Frank R. King, Jr. papers, 1952-2005

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Summary

Abstract:
These papers document the career of conductor and brakeman Frank R. King Jr. during his 42-year career with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway at Bakersfield, California. They include King's time books, conductors train records, time records, and various publications related to his work.
Extent:
2 Linear Feet 6 manuscript boxes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Frank R. King, Jr. Papers, MS 902, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

These papers document the career of conductor and brakeman Frank R. King Jr. during his 42-year career with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway at Bakersfield, California. They include King's time books, time records, conductors train records and various publications related to his work. Publications include: Santa Fe instructions, rules, car line identity codes (CLIC) and lists of stations. Also includes pamphlets published by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Southern Pacific Company. There are also some clippings from 2005 pertaining to King's graduation from Cal State Bakerfield and his recovery from a stroke. There is a photograph of Mr. King taken in his Marine Corps uniform circa 1950 and another of him taken at his graduation ceremony.

Biographical / historical:

Frank R. King, Jr. was born in 1930. His family moved frequently, and he attended 38 schools across Kansas, Colorado, California, and Oregon before graduating from high school in Canon City, Colorado. He had two daughters: Linda Jo, from his first marriage to Verona Levine, and Dixie, from his marriage to Rose Koehler as well as two stepdaughters from this marriage: Sylvia and Patricia afrom his marriage to Rose. Mr. King served in the Marine Corps fighting in Korea. In 1954, shortly after his second marriage, Frank and his family moved to Bakersfield, California, where Frank worked for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway for the next 42 years. He became an avid fraveller after Rose's death in 1974. In 1997, after retiring from the railroad, King enrolled at Bakersfield College and transferred to Cal State, Bakerfield, where he received a BA in History in 2005. He died on March 13, 2014.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Dixie King, 2014
Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

Physical location:
Statewide Museum Collections Center: I2.212.R6
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.

Terms of access:

Copyright has been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. Permission for publication must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library amp; Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Frank R. King, Jr. Papers, MS 902, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:
111 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Contact:
(916) 323-8073
Library.CSRM@parks.ca.gov
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