Burlington and Missouri River Railroad 1882
by Chuck Mountain
Title
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad 1882
Artist
Chuck Mountain
Medium
Digital Art - Adobe Photoshop
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1. Here is the full title: Correct Map of the Burlington and Missouri River R.R. [Railroad.] The Burlington Route and Its Connections. And the tag line: This Is the Great Through Car Line and Is Universally Conceded to Be the Finest Equipped Railroad in the World For All Classes of Travel. With such a modest statement, who could refrain from buying a ticket and heading west?
2. And look at the unusual color scheme. Yellow, green, a little orange, and tan.
3. The states west of the Missouri River are strangely distorted in their dimensions. Iowa put on quite a bit of weight as did Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Montana. As if to make up for these distortions, states farther west are squashed lengthwise.
I suspect that whoever drew the original map had an accurate paper map of the East Coast and Midwest States, but had to guess about the rest of the Union based on faulty surveying and guesses.
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December 11th, 2023
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