch, up to Montreal, Canada. Apparently the large railroad map blueprints were pieced together into straight line maps, “stitched” together and folded like an accordian into a booklet size to fit a railroad inspector’s coat pocket. This is apparent in the form of reproducing the maps from their original format into an easy usable form. Many of the maps that are in the little pocket booklets show a form of reproducing these maps from a larger format - examples being photographing of folded corners, blurred images and mirror images [reversed letters] in the process of stitching together the related maps into a Division scheme which was further detailed into related Branches making the layout much easier to handle than the original larger rectangular maps.