Inventory of the Northern Electric Railway Company Collection, 1906-1922 MS 6
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives staff
2022 edition
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2022
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Northern Electric Railway Company Collection, 1906-1922
Creator:
Northern Electric Railway
Identifier/Call Number: MS 6
Physical Description:
1.67 Linear Feet
1 manuscript box + 2 OV boxes
Date (inclusive): 1905-1922
Abstract: Includes financial records, ordinances and agreements of the Northern Electric Railway.
Physical Location:
Statewide Museum Collections Center:
I2.208.U10 Boxes 1, 3
I2.208.U10 Box 2
Language of Material:
English
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Conditions Governing Access
1. Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of D. Ross Sullivan, 1980, 1983; Wendell P. Hammon, 1995 [Box 2] and purchase, 2020.
Corporate History
The Northern Electric Company was incorporated on June 14, 1905. Its trackage consisted of a line from Chico to Sacramento,
branches from Oroville Junction to Oroville and Chico to Hamilton, and street car tracks in Chico. In December 1907, the
firm was absorbed into the Northern Electric Railway Company. This line operated almost 160 miles of track from Sacramento
to Chico and Oroville, as well as street railway trackage in Sacramento. The Northern Electric Railway constructed trackage
for the Sacramento Terminal Company, which it controlled, in 1909-1910, and acquired the Vallejo and Northern Railroad in
December 1912. This latter company had been projected to run between Vallejo and Sacramento, with branches to Suisun and
Vacaville. In reality, the Vallejo and Northern constructed only 1.8 miles of trackage in Sacramento and a line between Suisun
and Vacaville.
The Northern Electric Railway Company entered receivership in October 1914. In 1918 it was sold at auction to the newly-formed
Sacramento Northern Railroad Company.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Northern Pacific Railway Company Records, MS 6, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives,
Sacramento, California.
Scope and Contents
Includes financial records, ordinances and agreements of the Northern Electric Railway.Financial records include: journal
entries, vouchers, and invoices for 1913-1915, a cash book for 1905, credit memos and debits for 1908-1909, real estate records
include agreements and ordinances to operate in Northern California cities, balance and payment sheets for 1915, a transfer
ledger, 1912-1914, entitled "Sutter County Land Syndicate," documenting land sales by the Northern Electric Company and by
its real estate subsidiary, the Northern Realty Company.
A two-volume report entitled " Report on the Northern Electric Railway and Branches, the Vallejo and Northern Railroad, and
the Sacramento Street Railways," not dated, carbon copy, by C. G. Young. Volume one consists of the text of the report, and
volume two contains maps and information on the various franchises in the Northern Electric system, principally the Sacramento
and Woodland, the Chico Electric, and the Sacramento and Eastern. The report also has information on the operations of the
Northern Electric's competitors and connections, principally the Western Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, and the California
Transportation Company steamer line.
Conditions Governing Use
1. 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
California--Sacramento
Yuba City (Calif.)
Marysville (Calif.)
Vallejo (Calif.)
Suisun (Calif.)
Fairfield (Calif.)
Vallejo and Northern Railroad
Sacramento Terminal Company
box 1, folder 1
Transfer ledger, 1912-1914
box 1, folder 2-3
Two-volume report entitled " Report on the Northern Electric Railway and Branches, the Vallejo and Northern Railroad, and
the Sacramento Street Railways," not dated
box 1, folder 4
Revaluation Inventory, Sacramento Terminal Company, June 30, 1913
box 1, folder 5
Miscellaneous records, 1913-1915:
Real estate account balance sheet, 1915
Real estate payment sheets, 1914-1915
Operating expenses, not dated
Road and equipment expenditures, not dated
Journal entry, April 1914
Journal vouchers, June and September 1913-February and March 1914
Cash vouchers and invoices, real estate sales, June 1913
Material requisition, January 1914
box 2, folder 1
Northern Electric agreements between Northern Electric Company and Yuba City Water Company license to cross right of way at
Yuba City with water main, June 1, 1907 and between Northern Electric Railway Company, Northern Realty Company, and Sutter
Drainage District, September 24, 1908
box 2, folder 2
Northern Electric, Ordinances:
Ordinance No. 27. Rights to construct, maintain and operate a railroad in Colusa, California. September 11, 1911
Ordinance No. 30. Rights to construct, maintain and operate a railroad in Colusa, California. September 10, 1912
Ordinance No. 157. Rights to construct, maintain and operate a single-track railroad in Marysville, California. August 19,
1913
Ordinance No. 184. Rights to construct, maintain and operate a single or double track railroad in Marysville, California.
June 15, 1922
Ordinance No. 747. Rights to construct, maintain and operate a single or double track railroad in Sacramento, California.
July 23, 1906
box 2, folder 2
Resolution granting rights to construct, maintain and operate a railroad in Fairfield, California. November 12, 1912
box 2, folder 3
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, correspondence between Northern Electric and various city officials, drawings of franchise
routes in Marysville and Colusa, 1915-1917
box 2, folder 4
Vallejo and Northern Railroad Company agreements:
box 2, folder 9-10
Journal entries, 1908-1909
box 2, folder 11
Statement of payrolls / payroll deductions, 1908-1909
box 3, folder 1
Cash book, Aug. 1905 - May 1906 [lists supplies and laborers]
