Railroad Files, 1862-1979
Collection Number: 6039

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Railroad Files, 1862-1979
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6039
Creator:
Kheel Center
Quanitities:
5.67 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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Railroad Files #6039. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

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CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Train service time books for different workers during years
1912-1927
Box 1 Folder 2
Map of the railroads in New York State
1955
Box 1 Folder 3
Pay Roll sheet from Lawton Branch Rail Road Co.
1864
Scope and Contents
May 1864
Box 1 Folder 4
Rules & Regulations of Branch No. - United Trainmen's Association
1883
Scope and Contents
Instituted at St. Thomas, Jan. 7, 1883, St. Thomas. Ont.
Box 1 Folder 5
"Firing Locomotives : A Practical Treatise on Combustion and Steam Making", by Angus Sinclair
Box 1 Folder 6
Sheahan's telegraphic cipher code
1938
Scope and Contents
1938 edition
Box 1 Folder 7
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. -- Way-Bill
Box 1 Folder 8
Financier's Office - Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen - Quarterly Report
1888
Scope and Contents
May 31, 1888
Box 1 Folder 9
Payroll for Boston & Providence Rail Road
1863
Scope and Contents
May, 1863
Box 1 Folder 10
Pullman's Palace Car Company - Pullman Palace, Pacific & Southern Car Companies - Pullman's Palace Car Company, General Ticket Dept.
1883
Scope and Contents
Ticket/May 22, 1883; General ticket - Chicago/188-; Chicago, April 24th, 1883
Box 1 Folder 11
Xerox copy of payroll for Mobile & Ohio RR
1862
Scope and Contents
April, 1862
Box 1 Folder 12
Railroad Man's Guide
Box 1 Folder 13
2 Train orders on New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad (former ERIE)
1890
Scope and Contents
March 12, 1890
Box 1 Folder 14
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.
Scope and Contents
Clearance Cards -- Train Orders -- Freight Receipts
Box 1 Folder 15
Cipher Code for use of Organizations of Railway Employees in Telegraphic Correspondence, arranged by Sheahan
1892
Box 1 Folder 16
Rule and Specifications for Uniforms / Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company
1921
Scope and Contents
effective January 1, 1921
Box 1 Folder 17
Pennsylvania Lines : West of Pittsburgh Western Division ; Regulations and Rates of Pay Governing Conductors, Trainmen and Yardmen
1910
Scope and Contents
effective September 1, 1910
Box 1 Folder 18
Pennsylvania Rail Road Co.
Scope and Contents
Instructions governing employment of women for rail road service on the Pennsylvania Rail Road
Box 1 Folder 19
Union Pacific Railroad, Golden Spike Centennial
Scope and Contents
kit containing: 1 pamphlet ("the Union Pacific Story") ; 6 smaller booklets ; 6 photographs
Box 1 Folder 20
NY Central; Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Rail Road
Scope and Contents
Charts & history of the Rail road
Box 1 Folder 21
"Pay Roll of Force employed in the Transportation of Passengers and Merchandise on the Bristol Line
1868
Scope and Contents
April, 1868
Box 1 Folder 22
Union Pacific "City of Los Angeles -- The Challenger"
Scope and Contents
trip description, schedules, train information
Box 1 Folder 23
Joint Way-Bill for Galveston, Houston & Henderson Rail Road, from Galveston to Grand Rock
1882
Scope and Contents
Dec. 2, 1882
Box 1 Folder 24
"The Story of the Centenary Pageant of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company", R.D. Form 4-B - from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
1920
Scope and Contents
Answers to examination questions dated June 25th, 1920
Box 1 Folder 25
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Scope and Contents
Correspondence ; Copy of original strike order announced by the American Railway Union against the Great Northern Railway ; other misc. papers regarding the strike order
Box 1 Folder 26
Cipher Code for use of Organizations of Railway Employees, in Telegraphic correspondence, arranged by Sheahan
1898
Scope and Contents
2nd edition
Box 1 Folder 27
Boston & Providence Railroad Corporation -- Machinery Department Pay Roll
1887
Box 1 Folder 28
Mitchell's Models and easy lessons in locomotive running
Scope and Contents
Westinghouse No. 6 Distributing Valve E T Locomotive Brake Equipment
Box 1 Folder 29
Mitchell's Models and easy lessons in locomotive running
Scope and Contents
S-6 Independent Brake Valve ; No. 6 E T Locomotive Brake Equipment
Box 1 Folder 30
Mitchell's Models and easy lessons in locomotive running
Scope and Contents
Westinghouse Type K Triple Valve
Box 1 Folder 31
Mitchell's Models and easy lessons in locomotive running
Scope and Contents
Westinghouse Type L Triple Valve
Box 1 Folder 32
Mitchell's Models and easy lessons in locomotive running
Scope and Contents
Train Air-Signal System
Box 1 Folder 33
Mitchell's Models and easy lessons in locomotive running
Scope and Contents
H-6 Automatic Brake Valve, No. 6 E T Locomotive Brake Equipment
Box 1 Folder 34
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
1970
Scope and Contents
passenger schedule booklet, effective April 26, 1970
Box 1 Folder 35
Testimonials and Case Histories : Results of the Crosser Amendments to the Railroad Retirement Act
Box 1 Folder 36
Baltimore and Ohio Employees Magazine
1914
Scope and Contents
November, 1914
Box 1 Folder 37
The New York Central Railroad Company.
Scope and Contents
Instructions for Conductors and Others Concerned Pertaining to Free Travel and Passes
Box 2 Folder 1
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for American Railway Association
1910-1914
Box 2 Folder 2
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Ann Arbor Railroad Company
1940
Box 2 Folder 3
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Association of American Railroads
1957
Box 2 Folder 4
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
1924-1966
Box 2 Folder 5
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
1927-1948
Box 2 Folder 6
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Central of Georgia Railway
1944-1950
Box 2 Folder 7
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
1927-1951
Box 2 Folder 8
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
1945
Box 2 Folder 9
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Chicago and North Western Railway Company
1936-1945
Box 2 Folder 10
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Chicago and Burlington Railroad Company
1927-1928
Box 2 Folder 11
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Chicago Car Interchange
1912-1934
Box 2 Folder 12
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Company
1910
Box 2 Folder 13
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
1958
Box 2 Folder 14
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Detroit and Toledo Shoreline
1938
Box 2 Folder 15
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Erie Railroad Company
1920-1950
Box 2 Folder 16
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
1921
Box 2 Folder 17
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Hocking Valley Railway
1927
Box 2 Folder 18
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company
1957
Box 2 Folder 19
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Company
1953
Box 2 Folder 20
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
1928
Box 2 Folder 21
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company
1939
Box 2 Folder 22
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
1946
Box 2 Folder 23
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for New York Central Railroad Company
1926-1956
Box 2 Folder 24
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad
1942
Box 3 Folder 1-3
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Nickel Plate (Railroad)-- (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad)
1924-1954
Box 3 Folder 4
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Norfolk and Western Railway Company
1954-1970
Box 3 Folder 5
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Pennsylvania Railroad
1929-1943
Box 3 Folder 6
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Pere Marquette
1924-1944
Box 3 Folder 7
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company
1920-1949
Box 3 Folder 8
Rules and interpretations and misc. books
1913-1927
Box 3 Folder 9
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway
1955
Box 3 Folder 10
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
1942
Box 3 Folder 11
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Toledo Terminal Railroad Company
1914
Box 3 Folder 12
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Wabash Railway Company
1942
Box 3 Folder 13
Rules and interpretations and misc. books for Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company
1917-1945
Box 4 Folder All
Time tables for the following railroads
1951-1972
Scope and Contents
Pennsylvania Railroad - Western Region ; Pennsylvania Railroad - Northwestern Region ; Pennsylvania Railroad - Buckeye Region ; Pennsylvania Railroad - Lake Region ; Penn Central - Western Region
Box 5 Folder All
Time tables and schedules for the following railroads
1923-1979
Scope and Contents
The Cleveland & Canton Railroad ; The Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railroad ; Canadian National Railways ; Union Pacific ; AMTRAK ; Kansas City Southern Lines ; Southern Railway System ; Railroad Men's Time Book ; Erie-Lackawanna ; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company ; Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Company ; Houston, Belt and Terminal Railway Company ; Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Company ; Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company) ; Illinois Central ; Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ; Pennsylvania Railroad ; New York Central - Western Area ; Missouri Pcific Lines ; Penn Central - East/West
Box 6 Folder All
Time table (leather bound) for the Northern Pacific Railway Company
1932