Guide to the Michael J. Hayes Papers MS 921
CSRM Library & Archives staff
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2023
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Michael J. Hayes papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS 921
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
3 archives boxes
Date (inclusive): 1915-1997
Date (bulk): 1957-1992
Abstract: Includes records assembled by Michael J. Hayes, a freight clerk working at Southern Pacific Railroad's Lombard station in
Napa County, California during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Some of these document his career with Southern Pacific. Also includes
select records of L.E. Proudfit, Road Foreman of Engines, San Francisco District, 1957-1964, J.R. Hickey, Bayshore roundhouse,
and St. Helena freight agent J. Closterman, 1959-1983.
Physical Location: Statewide Museum Collections Center: I2.212.U8
Language of Material:
English
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Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions apply. Contact Library Staff for details.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Michael J. Hayes, 2022
Arrangement
This collection has been arranged into the following series:
Series 1. Southern Pacific records,
Series 2. Railroad ephemera, 1915-1988
Biography
Michael Hayes was a train clerk in the Southern Pacific freight department at Lombard station in Vallejo between 1969 and
1982.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. Permission for publication must be submitted in writing
to the CSRM Library & Archives.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Southern Pacific Railroad. Western Division
Seniority List
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Freight Department
Proudfit, L. E.
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 9-10
Situation reports, 1966-1969
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
Lombard Station (Vallejo, California):
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 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 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
