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Series 1: Southern Pacific Railroad Records, 1915-1997, bulk 1956-1992

Scope and Contents

Material for the San Francisco District includes employee time claims and reports about accidents, fires, and injuries. Bayshore roundhouse records include lists of employee birthdays and train movements. Lombard station (Vallejo) records were collected by Michael Hayes while he was a train clerk for the station and include: clippings, consists, seniority lists, and station files which have detailed information about the requirements of the job that Hayes performed. St. Helena station records include applications for lease and licenses and locomotive enquiries.
Additional Southern Pacific freight office records are arranged at the end of this series by type of material and include or subject and include descriptions of accidents, blank freight forms, correspondence with Gerald Best and Guy Dunscomb about locomotive photographs, personnel and seniority lists, and lists of locomotives and trains.
 

San Francisco District, Road Foreman of Engines Records:

box 1, Folder 1-5

Accident and injury reports, 1957

box 1, Folder 6

Excessive speed reports, 1957

box 1, folder 7

Fires, 1957

box 1, folder 8

Special trains, 1957

box 1, folder 9-10

Situation reports, 1966-1969

box 1, folder 12

Time claims, 1957-1964

box 1, folder 13

Transportation personal injuries, comparative statement, Feb. 6, 1957

 

Bayshore Roundhouse Records:

box 2, folder 1

List of employee birthdays, Apr. 1965

box 2, folder 2

Train movements, 1966

 

Lombard Station (Vallejo, California):

box 2, folder 3

Clippings, 1961-1979

box 2, Folder 4

Consist for Santa's sleigh / Merry Christmas from the network control staff, 1992

box 2, folder 5

Master seniority list for clerks, 1978

box 2, Folder 6

Seniority roster for Martinez, Ozol, Pittsburg, Suisun-Fairfield, Lombard and Davis, 1982

box 2, Folder 7-8

Lombard station files, 1969-1979, 1987-1989

 

St. Helena Station Records:

box 2, folder 9-10

Applications for lease or license, 1959-1982

box 2, folder 11-12

Locomotive inquiry responses, 1983

 

General Southern Pacific Freight Office Records:

box 2, folder 13

Accidents

box 2, Folder 14

Blank forms

box 2, Folder 15

Correspondence about photograph collection, 1962-1963

box 2, folder 16

Daily data capture, Feb. 17, 1993

box 2, folder 17

Main line engineers list, 1917

box 2, folder 18-19

Locomotive lists and train lists, 1991-1997

box 2, folder 20

Locomotive retirement list, circa 1969

box 3, folder 1

Seniority list, Western Division engineers, Mar. 5, 1993

box 3, folder 2

Shipping orders, 1915

box 3, folder 3

SP Bulletin personnel excerpts, 1920-1928

box 3, folder 4

SP train orders, 1985 - Mar. 1986

box 3, folder 5-7

Western lines name book, May 7, 1985

 

Series 2. Railroad Ephemera, 1915-1990

Scope and Contents

Includes single items collected by Michael Hayes from other railroads including AMTRAK, Market St. Railway, Patterson and Western, Sacramento Northern , Sierra / Pickering Lumber Co., and Western Pacific railroads. Items include: periodicals INSIDE TRACK (Market St. Railway), LOCOMOTIVE NEWSLETTER AND LOCOMOTIVE NOTES, and EXTRA 2200, correspondence, promotional material, clippings and train orders. Includes correspondence about the acquisition of rolling stock by Project 2472 (Golden Gate Railroad Museum). Arranged alphabetically by railroad.
box 3, folder 8

Amtrak, 1st run of the San Joaquins promotional material, 1974

box 3, Folder 9

Market St. Railway, INSIDE TRACK magazine, Jul. 1928

box 3, folder 11

Patterson and Western Railroad clippings, 1963

box 3, Folder 12

Sacramento Northern correspondence, 1918

box 3, folder 13

Sierra Railroad and subsidiary Pickering Lumber Co. train orders, 1954-1955

box 3, Folder 14

Western Pacific correspondence, 1915-1918

box 3, Folder 15

LOCOMOTIVE NEWSLETTER and LOCOMOTIVE NOTES, 1958-1967

box 3, Folder 16

EXTRA 2200 SOUTH, Nov. 1965 - Sep. 1967

box 3, Folder 17

Project 2472 correspondence, 1990

Collection Contents
Series 1: Southern Pacific Railroad Records, 1915-1997, bulk 1956-1992
Series 2. Railroad Ephemera, 1915-1990
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