OLD COLONY & NEWPORT RAILWAY. SPECIAL NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES.| ON AND AFTER SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1872, THE FOLLOWING RULES IN REGARD TO SIGNALS FOR EXTRA TRAINS, &C., WILL BE IN FORCE...

[Boston: 1872]. Broadside, 11" x 13.5". Printed on orange paper using different typesettings, three columns. Signed in type "Boston, Jan. 1, 1872. J.R. Kendrick, Supt." Five spots on verso where glue had been used to hang notice, old horizontal fold. Else clean. Very Good.

The Old Colony Railroad was incorporated in 1838; it later merged with the Newport and Fall River Railroad to form the Old Colony & Newport Railway. This railway linked Boston with distant points in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This broadside notice to employees contains rules regarding extra trains, signals, danger signals, time between trains, entering and passing stations, speed of trains, and signals at draw bridges.
OCLC 41289344 [1-Wichita State Univ.]. Item #27325

Price: $125.00

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