National Geographic shows some great 1968 posters from the Soviet Union's United States mapping project. They beautifully illustrate how cartographic symbols translate to their real world features. For example there are numerous bridge types shown with their symbols below. Because this is copyright material, the only way I can legally show this is through Twitter - though that hasn't stopped others from posting these.
Secret Soviet Posters Demystify Map Symbols https://t.co/UueIoRIWGu via @NatGeo
— 🌏Map of the Week (@MapOfTheWeek) July 8, 2020
If you view their article's slide show you can see how different types of highways, railroads, power plants and buildings are represented.
Images from
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press
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