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Confederate Railroad Maps |
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Most of the railroads have a "Black's Map Number." These identify the railroad on the appropriate map from Black's Railroads of the Confederacy. To view Black's maps, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer (get a free copy here). (If you have Reader on your machine and the map will not open in your browser, right-click on the link below and Save Target As. After it is saved to your machine, it should open.) (From THE RAILROADS OF THE CONFEDERACY by Robert C. Black, III. Copyright (c) 1952 by the University of North Carolina Press; renewed 1980 by Robert C. Black, III. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. http://www.uncpress.unc.edu) Numerical Key to Railroad Numbers
There are other maps that you can see on line. Each of these maps has omissions and may have non-operating railroads mapped as though they were operating. Virginia Railroads 1859 (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia)
These maps are at the Library of Congress and require MrSids (free here) to view. (It may be necessary to Save the map to your computer, then Open it with MrSids.) Alabama & Tennessee Rivers Railroad, 1867 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #316) Eastern US Railroads, 1865 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #476) Florida Railroad, 1860 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #407) Louisiana and Eastern Texas, 1863 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #227) Richmond Area Railroads 1856 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #309). Shows the proposed (and never built) link from the Hungary Branch coal pits to the Richmond & York River Railroad's terminal at West Point. Also shows the Tuckahoe & James River Railroad. It incorrectly shows the Chesterfield Railroad (on the south side of the James River) -- a road that had ceased operation in 1852 and had its rail removed. Southern Railroads, 1864 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #141) Virginia & Tennessee Railroad 1856 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #400) Virginia Central Railroad (Western part, from Waynesboro to Covington) about 1860 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #602) Virginia Railroads, 1869 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographic Division, #412) |
