Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Includes accounting records for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, Nevada-California-Oregon Realty and Sierra & Mohawk Railway. Records include: statement of accounts, journal entries, balance sheets of general ledgers, cash books, trial balances, and vouchers.
- Extent:
- 24 Linear Feet 23 boxes + 1 half-box + 1 volume
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Records, MS 131, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Includes accounting records for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, Nevada-California-Oregon Realty and Sierra & Mohawk Railway. Records include: statement of accounts, journal entries, balance sheets of general ledgers, cash books, trial balances, and vouchers.
- Biographical / historical:
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This company was organized on March 31, 1888. At one time projected as far north as The Dalles, Oregon, on the Columbia River, its trackage, originally three-foot gauge, extended 235.71 miles northwest from Reno, Nevada via Hackstaff, Wendel and Alturas, California to Lakeview, Oregon. It was constructed between 1880 and 1912. The Sierra & Mohawk Railway, incorporated June 14, 1911, formed part of the Nevada-California-Oregon (N-C-O) Sierra Valley Branch. Nevada-California-Oregon (N-C-O) ceased to exist as a corporate entitiy on March 19, 1946 after it was transferred to the Central Pacific Railway on March 19, 1946. [Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), pp. 387-388].
- Acquisition information:
- Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
- Processing information:
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Formerly part of MS 10
Original Inventory 1912 Assets and liabilities 1900-1917 Trial balances 1912 General balance sheets 1913-1915 Cash on hand 1901-1910 Trial balance 1904-1914 General balance sheet 1911-1918 Trial balance 1914-1915 Statement of accounts, by months 1915-1916 Journal entries 1915-1916 Statement of accounts 1916-1917 Journal entries 1916-1917 Statement of accounts 1917-1926 Balance sheet of general ledgers
- Arrangement:
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MS 131 is arranged into three series. Series 1. Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Series 2. Nevada-California-Oregon Realty Series 3. Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, including Sierra and Mohawk Railway
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collection Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Financial accounting
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. Permission for publication must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Records, MS 131, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073