Diesel Power Postcard and Photograph Album, circa 1950-1979

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Diesel Power postcard and photograph album
Dates:
circa 1950-1979
Creators:
Abstract:
Extent:
1 album
Language:
Preferred citation:

Diesel Power postcard and photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Background

Scope and content:

Includes photographs of diesel locomotives showing color schemes for the Bicentennial diesel, the General Motor's EMD Fs, General Electric U-boats, Alco PAs, and Baldwin engines. Railroads are primarily from the Eastern and Midwestern United States and include Erie Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, Delaware and Hudson, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, Illinois Central, New York Central, Norfolk and Western, and Pennsylvania Railroad, but also includes the Sierra Railway in California.

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Diesel locomotives

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives staff.
Date Prepared:
circa 1950-1979
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research

Terms of access:

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 Librarian. 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:

Diesel Power postcard and photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Location of this collection:
111 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Contact:
(916) 323-8073