Oregon Short Line & Southern Pacific
Rules and Regulations of the Transportation Department
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company; Southern Pacific Company (Lines East of Sparks)
Salt Lake City: 1907. 6.75 inches, sextodecimo. Brown cloth over limp boards, gilt-titled front board, red-tinted edges. A fourth line below “Lines East of Sparks,” reading “Union Pacific Railroad Co. (Lines West of Green River),” is overstamped in solid gilt, faintly legible through wear. Pp. [1-4], 5-147. Tipped-in amendment notices: full pages dated 1911 and 1912, and several smaller undated slips. Color-printed semaphore and signal diagrams throughout; several printed forms in text.
Fair. Well-used employee’s working copy. Boards worn, warped, and stained; front-board gilt and red-stained edges faded. Foxing to front and rear interior sections. Ink scribble to bottom edge of p. 25. Gutters cracked/splitting at pp. 28-29, 62-63, 94-95, and 126-127; p. 29/30 detached and laid in. Bottom edge of tipped-in 1912 notice (between pp. 26/27) chipped. Collation complete.
Operating rules for the Southern Pacific’s lines east of Sparks, across Nevada, issued just three years after Sparks was founded.
