1947 road map of California and Nevada
‘I’m from the Sacramento area and the most notable thing about this map is the absence of the two biggest highways we now have, I-5 and I-80. I80 appears to have been Highway 40 back then, but I-5 isn’t even a prior road or highway’
Italy drawn up by roads
‘There’s a saying that all roads lead to someplace, but I just don’t remember…
Milan, by the looks of it’
Robinson’s road map of Queensland (1946)
‘This map makes everywhere seem so much more densely populated than it actually is, especially around the gulf. Many of these places probably don’t exist today’
Railway map of South Asia (1915)
‘TIL I learned you can take a train to Sri Lanka’–RitaRaccoon
Australian National Combined Urban & Rural Rail Map
‘Sometimes I look at the map and I couldn’t believe how Big we are, the vast continent and 6th largest country on earth. But then looking at this map, I can’t believe how Small we are, the entire nation plus city train network can be literally shown in one single map’–rwang8721
Reconstructed map of the 1945 Clapp Report proposals for standardisation of Australia’s railways
“I done some digging and found that South Australia uses standard gauge for the most part. 2500ish km standard vs 250isk broad. Victoria is about 60/40 broad 2350, standard 1950 … Huh interesting. I’d imagine the huge chunk of that would be the trans-australian and darwin lines. A lot of SA’s early lines were built broad (like the line to Melbourne). Then for some random reason SAR decided to build a lot of lines in the north of the state as narrow. All the early standard gauge lines in SA were built by Commonwealth Railways (like the trans-australian). The Melbourne line and a few branching off of it were later converted to standard in the early 90s”
Movement of the travellers transported via the French railroads in 1891 (published 1893)
‘Someone may want to correct me, as I don’t speak French, but –
The width of the bands colored in purple represent on the scale of 1 millimeter per 100,000 passengers, the movement of travelers transported on each line section in both directions, that is to say the average number reduced to the total length of this line or this section.
The numbers of travelers attached to each line have been expressed in thousands with a single decimal for the hundreds’–AJgloe
1893 railroad map of the United States and the surrounding area
‘Imagine if the US just improved upon this instead of embracing the car. So much money is spent to maintain roads every year’–boesno
1871 Railroad map of the United States
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‘This is fascinating, looking at “proposed” railroads and the chart of time and distance, before “railroad time” was even a thing yet. All those local times!’–Kendota_Tanassian
Canadian National Railways (1931)
‘That’s awesome. Can’t believe they would stop at places like Quetico, which is basically completely uninhabited wilderness’
Canberra/Queanbeyan Fantasy Light Rail Map
‘good time to build that superspeed rail’–Aloha-Potato
1952 metropolitan road map of Perth
‘I love this, have spent the past ten minutes going over it with a comb!’–wrylyhews
How far can you drive in one hour in different European capitals?
“Love the Copenhagen one that show the Öresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark”–votarak
Canada’s Mountains
[3678 x 3020]
“And that’s why the roads in British Columbia are a shit show lol. There’s a few highways that just zigzag throughout the interior and the north. Blows my mind when I see how many roads they have in the USA”–Fixitman77
Railway map out of Belarus
“Rochelle, Rochelle. An erotic journey from Milan to Minsk”–slugworth70
