Richard C. Carpenters "A Railroad Atlas of the United States 1946"

[Missaberoad]

Some of these volumes have been out for nearly a decade so apologies if this is old news.

I Just picked up Vol 4 and 5 of the Atlas' mentioned in the title and I must say they are fabulous. 
I bought the two volumes for the areas I'm interested in, Volume 1-3  cover the Northeast and the Rust belt.

They are hand drawn maps of all Rail lines presented as 30x30 Minute Quadrangle at a scale of 1"= 4 miles with more detailed maps for cities and complex areas.

The amount of information these maps display is amazing;
- Ownership (1946 and past)
- Mile posts (marked every ten miles)
- In service and abandoned Trackage
- Passenger stations
- Train order stations
- Bridges
- Tunnels
- Coaling stations
- Locomotive shops
- Railroad crossings at grade
- Interlocking towers (In service/past) (with name/call letters)
- Automatic & remote interlockings (with control locations for remote)
- Yards and some industries are shown on the larger scale maps

Here's a couple examples of the maps.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91ZeZmINAmL.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81iV69OCUCL.jpg

And a Amazon Search link

I'll be for sure getting the other Volumes and hopefully he is able to complete the country!