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Scholz (Richard E.) Slide Collection
MS 941
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Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Richard E. Scholz slide collection
Identifier/Call Number: MS 941
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
5 volumes in 8 slide binders
Date (inclusive): 1967-2000
Abstract: This collection is comprised of eight boxes of 35 mm color slides of diesel locomotives collected by Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway employee Richard Scholz and taken between 1964 and 2000. There are over 1,300 slides of Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway and 350 slides of Union Pacific freight locomotives in this collection.
Physical Location: Statewide Museum Collections Center: I2.208.G11
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
On loan from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society.
Arranged by railroad, then by locomotive number. Engines belonging to locomotive manufacturers have been placed at the end
of the collection in alphabetical order.
As a long-time employee of the Santa Fe Railway in Chicago, Richard Scholz was able to save papers, letters related to steam
appliance suppliers, blueprints, folios covering all aspects of steam engines plus cars that Santa Fe was disposing of. Upon
his death, he donated this material (23 tons) to The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society.
[Identification of item], Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Richard E. Scholtz Slide Collection, MS 941, California
State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
This collection is comprised of eight boxes of 35 mm color slides of diesel locomotives collected by Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway employee Richard Scholz and taken between 1964 and 2000. There are over 1,300 slides of Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway locomotives in this collection. In addition, there are slides of many other freight locomotives from companies
across the United States and Canada, including Burlington Northern, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific, Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific. There are also 76 slides of freight
locomotives belonging to manufacturers including EMD, GE, and GATX. It is unclear whether Richard Scholz was the photographer.
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diesel locomotives
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Burlington Northern Railroad Company
Union Pacific Railroad Company