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Title: F. F. Donahue documents
Dates: 1922-1925
Collection Number: MS 476
Creator/Collector:
Donahue, F.F.
Extent: 1 oversize box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: One ledger and one leather folio containing technical diagrams and written material that may have been answers to tests given
by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for machinist apprentices. Test subjects include: Santa Fe locomotive rules, trucks, throttle,
pistons, safety, lettering, axles and crank pin, construction problems, nuts, washers and bolts, brakes, estimating dimensions,
spring dividers, air pumps and other parts of a locomotive.
Language of Material: English
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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 Archivist. 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.
F. F. Donahue documents. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Gift of Norma Funderburk, 1987
Scope and Content of Collection
One ledger and one leather folio containing technical diagrams and written material that may have been answers to tests given
by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for machinist apprentices. Test subjects include: Santa Fe locomotive rules, trucks, throttle,
pistons, safety, lettering, axles and crank pin, construction problems, nuts, washers and bolts, brakes, estimating dimensions,
spring dividers, air pumps and other parts of a locomotive.