Warren Railroad Ledger Sheets with Calligraphy - Americana - Miscellaneous For Sale

Calligraphic & Illuminated Civil War Era Railroad Ledger Sheets with Hand Colored Designs - Very Unusual & Beautifully Done. Pages are 14\" Wide and 16.5\" Tall. Top half illustrated of the 1st page. Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad-tipped instrument, brush, or other writing instrument. A contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as \"the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner\". The Warren Railroad was a railroad in Warren County, New Jersey, that served as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad\'s mainline from 1856 to 1911. The Warren Railroad was chartered on February 12, 1851, by special act of the state of New Jersey, to provide a connection from the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad\'s (DL&W) terminus at the Delaware River to Hampton, New Jersey, on the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), in anticipation of a merger between the two railroads. The railroad\'s date of organization was March 4, 1853, and construction began that June. Terrain made the Warren expensive to build, requiring a large amount of excavation, three large bridges, and two tunnels. DL&W began operating on the railway on May 28, 1856, from Delaware, New Jersey, to Hampton, and continuing over CNJ to Jersey City. DL&W formally leased the Warren Railroad in October 1857. The tracks were originally 6ft (1,829mm) gauge, continuous with the DL&W\'s Pennsylvania tracks. A third rail was added to CNJ\'s 4ft8+1⁄2in (1,435mm) standard gauge track. When the railroad opened in 1856, the Van Nest Gap Tunnel was not yet completed, and a Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.

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