Mexican Central Railway

MEXICAN CENTRAL RAILWAY

Publication: Poole Bros, 1893, Chicago

25 1/4" x 21 1/2" sheet, folds to 8 1/2" x 3 3/4" color, pictorial wrappers, 18 panels, illustrated. One side is a color map of the Mexican Central Railway and connections outlined in black going southward from El Paso to Mexico City, westward to Guadalajara, and eastward to Tampico. Also shown are steamship lines from Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, New York, and Europe all scheduled to arrive in Tampico, Mexico. The other side has 10 panels with schedules, rates, and information, 2 panels for the covers, and 6 panels that provide brief sketches of Mexican cities and points of interest and pictorial illustrations of the Mexican Central Depot, Ciudad Juarez, bath house, near station, Aquas Calientes, a coffee plantation on San Luis Division, the falls of Juanacatlan, the Plaza De Armas and Cathedral, Guadalajara, and the statue of Cuauhtemoc. Some repairs at the crease folds by a paper conservator, else a very good copy.