"Chemin de fer Chinois de L'est" train schedule for the Chinese Eastern Railway, Winter 1908-09

"Chemin de fer Chinois de L'est" train schedule for the Chinese Eastern Railway, Winter 1908-09

The Chinese Eastern Railway was a single tracked line providing a shortcut for the world's longest railroad, the Trans-Siberian Railway from near the Siberian city of Chita via Harbin across northern inner Manchuria to the Russian port of Vladivostok. This route drastically reduced the travel distance required along the originally proposed main northern route to Vladivostok. (Source)

Chinese Eastern Railway

Forms part of the Edgar Odell Lovett and Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Family papers, 1849-1979
MS 494. Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. woodson@rice.edu

Digital version published by Rice University, 2010.

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Digitized August 24, 2010

This item was collected on the world tour taken by Rice Institute President Edgar Odell Lovett, his wife Mary Hale Lovett, and Secretary for Rice's Board of Trustees, Carrington Weems. The mission of the tour was to research the best characteristics of the world's top universities and plan the academic, administrative, student and physical structure of the Rice Institute.