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  1867 (dated)         1 : 1000000 Description A striking, cyan-toned railroad map of New York State issued in 1867 by Jonas Platt Goodsell. The map offers expansive coverage of New York, as well as some of the adjacent states, including all of Vermont, western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and northern Pennsylvania. This map was issued in Godsells final year as State Engineer and Surveyor, and indeed the final year of his life. New York RailroadsThe railroad system came to New...

pkeith@altoonamirror.com A new photo-laden book about Altoona’s railroad history may be one of the few positives to come out of the myriad cancellations in 2020. Ken Kobus of Pittsburgh and Gary C. Rauch of Boulder, Colorado, recently published “The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Muleshoe, Horseshoe, Altoona and Beyond,” a 148 page, stitched, softcover, landscape-format book with 10 pages of text and more than 200 photos and maps, including many in color. Photographs range from the 1860s thro...