Guide to the Joy Marie Doyle Papers MS 648
CSRM Library & Archives
2023
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2024 revision
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Joy Marie Doyle papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS 648
Physical Description:
1.67 Linear Feet
1 record carton + 1 OV box
Date (inclusive): 1946-2019
Abstract: These papers document the professional, academic, and personal achievements of California Department of Transportation Rail
Consultant Joy Doyle.
Physical Location: Statewide Museum Collections Center: I2.212.R7
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Joy Marie Doyle, 2023.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject. Reports and contracts are arranged chronologically.
Biography
Joy Doyle was an employee of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for over 30 years who was a pioneeer in
Caltrans rail activities. She began working for Caltrans as a clerk typist in February 1964 and then went to work as a Management
Services Technician and Accounting Technician in September 1969. In 1981 she finished school and was promoted to Transportation
Planner in the Division of Mass Transportation where she worked in the Office of Rail.
Between 1982 and 1984, Doyle attended the University of California Extension Institute of Transportation Studies and in 1984
and successfully completed the Rail Transportation Certificate Program. She was promoted to Associate Transportation Planner
in 1985, to Railroad Consultant I in January 1986 and to Railroad Consultant II in November 1990. She retired from Caltrans
as the Chief of the Equipment Procurement Branch in 1993.
Her many accomplishments include capital projects for the Peninsula Commute Service and the "San Joaquin" and "San Diegan"
Amtrak services. She was the lead person for the development of a specification and the bidding procedures for Caltrans' first
purchase of rolling stock and secured 100 million dollars of funds for the purchase. She focused on providing handicapped
accessibility on these cars, which reulted in the design of the most advanced rail passenger toilet in the world. She developed
a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program to comply with federal requirements.
She recognized the benefit of having a child care facility close to Caltrans headquarters and in addition to her other responsibilities,
Doyle served as Caltrans Childcare Coordinator from 1986 to 1990. She was on the first board of directors responsible for
creating the DOT TOT Center, a non-profit childcare center for Caltrans employees located at 12th and Q Streets in Sacramento
and another at the Alma St. Multi-Model Transportation Center in San Jose. In 1989, she won a Certificate of Achievement from
the Metropolitan Transit Commissions Awards Program for her extensive studies and lectures on the impact of childcare on parents'
transportation choices. Beginning in 1992, she was a member of the Sacramento Region Childcare coalition. She retired from
Caltrans in 1993.
Community activities included serving the Legislative Committee of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, serving on
the Board of Directors for the Modern Transit Society and the Sacramento Natural Foods Cooperative, and Advisor for the Caltrans
Women's Council, a Program Chair and editor for Sacramento Business and Professional Women and with the Coalition of Women
in State Service.In 1983, she received the Woman of the Year Award from the Sacramento Business & Professional Women's Club
for her "exceptional qualities of leadership" and "distinguished achievements for the betterment of her community."
Joy was married to Jake, and had five children: Stephanie, Phillip, Geoffrey, Wesley, and Patrick. She was born in San Bernardino
County, California, on Mar. 30, 1932.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Joy Marie Doyle Papers, MS 648, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento,
California.
Scope and Contents
These papers document the professional, academic, and personal achievements of California Department of Transportation Rail
Consultant Joy Doyle. Material includes a resume and a detailed description of her accomplishments while working at Caltrans,
diplomas, certificates of training and student achievement awards beginning in 8th grade and continuing throughout her career,
memos praising her work at Caltrans, and photographs and notes from her trips to Japan for Caltrans in 1986 and 1991. There
are several reports, including two volumes of contracts for the procurement of passenger rail cars for commuter and intercity
service aka. "The California Car" and the requirements and specifications for it, which Mrs. Doyle developed. A file about
her efforts to study the effects of child care on mass transporation and her efforts to open day care center for Caltrans
employees in Sacramento and one for in Santa Clara cincludes correspondence, articles, clippings, and a speech she gave on
this topic.
A scrapbook Mrs. Doyle kept between 1981 and 1994 includes clippings, memos and correspondence about her accomplishments.
There is also a series of her letters to the editorial pages of The Sacramento Bee in 1981 advocating the equal treatment
of women in the workforce. There is a file of 33 years of correspondence with Y. (Frank) Mochizuki, the President of Nippon
Sharyo, U.S.A. who she met on her first trip to Japan to look at car designs for the California car. Another file includes
photographs and description of her trips to Japan in 1986 and 1991 for Caltrans.
Separated Materials
Photographs of the opening of the DOT TOT Center, group photographs of DOT personnel including Joy, including several taken
in front of the "California train" and Amtrak locomotive No. 363 have been transferred to the CSRM oversize photograph collection.
This includes a side view of Cal Train 900.
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
California. Division of Mass Transportation
California. Department of Mass Transportation. Child Care Co-ordinator
Amtrak
California. Division of Rail
Sacramento Regional Child Care Coaltion
DOT TOT Center
box 2
Artistic rendering of locomotive No. 909 "Menlo Park"
box 1, Folder 2
Caltrain equipment inaugural run, Jun. 12, 1985
box 1, folder 3
Caltrans "California Car" ceremony, Oct. 1994
box 2
Showing the development of the Alma Street child care station, Aug. 1988 - Sep. 1990
box 2
Showing the schedule for purchase of the San Francisco / San Jose peninsula commute new rail passenger cars, Mar. 1982 - Oct.
1982
box 1
Caltrans reports and contracts:
box 1, folder 5
Contract No. 64-945: To furnish and deliver stainless steel gallery trailer and cab control, Apr. 15, 1983
box 1, folder 6
"Status report on the sale and leaseback of all the rail vehicles purchased by Caltrans for the San Francisco Peninsula Rail
Commute Service as of Dec. 31, 1987
box 1, folder 7
Booz-Allan & Hamilton Inc., "Requirements for the California Car: Final report", Feb. 14, 1991
box 1, folder 8
Booz-Allan & Hamilton Inc., "Appendix A: Overview of Japanese & European rail car features", Jun. 10, 1991
box 1, folder 9
Booz-Allan & Hamilton Inc., "New technologies for California passenger rail services: Final report", Oct. 1991
box 10-11
"Contract No. 75-92001: For procurement of passenger rail cars for commuter and intercity service", Volumes 1 and 2, Jan.
24, 1992
box 1, Folder 12
Joy Marie Doyle, "Accessibility on rail procurements" [for California Car], [1993-1994]
box 1, folder 13
Department of Transportation TOT Center, 1983-2003
box 2
DOT TO Center Bear Hug of Honor reward, Aug 24, 1984
box 1, folder 14, box 2
Certificate of achievement, Sep. 26, 1989
box 1, folder 15-16
Correspondence with Y. Frank Mochizuki, 1986-2019
box 1, Folder 17
Educational certificates, 1946-1989
box 2
Resolution by the California Legislature commending Joy Doyle and wishing her a good retirement, Sep. 22, 1993
box 1, folder 18
Resume and career information, 1967-1993
box 2
Retirement wishes from Alcoa staff
box 1, folder 20
Trips to Japan for Caltrans, 1986
box 1, folder 21
Trip to Tokushima, Japan for Caltrans photos, 1991
box 2
Woman of the year award, Sacramento Business & Professional Women's Club, Oct. 25, 1983
