Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Photographs, 1924-1960
Collection Number: 5149 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Photographs, 1924-1960
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5149 P
Abstract:
Photographs that come largely from Pennsylvania, with a large portion from the Pennsylvania
State Legislative Board, B.R.T.
Creator:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT)
Quanitities:
0.44 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, N.Y. as a protective
and insurance organization. By the time of its merger with three other railroad labor
unions to form the United Transportation Union in 1969, it had the greatest membership
of any of the operating railroad brotherhoods.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) was established to represent members'
interests in obtaining a satisfactory contract with management. The first Canadian
lodge was established in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1885, and the first Ladies' Auxiliary
was organized in Fort Gratiot, Mich. in 1889. These records reflect the union's political
and fraternal activities as well as its actions in the areas of collective bargaining,
grievances, and railroad and labor legislation. As the largest of the unions which
merged to form the United Transportation Union in 1969, the bulk of its then current
files formed the basis for the files now held in the merged union's headquarters.
The rail service members of the BRT included conductors and their assistants, dining
car stewards, ticket collectors, train baggagemen, brakemen, and train flagmen. The
yard service members of the BRT included yardmasters, yard conductors, switchtenders,
foremen, flagmen, brakemen, switchmen, car tenders, operators, hump riders, and car
operators. In 1933, the BRT organized interstate bus operators, and included them
under BRT contracts held with U.S. bus companies.
BRT officers were elected at the Grand Lodge Convention of the Brotherhood, held
every 4 years. The principal officers included a president, an assistant to the president,
a general secretary-treasurer, Canadian and national legislative representatives,
a senior vice-president, BRT representative, and National Railroad Board of Adjustment
representative. The BRT had four governing boards: the Board of Directors, Board of
Trustees and Insurance, Board of Appeals, and Executive Board.
This is a collection of photographs that come largely from Pennsylvania, with a large
portion from the Pennsylvania State Legislative Board, B.R.T.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Photographs #5149 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Trainmen, Locals 517 and 1090, Records 5149: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Records 5149 MB: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Memorabilia 5348: W.P. Kennedy as President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen against the
Long Island Railroad Company Court Documents 5446: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Ledger 5612: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Moosic Tunnel Lodge no.93 Meeting Minutes 5623: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Legislative Board of New York Files 5631: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
General Committee File 5647: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Joppa Lodge (Toledo, OH) Minute Books 5894: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Additional Railroad Booklets 6268 P: Joint Committee of Adjustment for the Rock Island System's Order of Railway
Conductors and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Photograph 6312 P: Judith Sullivan Kowalczyk Collection of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Photographs 6312 PUBS: Judith Sullivan Kowalczyk Collection of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Publications 6312m: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Annual Report of the Legislative Board 6405 PUBS: William Sharp Collection of The Railroad Trainmen's Journal 6480 MB: Paul Berger Collection of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Memorabilia
Names:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Subjects:
Railroads -- United States.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Caboose 91526, Jersey Central Lines
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1960 |
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Scope and Contents
Caboose 91526, Jersey Central Lines, 1960. J. Lechner (Conductor) and C. K. Jenkins
(Flagman) are not pictured.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Joe Lechner with Caboose 91526
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Scope and Contents
Conductor Joe Lechner with Caboose 91526. His clothes are still clean and the waybills
are on inside pockets
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
BRT Caboose
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1924 |
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Scope and Contents
Historic caboose in which the B. of R. T. was founded on September 23, 1883; dedicated
on September 28, 1924 at Neahwa Park in Oneonta, NY.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Pennsylvania
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Scope and Contents
"Pennsylvania" on display at New York's World Fair
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous
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Scope and Contents
removed from 5149 box 31, ff4
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Lodge #1, Part 2
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Scope and Contents
removed from 5149, box 22, folder (Lodge #1, Part 2)
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Photos transferred from 5149, box 132, ff32
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Scope and Contents
no other info
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Pennsylvania State Leg. Bd. B.R.T. - pt. 1
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Scope and Contents
found in box 132 of 5149, unfoldered
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Pennsylvania State Leg. Bd. B.R.T. - pt. 2
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Scope and Contents
found in box 132 of 5149, unfoldered
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Pennsylvania State Leg. Bd. B.R.T. - pt. 3 - Negatives
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Scope and Contents
found in box 132 of 5149, unfoldered
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Oversize photos
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Scope and Contents
7 oversize photos sorted out of the 'misc. photos' box that has been stored over the
mapcase ; and B.R.T. National Legislative Conference Cleveland, Ohio - August 21-23,
1943 ; Eleventh Biennial Convention, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen ; Eleventh Bien
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| Box 3 |
Images digitized from the collection.
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