The railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states
John Moody's 1919 history The Railroad Builders, published by Yale University Press in New Haven, chronicles the expansion of American railways for general readers interested in the nation's growth. The pictures pair folding route maps of the Baltimore and Ohio, and New York Central, Santa Fe and Great Northern systems, with photographs of early locomotives and rolling stock; a designer could draw on the red-and-tan map linework and the sepia-toned railway photographs for vintage transport graphics.
