Were can I find updated Railroad maps?
If you mean maps of all railroads in a given state, I’d recommend SPV’s series of railroad atlases. They show all current and former lines, and are pretty up-to-date.
If you mean maps of individual railroads, your best bet would be to try their websites. I don’t think too many railroads offer paper folding maps of their plants any more.
Actually, they do have maps. I have current maps for UP, BNSF, NS and CSX printed within a year. They are generally given out to customers and connecting lines at various industry meetings. These are fairly accurate, but they are at a system level, not division or smaller. Those are harder to get.
Also, there is an expensive atlas called the Professional Railroad Atlas available. I have found a number of inaccuracies in it though…
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State Dept of Transportations will have excellent highway maps and often have the railroad lines.
Also the DOT’s will often have railroad maps showing all lines. Both Illinois and Indiana have excellent maps.
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Get a DeLorme’s gazetteer and an SPV and you’ve got a good resource - SPV tells you about where the line is, and whose, and the gazetteer gets you on site.
[:)] I just recently received the Illinois RR map I requested from IDOT and it is awesome and no charge. Thanks IDOT!
I have a SPV collection that I supplement with a Delorme atlas of whatever state that I’m railfanning in. The DeLorme books are very detailed and do show railroads although their info, such as the current owner of a line, is sometimes outdated. I bought the new Professional Railroad Atlas of North America from Deskmap Systems, Inc. It has been upgraded by the inclusion of highways, something that was missing in the original atlas. But it is not very detailed. It does show what lines were taken over by NS and CSX from Conrail. Wish Trains would do a good rail atlas. I’ve always been interested in maps and think it would be great, if I were a cartographer, to make a really good railfan map series.