Item #2157 Rules for the Government of Employees of All Roads Operated by the Mexican National Railroad Company...Camino de Fierro Nacional Mexicano, Reglamento para Gobierno de los Empleados. U S. Spanish-Language Imprint, Railroads, Mexico.
Rules for the Government of Employees of All Roads Operated by the Mexican National Railroad Company...Camino de Fierro Nacional Mexicano, Reglamento para Gobierno de los Empleados

Rules for the Government of Employees of All Roads Operated by the Mexican National Railroad Company...Camino de Fierro Nacional Mexicano, Reglamento para Gobierno de los Empleados

New York: C.G. Crawford Press, [ca. 1892]. 149pp., in English and Spanish. 16mo. Original maroon pebbled cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover. Minor staining and edge wear, corners bumped. Hinges starting and a bit tender, front free endpaper detached but present, minor even toning to text, circular ink stamp and ink notation on front pastedown from the Mexican National Railway's Southern General Division's Superintendent, small purple ink stamp on title page reading, "In effect 1st June 1891." Very good. Item #2157

A pocket-sized guide for the employees of the Mexican National Railroad Company, printed in facing English and Spanish text. The work codifies the rules for work trains, deportment and uniforms of employees, rules for train masters, conductors, yard masters, flagmen, brakemen, and porters, among others. There are also rules for freight, car inspectors, and the roadway department. The final fifty pages of the work cover rules for the telegraph department, and the text ends with a one-page table on telegraph signals for the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation. Three copies in OCLC, at the Clements, New York Public Library, and the California State Railroad Museum Library.

Price: $850.00