Cost of train travel in the nineteenth century.
What was the ticket price for a transcontinental railroad trip? How much was the fare in different years to ride the Central and Union Pacific trains in the 19th century?
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From: "Jayne" withay215@yahoo.com
Where can I find ticket prices from the turn of the century? Such as New York to Chicago in 1904. ...
From: "Larry Mullaly" lmullaly@jeffnet.org
Try in Google Books: The United States: with an excursion into Mexico By Karl Baedeker, (1904) p. 342. There were slightly different prices for different routes, but these seem to average out about $18 for a chair car, and $23 for a Pullman sleeper.
—Larry Mullaly
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