The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's Harold Stirton Photography Collection

Series 1. Harold Stirton Photography Collection

Scope and Contents

The Harold Stirton Photography collection contains photographs of locomotives and trains in North America. This collection contains photographs that were not only taken by Stirton, but also by other railroad photographers.

The Harold Stirton photography collection represents negative photographs that were collected by Harold Stirton. Many of these photographs come from other notable photographers such as Paul Eilenberger and Robert J. Foster. These photographs typically showcase locomotives from various railroads across Canada, Mexico, and the United States in the decades ranging from the 1930's to the 1960's.Photos in the United States mostly cover railroads located in the Midwest and Eastern parts of the country.

The negative photographs are in good condition, and come in various sizes from 16mm to 3x5 negatives. The photographs are kept in envelopes which nearly always includes the corporate name, locomotive number, wheel arrangement of the locomotive, date of the photo, and the initials or name of the photographer. The negatives are sorted alphabetically by the corporate name of the railroad, and then by the locomotive number.

box 1

Abitibi Power and Paper

box 1

Akron, Canton, and Youngstown

box 1

Alton

box 1

Alton and Southern

box 1

Ann Arbor

box 1

Arkansas

box 1

Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe

box 1

Baltimore and Ohio

box 1

Belt Railway of Chicago

box 1

Bessemer and Lake Erie

box 1

Bevier and Southern

box 1

Black Mountain

box 1

Boston and Albany

box 1

Boston and Maine

box 1

Brimstone

box 1

Calcasieu Paper

box 1

California Western

box 1

Calumet and Hecla

box 1

Canadian National

box 2

Canadian National

box 2

Canadian Pacific

box 2

Central of Georgia

box 2

Central Vermont

box 2

Chesapeake and Ohio

box 2

Chicago and Alton

box 2

Chicago and Calumet River

box 2

Chicago and Eastern Illinois

box 2

Chicago and Illinois Midland

box 3

Chicago and Illinois Midland

box 3

Chicago and Northwestern

box 3

Chicago and Western Indiana

box 3

Chicago, Attica and Southern

box 3

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy

box 3

Chicago Gravel

box 3

Chicago Great Western

box 3

Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville

box 4

Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville

box 4

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific

box 4

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific

box 4

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha

box 4

Chicago, West Pullman and Southern

box 4

City of Winnipeg

box 4

Clinchfield

box 4

Colorado and Southern

box 4

Consolidated Water Power and Paper

box 4

Cumberland Railway and Coal

box 5

Dardanelle and Russellville

box 5

Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern

box 5

Denver and Rio Grande Western

box 5

Detroit, Toledo and Ironton

box 5

Duluth and Northeastern

box 5

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range

box 5

Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific

box 5

East Broadtop

box 5

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern

box 5

Emory River

box 5

Erie

box 5

Ferdinand

box 5

Chihuahua Al Pacifico

box 5

Nacional de Mexico

box 5

Unidos de Yucatán

box 6

Frankfort and Cincinnati

box 6

Franklin and Carolina

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French Lick, West Baden, and Southern

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Galesburg and Great Eastern

box 6

Grand Trunk Western

box 6

Great Northern

box 6

Great Western

box 6

Great Winnipeg Water District

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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio

box 6

Hermitage Plantation

box 6

Hetch Hetchy

box 6

Illinois Central

box 7

Illinois Central

box 7

Illinois Northern

box 7

Illinois Terminal

box 7

Kansas City Southern

box 7

Kentucky and Indiana Terminal

box 7

Kentucky and Tennessee

box 7

Lake Superior and Ishpeming

box 7

Louisville and Nashville

box 7

Louisville , New Albany and Corydon

box 7

Macon, Dublin and Savannah

box 7

Maine Central

box 7

Manchester and Oneida

box 7

Maritime Railway

box 7

Maryland and Pennsylvania

box 7

Mid-Continent Railway Museum

box 7

Midland Terminal

box 7

Minneapolis and St. Louis

box 7

Soo Line

box 7

Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie

box 8

Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie

box 8

Soo Line

box 8

Minnesota Transfer

box 8

Missouri - Illinois

box 8

Missouri, Kansas and Texas

box 8

Missouri Pacific

box 8

Mobile and Ohio

box 8

Monolith Pacific Midwest

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Monongahela

box 8

Morehead and North Fork

box 8

Nahma and Northern

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Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis

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New York Central and Hudson River

box 8

New York Central

box 9

New York Central

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New York, Chicago and St. Louis

box 10

Norfolk and Western

box 10

Northern Alberta

box 10

Northern Pacific

box 10

Oliver Iron Mine

box 10

Outer Harbor Terminal

box 10

Paris and Mt. Pleasant

box 11

Pennsylvania Railroad

box 12

Pennsylvania Railroad

box 12

Peoria and Eastern

box 12

Pere Marquette

box 12

Pittsburg and Shawmut

box 12

Pittsburg and West Virginia

box 12

Portland Terminal

box 12

Potosi and Rio Verde

box 12

Prescott and Northwestern

box 12

Rahway Valley

box 12

Reader

box 12

Reading

box 12

Rio Grande Southern

box 12

Richmond, Fredricksburg and Potomac

box 12

Rutland

box 12

San Luis Central

box 12

San Luis Valley Southern

box 12

Santa Maria Valley

box 12

Seaboard Air Line

box 12

Smoky Mountain

box 12

Southern

box 12

Southern Pacific

box 12

Southern Pine Lumber

box 12

Southwest Lumber Mills

box 12

Spokane, Portland and Seattle

box 12

St. Louis and San Francisco

box 12

St. Louis and Ohio

box 13

St. Louis and Southwest

box 13

St. Louis and San Francisco

box 13

Sydney and Louisburg

box 13

Tennessee

box 13

Tennessee Central

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Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

box 13

Texas and New Orleans

box 13

Texas and Pacific

box 13

Toledo, Peoria and Western

box 13

Union Pacific

box 13

Union Terminal

box 13

Virginia and Truckee

box 13

Virginian

box 13

Wabash

box 13

Western Maryland

box 13

Western Pacific

box 13

Wheeling and Lake Erie

box 13

Winston and Salem Southbound

Series 2. Harold Stirton Postcard Collection

Scope and Contents

The Harold Stirton Postcard collection contains photographs of locomotives and trains from various railroads across Canada and the United States in the decades ranging from the 1930's to the 1960's.The photos taken in the United States mostly cover railroads located in the Midwest and Eastern parts of the country. This collection contains photographs that were not only taken by Stirton, but also by other railroad photographers such as Paul Eilenberger and Robert J. Foster.

The negative photographs are in good condition, and come in various sizes from 16mm to 3x5 negatives. The photographs are kept in envelopes which nearly always includes the corporate name, locomotive number, wheel arrangement of the locomotive, date of the photo, and the initials or name of the photographer. The negatives are sorted alphabetically by the corporate name of the railroad, and then by the locomotive number.

box 1

Alabama, Tennessee & Northern

box 1

Alton

box 1

Alton & Southern

box 1

Ann Arbor

box 1

Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe

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Atlanta & West Point

box 1

Atlantic Coast Line

box 1

Baltimore & Ohio

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Belt Railroad of Chicago

box 1

Black Mountain

box 1

Bonhomie and Hattiesburg Southern

box 1

Boston & Albany

box 1

Boston & Maine

box 1

Cadiz Railroad

box 1

California Western

box 1

Canadian Pacific

box 1

Central of Georgia

box 1

Central Railroad of New Jersey

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Jersey Central Lines

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Central Vermont

box 1

Charleston & Western Carolina

box 1

Chesapeake & Ohio

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Chicago & Eastern Illinois

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Chicago & Illinois Midland

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Chicago & Northwestern

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Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy

box 1

Chicago Great Western

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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific

box 2

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific

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Clinchfield

box 2

Colorado Southern

box 2

Columbus & Greenville

box 2

Crowell Long Leaf Lumber

box 2

Plantation

box 2

Davenport, Rock Island, & Northwestern

box 2

Delaware & Hudson

box 2

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western

box 2

Delaware Northern

box 2

Denver & Rio Grande Western

box 2

Denver & Salt Lake

box 2

Detroit and Mackinac

box 2

Detroit, Toledo and Ironton

box 2

Duluth, Missabi & Iron Range

box 2

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic

box 2

Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific

box 2

Erie

box 2

Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf

box 2

Florida East Coast

box 2

Fort Worth & Denver

box 2

Galesburg & Great Eastern

box 2

Georgia

box 2

Georgia & Florida

box 2

Grand Trunk Western

box 2

Great Northern

box 2

Gulf, Mobile & Northern

box 2

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio

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Illinois Central

box 2

Illinois Terminal

box 2

Indian Hill & Iron Range

box 2

Indiana Harbor Belt

box 2

Indianapolis Union

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Interstate

box 2

Kansas City Southern

box 2

Kansas City Terminal

box 2

Kentucky & Indiana Terminal

box 2

Kentucky & Tennessee

box 2

Laurinberg & Southern

box 2

LeHigh Valley

box 2

Litchfield & Madison

box 2

Louisiana & Arkansas

box 2

Louisville & Nashville

box 2

Macon, Dublin & Savannah

box 2

Marianna & Blountstown

box 2

Marinette, Tomahawk & Western

box 2

Meridian & Bigbee River

box 2

Midland Valley

box 2

Soo Line

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Missouri and Arkansas

box 2

Missouri - Illinois

box 2

Missouri - Kansas - Texas

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Mississippi Central

box 3

Missouri Pacific

box 3

Mobile & Ohio

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Montour

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Moscow, Camden & St. Augustine

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Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis

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New York Central

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New York, Chicago & St. Louis

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Norfolk & Western

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Northern Pacific

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Norwood & St. Lawrence

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Oneida & Western

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Pennsylvania

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Peoria & Eastern

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Pittsburg & West Virginia

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Rahway Valley

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Reading

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Rockdale, Sandow & Southern

box 3

Rock Island Southern

box 3

San Luis Valley Southern

box 3

Seabord Air Line

box 3

Shevlin - Nixon

box 3

Sierra Railroad

box 3

Smoky Mountain

box 3

Southern

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Southern Pacific

box 4

Spokane International

box 4

Spokane, Portland & Seattle

box 4

St. Louis and O'Fallon

box 4

St. Louis - San Francisco

box 4

St. Louis - Southwestern

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Stratton and Company

box 4

Sylvania Central

box 4

Tennessee Central

box 4

Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

box 4

Texas and New Orleans

box 4

Texas and Pacific

box 4

Toledo, Peoria & Western

box 4

Toledo Terminal

box 4

Tonopah and Tidewater

box 4

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo

box 4

Tremont & Gulf

box 4

Tuskegee

box 4

Union Railroad

box 4

Union Pacific

box 4

Valley and Siletz

box 4

Virginia & Truckee

box 4

Virginian

box 4

Wabash

box 4

Western of Alabama

box 4

Western Maryland

box 4

Western Pacific

box 4

Wheeling and Lake Erie

box 4

Wichita Falls & Southern

box 4

Wise Coal & Coke

box 4

Wrightsville & Tennille

box 4

Yosemite Valley