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1895 railroad map of Ohio.

Map shows late nineteenth century Ohio railroads, canals, counties, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes illustration, index to railroads and tables of telegraph, express, and sleeping car companies. Scale [ca. 1:520,000].
Date: 1895
Creator: Ohio Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Truck Bolster. (open access)

Car-Truck Bolster.

Patent for a car-truck bolster "made of cast steel or malleable iron, cast in one piece, and provided with a plurality of corrugations running longitudinally or in an approximately longitudinal direction along the girders which form the sides of the said bolster" (lines 15-20).
Date: May 28, 1895
Creator: Maher, John N. & Wheless, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History