Sunday, September 27, 2020

Pricing data for railroad tickets, Los Angeles, 1880

From "DOMENICO FABRIZI" domenicofabrizi@g.ucla.edu

My name is Domenico Fabrizi and I am a UCLA Economics PhD student. I am very interested in railroads and I thought you could help me!

In particular I am looking at how railroads helped the development of Los Angeles in 1880. I am looking at pricing data for tickets in the LA area of the two main players at that time, namely Southern Pacific Railway and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Do you have tickets' price data for 1880? Do you have any idea where I can find such data? I would be interested in any piece of information that could store such data ...

I saw, for example, that you have some detailed information about fares. What I am looking for is something similar for the period 1880-1890 (at least for 1887) from Kansas (and other main US cities) to LA.

There was an interesting price war at the time that I would like to study. ...

—Dom, UCLA, Economics

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some places to look:

"The Official Guide of Railways" 1881, 1889

Guides

Fare

RCAI

NAOTC

RLHS

Collectors' Weekly

Railroad Timetables

Library timetable collections

eBay.com searches for "railroad timetable (1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890)"

9/27/2020 1:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also,

Buckingham Books

Bookfinder.com search for "railroad timetables"

9/27/2020 1:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also,

Worldcat

Library of Congress

CSRM

9/27/2020 1:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the above link to "The Official Guide of Railways" CD's doesn't work, try instead,

Taplines.net

Or, Taplines on eBay

9/27/2020 1:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

From: "DOMENICO FABRIZI" domenicofabrizi@g.ucla.edu

Hello!

Thanks again for the (really!) many references that you gave me! I think now I know what to do for the next couple of days ;-)

—Dom

9/29/2020 7:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also,

Kansas Historical Society

AT&SF

9/29/2020 8:02 AM  

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