Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Leonard T. Haug papers
- Dates:
- 1943 - 1950
- Abstract:
- This collection includes Leonard Haug's incoming and outgoing correspondence, miscellaneous research notes and manuscripts for several unpublished articles.
- Extent:
- .333 Linear Feet 1 manuscript box
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Leonard T. Haug Papers, MS 487, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes Leonard Haug's incoming and outgoing correspondence, miscellaneous research notes and manuscripts for several unpublished articles.
- Biographical / historical:
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Leonard Thaddeus Haug, was born on Jul. 27, 1921 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California to Thaddeus and Maries Haug. Haug had been employeed by Southern Pacific as a locomotive fireman in the San Joaquin Valley division, operating out of Bakersfield. Prior to his employement with Southern Pacific, he was employed by the Belt Line Railway in San Francisco and Alameda.
Haug was noted for his model railroad and was a graduate of University High School in Oakland. His father was the Assistant Marine Superintendent at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Alameda, California. Haug's great grandfather, Prof. T.S. C. Loewe, was a scientist and inventor who built the Mount Lowe Railway in Pasadena, California.
Haug, an amateur railroad photographer, collaborated with Paul Darrell on a book about Mexican railroads. Many of Mr. Haug's photographs appear in Gerald M. Best's MEXICAN NARROW GAUGE (1968).
He was killed in a hotel fire, August 20, 1949, at the Charles Hotel in Boston Bar, British Columbia. Flames swept through the 18-room, two-story structure, Boston Bar Hotel, located 90 airmiles northeast of Vancouver in the Fraser River Canyon.
His cremains were placed in the family memorial columbarium at the Oakland Crematorium.
- Acquisition information:
- These documents were inherited by Paul Darrell, whose collection was acquired by the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway Locomotive Historical Society and donated to the California State Railroad Museum.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged alphabetically by material type, then further arranged chronologically.
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collection Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-02-03 17:59:40 +0000 .
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:
-
[Identification of item], Leonard T. Haug Papers, MS 487, 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