Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 1 half-box + 1 volume
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Background
- Scope and content:
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Accounting records include a journal, January 1907 to December 1917, forms in general account with Southern Pacific Company, 1907-1911 and circular No. 12 submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Division of Statistics, 1907-1918.
- Biographical / historical:
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Incorporated January 12, 1907. Formed by the Southern Pacific Company, this road was projected about twelve miles from Oroville westerly to Nelson. The company was merged in July, 1917, with the Southern Pacific Company, and no such railroad was built. [Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 400]
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives staff to arrange for access.
- Terms of access:
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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 Capital District Collections Manager. 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.
- Preferred citation:
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Oroville and Nelson Railroad Company records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073