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- ↑ "Railroad Manuals". www.pacificng.com. Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ↑ Poor's Manual of Railroads. H.V. & H.W. Poor. 1921. p. v. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ↑ Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities. Poor's Publishing Company. 1922. p. ii. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ↑ "Poor's manual of railroads". Library of Congress catalog. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ↑ Poor, Henry V. (1868–1924). "Poor's manual of railroads". HathiTrust Digital Library: 57 v. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
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