Guide to the California State Railroad Museum Subject Files MS 868

Library & Archives staff
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2023


Contributing Institution: California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: California State Railroad Museum subject files
Identifier/Call Number: MS 868
Physical Description: 4 Linear Feet 3 file cabinets
Date (inclusive): 1874-2008
Abstract: California State Railroad Museum Subject Files is an assembled collection of newspaper articles and clippings pertaining to various railroad related subjects. The collection contains files about general subjects, people (biographical files), fairs / expositions, and locations.
Language of Material: English

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research by appointment.

Accruals

Future accruals are expected.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Items were acquired through multiple donations.

Arrangement

MS 861 is arranged into four series:
Series 1: General Subject Files Series 2: Biographical Files Series 3: Fairs and Expositions Series 4: Locations

History of the Subject Files

The California State Railroad Museum Subject Files are a collection of miscellaneous subjects assembled by the California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives' staff since it opened in 1981. The purpose of this collection was to gather loose items relevant to specific railroad topics, and to make them accessible to researchers interested in a particular subject.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], California State Railroad Museum Subject Files, MS 868, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Related Materials

See also the California State Railroad Museum Corporate Miscellany Collection (MS 861), which also contains subject files on specific railroads.

Scope and Contents

The California State Railroad Museum Subject Files is an assembled collection of newspaper articles and clippings pertaining to various railroad related topics, locations, people, and events. Most items are not original (i.e. photocopies), and the content is not always complete due to it being compiled of multiple small donations.

Conditions Governing Use

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 Library & Archives. 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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Biographical files
Exhibitions
Fairs
Subject files
Locations

 

Series 1: General Subject Files

Scope and Contents

Major subjects in the series include boats, diversity, electric railroads, freight service, hobos, land grants, diesel and steam locomotives, model railroading, movies, the Pacific Railroad (i.e. Transcontinental Railroad), railway mail and other services, freight cars, stagecoaches, surveying, tourist railroads, and war efforts.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
 

Abandonments

 

Accidents

 

Accidents – Pre-Arranged

 

Accidents – Pre-Arranged. California State Fair

 

Advanced Passenger Train (APT)

 

Advertising

 

Advertising, RR

 

Agriculture

 

Air Brakes

 

Aluminum

 

Animals

 

Architecture

 

Art, RR

 

Asbestos

 

Auctions

 

Automobiles

 

Baggage Service

 

Battle of New Orleans Day

 

Bearings

 

Bells

 

Bibliography

 

Bicycle Railroad

 

Boats (1 of 2)

 

Boats (2 of 2)

 

Boilers

 

Bottles

 

Bridges

 

Bridges, Builders

 

Bridges, California

 

Bridges, California, Sacramento

 

Bridges, California, San Francisco Golden Gate

 

Bridges, California, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

 

Buses

 

Buses, History

 

Buttons

 

Cable Cars, RR

 

Campaign trains

 

Canals

 

Cartoons

 

Cemeteries

 

Centralized Traffic Control

 

Children

 

Children's Literature

 

China

 

Chinese

 

Chinese – Hanging Baskets

 

Churches, RR

 

Circus Trains

 

City Directories

 

Civil Engineering

 

Coal

 

Collectibles

 

Comic Books

 

Commuter Railroad

 

Concrete

 

Couplers

 

Crew Laws

 

Currency

 

Dates

 

Design

 

Education

 

Electric Railroads (1 of 2)

 

Electric Railroads (2 of 2)

 

Elevated Railroads

 

Employee Benefits

 

Events – 1922 Railroad Strike 1922

 

Exhibits

 

Fares

 

Finance

 

Flags

 

Flatware

 

Folklore

 

Freight Service (1 of 2)

 

Freight Service (2 of 2)

 

Fuels

 

Funeral Trains

 

Funicular Railroad

 

Games

 

Gauge

 

Graphic Arts

 

Gravity Vacuum Transit (GVT)

 

High speed trains

 

Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Buildings Survey

 

Historic Societies – RR

 

Hobos (1 of 3)

 

Hobos (2 of 3)

 

Hobos (3 of 3)

 

Horse Car

 

Hospitals

 

Hotels/Motels

 

Injectors

 

Insulators

 

Japanese

 

Keys

 

Labor

 

Land Grants (1 of 2)

 

Land Grants (2 of 2)

 

Law Enforcement

 

Libraries

 

Lighting

 

Locomotive Builders

 

Locomotives – Diesel (1 of 3)

 

Locomotives – Diesel (2 of 3)

 

Locomotives – Diesel (3 of 3)

 

Locomotives – Gas Turbine

 

Locomotives – Steam (1 of 3)

 

Locomotives – Steam (2 of 3)

 

Locomotives – Steam (3 of 3)

 

Locomotives – Steam Dummies

 

Logging (1 of 2)

 

Logging (2 of 2)

 

Logos

 

Loops

 

Maps (RR)

 

Mass Transit

 

Mexican Americans

 

Military Railroads

 

Mining

 

Missions

 

Model Railroads

 

Model Railroading (1 of 2)

 

Model Railroading (2 of 2)

 

Monorails

 

Movies (1 of 2)

 

Movies (2 of 2)

 

Music

 

Nails

 

Name Trains

 

Narrow Gauge

 

Native Americans

 

Orient Express

 

Orphan Trains

 

Pacific Railroad (1 of 2)

 

Pacific Railroad (2 of 2)

 

Pacific Railway Surveys 1853-1855 1853-1855

 

Passenger Travels

 

Passes

 

RR: Paint

 

Periodicals (1 of 2)

 

Periodicals (2 of 2)

 

Personnel

 

Philatelic

 

Photography

 

Playing Cards

 

Plays

 

Poetry

 

Pony Express

 

Popular Culture

 

Postcards

 

Preservation

 

Presidential Trains

 

Prismoidal Railways

 

Private Cars

 

Pulp Magazines

 

Radio Frequencies

 

Rail (1 of 2)

 

Rail (2 of 2)

 

Railfans

 

Railroadiana Shows

 

Railway Mail

 

Railway Mail Services (1 of 4)

 

Railway Mail Services (2 of 4)

 

Railway Services (3 of 4)

 

Railway Services (4 of 4)

 

Rails to Trails

 

Rapid Transit

 

Recipes

 

Religion

 

Restaurants

 

Rolling Stock

 

Rolling Stock: Boulders

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Cabooses

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Cars (1 of 2)

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Cars (2 of 2)

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Car – Fish

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Car – Flat

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Car – Gondola

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Car – Hopper

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Car – "Piggy Backs," Intermodal , Container

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Car – Refrigerator

 

Rolling Stock: Freight Tank

 

Rolling Stock: Maintenance of Way

 

Rolling Stock: Passenger Baggage

 

Rolling Stock: Passenger Cars

 

Rolling Stock: Passenger Cars - Immigrant

 

Rolling Stock: Passenger Chapel Cars

 

Rolling Stock: Passenger Dining

 

Rosters

 

Roundhouses

 

Rugs

 

Russia Iron

 

Safety

 

San Francisco Earthquake

 

Shops

 

Short Line Railroads

 

Signals

 

Silk Trains

 

Slang

 

Smoke Stacks

 

Social History

 

Speed Records

 

Spikes

 

Stagecoaches (1 of 2)

 

Stagecoaches (2 of 2)

 

Staggers Act

 

Standards

 

Stationary Steam Engines

 

Stations

 

Stations, California

 

Steam

 

Stocks and Bonds

 

Streetcars

 

Strikes

 

Surveying (1 of 2)

 

Surveying (2 of 2)

 

Tariffs

 

Telegraphy

 

Television Shows

 

Theater

 

Tickets

 

Timekeeping

 

Timetables

 

Tokens

 

Tools

 

Tourist Railroads (1 of 2)

 

Tourist Railroads (2 of 2)

 

Toy Trains

 

Track Cars

 

Trains: Passengers

 

Trains: Special Flying Scotsmen

 

Trains: Special Royal Scot

 

Travel Guides

 

Trucks: Automotive

 

Trucks: Locomotive

 

Tunnels

 

Turntables

 

Uniforms

 

Union Stations

 

Union Stations: Connecticut to New London

 

Union Stations: District of Columbia, Washington

 

Union Stations: New York – Albany

 

Union Stations: Ohio – Cincinnati

 

Union Stations: Ohio – Cleveland

 

Union Stations: Oregon – Portland

 

Union Stations: Tennessee – Nashville

 

Union Stations: Utah – Ogden

 

Unions

 

Valuation

 

Videos

 

War Efforts: 1861-1865 Civil war 1861-1865

 

War Efforts: 1914-1918 World War I 1914-1918

 

War Efforts: 1939-1945 World War II (1 of 2) 1939-1945

 

War Efforts: 1939-1945 World War II (2 of 2) 1939-1945

 

Water

 

Wheels

 

Whistles

 

Windmills

 

Women

 

Women in the Railroad

 

Wood

 

Series 2: Biographical Files

Scope and Contents

Series 2 consists of an assembled collection of biographical files related to people involved with the railroad. Major names in the series relate to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, including Grenville Mellen Dodge, Charles and Edwin Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, Theodore Judah, Alfred Hart, Andrew J. Russell, Leland Stanford, and J. H. Strobridge. Other prominent names include Walt Disney, Edward Henry Harriman, Fred Harvey, Casey Jones, Walter E. Scott (aka "Death Valley Scotty"), Andrew J. Stevens, George Westinghouse, Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.
Arranged alphabetically.
 

Abdill, George B.

 

Ahern, Thomas P., and Edward P.

 

Alexander, Edwin P.

 

Allen, Haratio

 

Anargyros, Spero

 

Andrews, James J.

 

Anschutz, Philip

 

Armitage, Al

 

Armitage, Merle

 

Arone, Fred

 

Aszman, Rod Richard

 

Athearn, Robert G.

 

Atkins, Alan

 

Awdry, W.A.

 

Baldwin, Matthias W.

 

Bancroft, Hubert Howe

 

Banning, Phineas

 

Barriger, John Walker

 

Beebe, L. and Clegg, C.

 

Beier, Glenn

 

Belden, Josiah

 

Bell, Alexander Graham

 

Bell, J. Snowden

 

Bender, Henry E., Jr.

 

Best, Gerald M.

 

Biaggini, Benjamin F.

 

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan

 

Blaine, James G.

 

Bloom, Karl E.

 

Blum, Bernard

 

Bonestell, Chresley

 

Bollinger, Edward T.

 

Bollman, Wendell

 

Boxcar, Willie

 

Boyton, James Earle

 

Bracken, Peter James

 

Brien, Theo (Theodore Brien de Desrochers)

 

Brown, George Ransom

 

Brown, William C.

 

Brueckman, Henry

 

Burman, Shirley

 

Butler, Robert H.

 

Cafky, Morris

 

Calvin, E.E.

 

Carafeno, Patsy

 

Carbutt, John

 

Carlberg, R.A. Jamie

 

Caruso, Mario

 

Cash, Johnny

 

Champlin, C.W.

 

Chess, T. Louis

 

Church, Robert

 

Claytor, Graham

 

Cleaveland, Norman

 

Clement, Lewis M.

 

Coffin, Isaac

 

Collier, Harold C.

 

Colter, Mary

 

Conde, Jay

 

Congdon, Dutch

 

Cooper, Peter

 

Corbett, James

 

Corliss, Carlton J.

 

Corcoran, Thomas

 

Corning, Erastus

 

Cottingham, Robert

 

Cox, Lyman E.

 

Cox, S.L.

 

Crocker, Charles F.

 

Crocker, Edwin B.

 

Cronkhite, Minton

 

Crossen, Forest

 

Dalton Gang

 

Davies, Owen

 

Davis, David L.

 

Dean, Walter

 

DeAutremont Brothers

 

Deaver, Mrs. Hewlett

 

Delano, Jack

 

Demoro, Harre

 

Demoro, Rafael

 

DeMoss, Alan

 

Dickerman, William Carter

 

Diesel, Rudolf

 

Dingley, Nathaniel

 

Diridon, Ron

 

Disney, Walt

 

Dodge, Grenville Mellen

 

Dolzall, Gary W., and Stephen F.

 

Donahue, Peter, James and Michael

 

Downing, Robert W.

 

Droege, John

 

Drury, George H.

 

Dubin, Arthur

 

Duke, Donald

 

Duncan, Frank

 

Dunscomb, Guy L.

 

Edison, Buell L.

 

Edison, Thomas

 

Eggelston, Charles L.

 

Ellington, Frank

 

Elliott, Howard

 

Fallberg, Carl

 

Farrington, S. Kip

 

Ferrell, Mallory Hope

 

Fink, Albert

 

Fisher, Kay and Bill

 

Fisk, Pliny

 

Flagler, Henry Morrison

 

Fletcher, Bill

 

Fogg, Howard

 

Folkes, Robert

 

Fonks, Harold W.

 

Ford, Frances M.

 

Forney, M.N.

 

Foster, A.W.

 

Fox, Wesley

 

Fremont, John C.

 

Friedrich, Herman

 

Fuller, William Allen

 

Garcia, Jesus

 

Gardner, John

 

Garratt, Colin

 

Garrett, John Work

 

Germann, Carl

 

Giannini, Amadeo Peter

 

Gildersleeve, Tom

 

Goldberg, Paul

 

Gordon, William R.

 

Gould, George

 

Gould, Jay

 

Graham, Maury (King of the Hobos)

 

Graham, Thomas

 

Grant, H. Roger

 

Graves, Roy Daniel

 

Grier, William Milton

 

Griffiths, H.R.

 

Grodinsky, Julius

 

Gross, Michael

 

Gruber, John

 

Guido, Francis A.

 

Gustafson, Lee

 

Gzowski, Casimir S.

 

Hadler, Robert "Red"

 

Hagle, Clif

 

Hall, James

 

Hallidie, Andrew Smith

 

Hanft, Robert

 

Hanks, Henry G.

 

Haraszthy, Agoston

 

Harlan, George

 

Harriman, Edward Henry (1 of 2)

 

Harriman, Edward Henry (2 of 2)

 

Harris, William T.

 

Hart, Alfred

 

Harvey, Fred

 

Haynes, Frank Jay

 

Hazeltine, M.M.

 

Heath, Erle

 

Henry, John

 

Hewes, David

 

Hill, Bern

 

Hill, James J.

 

Hilton, George W.

 

Hinckley, Helen

 

Hinton, Walter Haskell

 

Hinze, Robert D.

 

Hoehn, Charles J.

 

Hofsommer, Don L.

 

Holbrook, Stewart H.

 

Holland, Rupert Sargent

 

Holland, Thomas

 

Holliday, Cyrus K.

 

Hood, William

 

Hopkins, Mark

 

Horgan, Paul

 

Howard, Barry

 

Hull, Arundel

 

Hungerford, Edward

 

Hungerford, Jim

 

Hungerford, John B.

 

Huntington, Archer M.

 

Huntington, Collis P.

 

Huntington, Henry Edwards

 

Huston, Harvey

 

Jackson, Joseph Henry

 

Jackson, William Henry

 

James, Arthur Curtis

 

Janney, Eli

 

Jenevein, Dick

 

Jensen, Larry

 

Johnson, Bros.

 

Johnson, Hiram

 

Johnson, Olly

 

Johnston, Hank

 

Jones, Billy

 

Jones, Casey (1 of 4)

 

Jones, Casey (2 of 4)

 

Jones, Casey (3 of 4)

 

Jones, Casey (4 of 4)

 

Jones, Howard Wright

 

Jones, Janie

 

Jones, Kenneth Westcott

 

Jones, Richard W.

 

Judah, Theodore

 

Jukes, M. Fred

 

Kahn, Edgar

 

Kalmbach, A.C.

 

Karnahan, Patrick

 

Kemble, John Hasking

 

Kenefick, John

 

Kennedy, Gladys M. (Sis)

 

Kibbey, Mead

 

Kimball, Frererick J.

 

Kimball, Ward

 

Kindig, R.H.

 

Kistler, Stan

 

Klein, Maury

 

Kneiss, Gilbert

 

Knowles, Arthur T.

 

Koch, Michael

 

Koenigsberg, Victor

 

Kotowski, M.F.

 

Kratville, W.W.

 

Kuhler, Otto

 

Kyle, Willis B.

 

Lathrop, Benjamin G.

 

Lavallee, Omer S.A.

 

Lawrence and Houseworth

 

Lawson, Archie

 

Lee, Jake

 

Leeman, Adelbert E.

 

Leete, Benjamin Franklin

 

Leslie, Frank

 

Levenson, Roger

 

Lewis, Herschel Mayo

 

Lewis, Oscar

 

Lincoln, Abraham

 

Lind, Richard F.

 

Link, O. Winston

 

Lloyd, Arthur

 

Loewy, Raymond

 

Logan, Maurice

 

Lomazzi, Brad

 

Lucas, Walter Arndt

 

Ludlow, Warren Scott Jr.

 

Lyons, Alva F.

 

MacQuarrie, John A.

 

Maiken, Peter

 

Maker, Ray

 

Martin, Hugh G.

 

Mason, William

 

Matthews, Fred

 

Matz, Jake

 

McCaleb, Willis (Bill)

 

McClintock, Harry K.

 

McConaughy, Charles T.

 

McFarland, Robert

 

McGinnis, Felix

 

McLeod, Duncan A. Jr.

 

McMillan, Robert Taylor

 

McQueen, Walter

 

Mears, Otto

 

Meeks, Carroll L.

 

Mellen, James H.

 

Merritt, Stanley F.

 

Merritt, Warren Chase

 

Miller, Franflin

 

Miller, Joseph S.

 

Miller, Warren E.

 

Millholland, James

 

Mills, E.V.

 

Miner, Bill

 

Mitchell, Alexander

 

Montague, Samuel

 

Morgan, David P.

 

Mott, William Penn

 

Moylan, Marjorie M.

 

Munson, Harry Carl

 

Muybridge, Edweard

 

Myrick, David F.

 

Nathan, Adele

 

Neal, Dorothory Jensen

 

Neasham, V. Aubrey

 

Nichols, William

 

Norris, Frank

 

Norton, William Leander

 

Obletz, Peter

 

Oden, William G.

 

Orsi, Richard J.

 

Osborn, William Henry

 

Osmundson, Gordon

 

O'Sullivan

 

Ovadek, Martin

 

Palmer, William Jackson

 

Palmquist, Peter E.

 

Parkinson, Robert Lewis

 

Parks, William R.

 

Parmelee, Robert and Franklin

 

Pedersen, Richard

 

Pegler, Alan

 

Pennoyer, A. Sheldon

 

Perles, Anthony Herschel

 

Perris, Fred T.

 

Peterson, H.C.

 

Plowden, David

 

Pond, C. L.

 

Poor, M.C.

 

Porterfield, James

 

Pratt, L.S.

 

Prindiville, James

 

Quinby, E. Jay

 

Randolph. A. Phillip

 

Raub, Henry

 

Raymond, Walter

 

Reagan, Ronald

 

Reid, Gil

 

Reilly, J.J.

 

Reiss, Winold

 

Richardson, Robert W.

 

Richardson, William

 

Richter, Douglas

 

Ripley, Edward Patson

 

Robinson, Moncure

 

Robinson, Robert

 

Rogers, Henry H.

 

Roman, Thom

 

Root, Henry

 

Ropinski, F.H.

 

Rose, Alfred

 

Rose, Ted

 

Ross, John Simpson

 

Roxbury, L.E.

 

Runte, Alfred

 

Russell, Andrew J. (1 of 2)

 

Russell, Andrew J. (2 of 2)

 

Russell, D. J.

 

Sandberg, C.P.

 

Sappers, Vernon

 

Satow, Michael

 

Savage, Charles

 

Scott, Edward Bunker

 

Scott, Walter E. "Death Valley Scotty" (1 of 2)

 

Scott, Walter E. "Death Valley Scotty" (2 of 2)

 

Sessions, D.R.

 

Shaugnesy, Jim

 

Shaw, Frederic

 

Shaw, Nelson T.

 

Shay, Ephraim

 

Shelley, Kate

 

Sheridan, Hiram W.

 

Sheridan, Hugh G.

 

Sherman, William Tecumseh

 

Silverthorn, W. A.

 

Smallwood, Charles A.

 

Smith, Donald Alexander

 

Smith, Francis Marion

 

Soule, Frank

 

Soule, Thayer

 

Spreckles, Claus

 

Staff, Virgil

 

Stanford, Leland

 

Starbuck, G.F.

 

Statzell, J.C.

 

Stauber, Jerry

 

Staufer, Alvin F.

 

Stefani, Terry

 

Stein, Louis

 

Steinheimer, Richard

 

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus

 

Stephenson, Dante

 

Stephenson, Dick

 

Stephenson, Robert Louis

 

Stevens, Andrew J.

 

Stevens, John

 

Stilgoe, John R.

 

Stindt, Fred

 

Strapac, Joe

 

Strobridge, J.H.

 

Strong, Daniel W. "Doc"

 

Sullivan, Arthur

 

Sullivan, Jerry A.

 

Swan, Robert J.

 

Swett, Ira

 

Symmes, Richard W.

 

Taber, I.W.

 

Taber, Thomas T.

 

Teller, Griff

 

Terry, David

 

Thompson, Brian

 

Thompson, Gregory Lee

 

Thorpe, Jim

 

Tibbitts, Howard C.

 

Tigrett, Isaac Burton

 

Tilleys, William

 

Towler, E.C.

 

Travis, Broley E.

 

Trott, Charles C.

 

Truman, Benjamin C.

 

Turner, Harold J.

 

Vanderbilt, Cornelius "Commodore"

 

Van Horne, William Cornelius

 

Vauclain, Samuel M.

 

Vollrath, Harold K.

 

Vranich, Joseph

 

Ward, Richard

 

Watkins, Carleton

 

Wayner, Robert J.

 

Webb, Simeon T. "Sim"

 

Wedlock, Walter J.

 

Weidnaar, Reynold

 

Weitzman, David

 

Welch, Benjamin

 

Welch, David J.

 

Wells, Clarence

 

Wells, Reuben

 

West, Robert

 

Westinghouse, George (1 of 2)

 

Westinghouse, George (2 of 2)

 

Weston, David

 

Whitaker, Rogers E.M.

 

White, John H.

 

Wiener, Lionel

 

Whittaker, Will C.

 

Willard, Daniel

 

Williams, John Ernest

 

Williamson, Frederick Ely

 

Winfield, John

 

Wiswell, Gregg W.

 

Witbeck, C.W.

 

Withun, William

 

Wolfson, Mitchell Jr.

 

Woods, Granville T.

 

Woods, John

 

Woolsey, Elliot Hartman, Dr.

 

Wooster, Clarence M.

 

Wright, Richard K.

 

Wurm, Theodore G. "Ted"

 

Yrekes, CharlesTyson

 

Yungling, Don

 

Ziel, Ron

 

Zimmerman, Gordon

 

Series 3: Fairs and Expositions 1874-2008

Scope and Contents

Major exhibitions and fairs in the series include the San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915), Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940), New York World's Fair (1940), and the Chicago Railroad Fair (1948-1949).
Arranged chronologically, except for files spanning multiple years which have been put at the front of the series.
 

Fairs (General Information)

 

International Rail Fair (Models) 1978-1986

 

Trade Shows / Fairs 1971-1991

 

Winter Rail 1978-1986

 

1874 – Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago 1874-09-09 - 1874-10-10

 

1876 – Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, PA 1876

 

1893 – World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL 1893

 

1894 – California Midwinter International Exposition 1894

 

1900 – Paris Exhibition 1900

 

1904 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, MO 1904

 

1905 – Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, OR 1905-06-01 - 1905-10-15

 

1907 – Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk, VA 1907-04-26 - 1907-11-30

 

1909 – Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, WA 1909-06-01 - 1909-10-15

 

1915 – Panama California Exposition, San Diego, CA 1915

 

1915 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA (1 of 4) 1915-01-15 - 1915-12-04

 

1915 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA (2 of 4) 1915-01-15 - 1915-12-04

 

1915 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA (3 of 4) 1915-01-15 - 1915-12-04

 

1915 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA (4 of 4) 1915-01-15 - 1915-12-04

 

1921 – Pacific Northwest Foreign Trade Conference, Tacoma, WA 1921-12-15 - 1921-12-16

 

1922 – Montana State Fair, Helena, MT 1922-09-25 - 1922-09-30

 

1927 – The Fair of the Iron Horse, Baltimore and Ohio Centenary Exhibition and Pageant, Baltimore, MD 1927-09-24 - 1927-10-08

 

1930 – California Fairs and Festivals 1930

 

1933 – Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, IL 1933

 

1935 – Western Railroad Week 1935

 

1935-1939 – California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, CA 1935-05-29 - 1939-09-09

 

1936 – Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, OH 1936-06-27 - 1936-10-04

 

1936 – San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration, San Francisco, CA 1936-11-11 - 1936-11-14

 

1937 – Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta, San Francisco, CA 1937-05-27 - 1937-06-02

 

1939 -1940 – New York World's Fair, New York, NY (1 of 3) 1939-04-30 - 1940-10-27

 

1939 - 1940 - New York World's Fair, New York, NY (2 of 3) 1939-04-30 - 1940-10-27

 

1939 - 1940 - New York World's Fair, New York, NY (3 of 3) 1939-04-30 - 1940-10-27

 

1939 – 1940 – Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (1 of 4) 1939-1940

 

1939 – 1940 – Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (2 of 4) 1939-1940

 

1939 – 1940 – Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (3 of 4) 1939-1940

 

1939 – 1940 – Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (4 of 4) 1939-1940

 

1942 – Chico, CA Golden Spike Ceremony 1942

 

1948 - 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair (1 of 3) 1948-1949

 

1948 - 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair (2 of 3) 1948-1949

 

1948 - 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair (3 of 3) 1948-1949

 

1950 – Chicago Fair 1950

 

1951 – Cable Car Week (Jun 3-9) San Francisco 1951-06-03 - 1951-06-09

 

1953 – Railroad Days, Dunsmuir, CA 1953

 

1955 – Burney Basin Days (Jul 2-4), Burney, CA 1955-07-02 - 1955-07-04

 

1956 – Los Angeles County Fair 1956

 

1962 – Seattle World's Fair 1962

 

1964 – 1965 – New York World's Fair 1964-1965

 

1967 – Second Annual Trolley Meet, Los Angeles, CA 1967

 

1969 – Golden Spike Centennial 1969-05-08 - 1969-05-11

 

1969 – Richmond Museum Association Golden Spike Commemoration, Richmond, CA 1969-05-18

 

1972 – US International Transportation Exposition (TRANSPO 72) 1972

 

1973 – San Francisco Cable Car Centennial 1973

 

1974 – EXPO 74 World's Fair, Spokane, WA 1974

 

1975 – The Great Steam Exhibition of 1975, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 1975

 

1976 – Bicentennial Railway Exhibit, San Francisco 1976

 

1976 – UCLA Lecture Series, "Railroads: The Romance and the Reality" 1976

 

1978 – National Transportation Week 1978

 

1981 – International Rail Fair, Roseville, CA 1981

 

1983 – San Francisco Trolley Festival 1983-06 - 1983-07

 

1983 – Winter Rail, Stockton, CA 1983

 

1983 – Northern Pacific Last Spike Centennial, Deer Lodge, MT 1983-08-22 - 1983-08-25

 

1984 – Winter Rail, Stockton, CA 1984

 

1984 – San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival 1984

 

1985 – Winter Rail 85, Stockton, CA 1985

 

1986 – Tenth Annual International Rail Fair, Roseville, CA 1986

 

1986 – Steam Expo 86, Vancouver, BC 1986

 

1986 – EXPO 86 The 1986 World Exposition, Vancouver, BC 1986

 

1986 – Winter Rail 86, Stockton, CA 1986

 

1987 – Portland Rail Fair, Portland, OR 1987

 

1987 – The Great San Francisco Railroad Fair 1987

 

1987 – Oakland Museum Symposium Dec. 12 1987-12-12

 

1988 – Railroads of the American West, UCLA 1988-07-30

 

1988 – Railroad Days, Topeka, KS 1988-09-03 - 1988-09-05

 

1988 – Winter Rail 88, Stockton, CA 1988

 

1988 – The American Railroad Conference, Altoona, PA 1988-06-16 - 1988-06-19

 

1989 – Farmers and Threshermens Jubilee, Rockwood, PA 1989-09-06 - 1989-09-10

 

1989 – Utah State Railroad Festival, Ogden, UT 1989-05-12 - 1989-05-14

 

1989 – Fourth Annual Railfans Day, Portola, CA 1989-09-09

 

1989 – Railway Preservation Conference, Strasburg, PA 1989-09-29 - 1989-10-01

 

1990 – Winter Rail 90, Stockton, CA 1990

 

1990 – Railroad Heritage Day, Oakland Army Base 1990-05-19

 

1990 – The American Railroad Conference, Harrisburg, PA 1990-06-06 - 1990-06-09

 

1991 – Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 1991

 

1991 – National Railway Preservation Symposium, Strasburg, PA 1991-09-20 - 1991-09-22

 

1992 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 1992

 

1992 – Winter Rail 92, Stockton, CA 1992

 

1993 – The American Rail Heritage Conference, Altoona, PA 1993-06-03 - 1993-06-06

 

1994 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 1994

 

1994 - Winter Rail 94, Stockton, CA 1944

 

1995 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 1995

 

1996 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 1996

 

1997 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 1997

 

1999 – Railroads and the Development of the West, Fresno, CA 1999

 

2000 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 2000

 

2001 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 2001

 

2003 - Winter Rail 03, Stockton, CA 2003

 

2006 - Miscellaneous Rail Conferences 2006

 

2008 – Rail Fest 2008, North Platte, NE 2008-09-19 - 2008-09-21

 

Series 4: Locations

Scope and Contents

Series 4 consists of an assembled collection of location files related to the railroad.
There are major location files in the series for Los Angeles (CA), Oakland (CA), Sacramento (CA), San Francisco (CA), Siskiyou (CA), Yosemite (CA), Hawaii, Nevada, New York City, Oregon, Washington, and Canada.
Arranged alphabetically by state, then by city.
 

California (1 of 2)

 

California (2 of 2)

 

California. About California

 

California. Allensworth

 

California. Auburn

 

California. Bakersfield

 

California. Benicia

 

California. Berkeley

 

California. Big Trees

 

California. Boca

 

California. Bodega

 

California. Bodie and Esmeralda

 

California. Burlingame

 

California. Burney

 

California. Calico

 

California. Colfax

 

California. Colusa

 

California. Coronado

 

California. Davis

 

California. Death Valley

 

California. Del Monte

 

California. Deserts

 

California. Dixon

 

California. Dunsmuir

 

California. Dutch Flat

 

California. Eureka

 

California. Fair Oaks

 

California. Folsom

 

California. Fort Bragg

 

California. Fort Ross

 

California. Fremont

 

California. Fresno

 

California. Fullerton

 

California. Glendale

 

California. Grass Valley

 

California. Hayward

 

California. Inglewood

 

California. Jamestown

 

California. Kern

 

California. Latrobe

 

California. Long Beach

 

California. Los Angeles (1 of 3)

 

California. Los Angeles (2 of 3)

 

California. Los Angeles (3 of 3)

 

California. Los Gatos

 

California. Marin

 

California. Martinez

 

California. Mendocino

 

California. Mineral King

 

California. Monte Rio

 

California. Monterey

 

California. Morgan Hill

 

California. Murphys

 

California. Nevada City

 

California. Niles

 

California. Norden

 

California. Novato

 

California. Oakdale

 

California. Oakland (1 of 4)

 

California. Oakland (2 of 4)

 

California. Oakland (3 of 4)

 

California. Oakland (4 of 4)

 

California. Pacific Grove

 

California. Palo Alto

 

California. Paradise

 

California. Pasadena

 

California. Pinole

 

California. Pittsburg

 

California. Pamona

 

California. Port Costa

 

California. Portola

 

California. Quincy

 

California. Railroads (1 of 2)

 

California. Railroads (2 of 2)

 

California. Redlands California

 

California. Richmond

 

California. Riverside

 

California. Roseville

 

California. Sacramento (1 of 6)

 

California. Sacramento (2 of 6)

 

California. Sacramento (3 of 6)

 

California. Sacramento (4 of 6)

 

California. Sacramento (5 of 6)

 

California. Sacramento (6 of 6)

 

California. San Carlos

 

California. San Diego

 

California. San Francisco (1 of 7)

 

California. San Francisco (2 of 7)

 

California. San Francisco (3 of 7)

 

California. San Francisco (4 of 7)

 

California. San Francisco (5 of 7)

 

California. San Francisco (6 of 7)

 

California. San Francisco (7 of 7)

 

California. San Jose

 

California. San Juan Batista

 

California. San Leandro

 

California. San Luis Obispo

 

California. San Mateo

 

California. San Rafael

 

California. Santa Ana

 

California. Santa Barbara

 

California. Santa Catalina

 

California. Santa Cruz

 

California. Santa Paula

 

California. Santa Rosa

 

California. Saratoga

 

California. Sebastopol

 

California. Selma

 

California. Shasta Springs

 

California. Sisson

 

California. Sonora

 

California. Stockton

 

California. Summerland

 

California. Summit Soda Springs

 

California. Susanville

 

California. Tehachapi

 

California. Tiburon

 

California. Torquay

 

California. Tracy

 

California. Truckee

 

California. Tulare

 

California. Vacaville

 

California. Vallejo Mills

 

California. Valley Springs

 

California. Visalia

 

California. Wawona

 

California. Weed

 

California. Willits

 

California. Woodland

 

California. County. Alameda

 

California. County. Amador

 

California. County. Butte

 

California. County. Calaveras

 

California. County. Contra Costa

 

California. County. El Dorado

 

California. County. Fresno

 

California. County. Glenn

 

California. County. Humbolt

 

California. County. Imperial

 

California. County. Inyo

 

California. County. Kern

 

California. County. Lake

 

California. County. Lassen

 

California. County. Los Angeles

 

California. County. Madera

 

California. County. Marin

 

California. County. Mariposa

 

California. County. Merced

 

California. County. Napa

 

California. County. Nevada

 

California. County. Orange

 

California. County. Placer

 

California. County. Plumas

 

California. County. Sacramento

 

California. County. San Diego

 

California. County. San Joaquin

 

California. County. San Mateo

 

California. County. Santa Barbara

 

California. County. Santa Clara

 

California. County. Santa Cruz

 

California. County. Shasta

 

California. County. Sierra

 

California. County. Siskiyou (1 of 2)

 

California. County. Siskiyou (2 of 2)

 

California. County. Sonoma

 

California. County. Stanislaus

 

California. County. Sutter

 

California. County. Tulare

 

California. County. Tuolumne

 

California. County. Ventura

 

California. County. Yolo

 

California. Guides

 

California. Resources and Responsibilities 1910 1910

 

California. Resources and Responsibilities 1911 1911

 

California. Region. Central California

 

California. Region. East Bay

 

California. Region. Feather River

 

California. Region. Gold Country

 

California. Region. Lake Shasta

 

California. Region. Lake Tahoe

 

California. Region. Lassen Peak

 

California. Region. Mt. Diablo

 

California. Region. Mt. Hamilton

 

California. Region. Napa Valley

 

California. Region. Redwood Empire

 

California. Region. Sacramento River

 

California. Region. Sacramento Valley

 

California. Region. San Joaquin Valley

 

California. Region. Santa Maria Valley

 

California. Region. Sequoia and Kings Canyon

 

California. Region. Sierra

 

California. Region. Southern California

 

California. Region. Yosemite (1 of 3)

 

California. Region. Yosemite (2 of 3)

 

California. Region. Yosemite (3 of 3)

 

Northeast

 

Northwest

 

Rocky Mountains

 

South

 

Southwest

 

West

 

Alaska.

 

Arizona.

 

Colorado.

 

Connecticut.

 

Delaware.

 

District of Columbia.

 

Florida.

 

Hawaii (1 of 2).

 

Hawaii (2 of 2).

 

Idaho.

 

Illinois.

 

Illinois. Chicago.

 

Indiana.

 

Iowa.

 

Kansas.

 

Louisiana.

 

Maine.

 

Maryland.

 

Massachusetts.

 

Michigan.

 

Minnesota.

 

Missouri.

 

Montana.

 

Nebraska.

 

Nevada (1 of 2).

 

Nevada (2 of 2).

 

New Hampshire.

 

New Jersey.

 

New Mexico.

 

New York.

 

New York. New York City (1 of 3).

 

New York. New York City (2 of 3).

 

New York. New York City (3 of 3).

 

North Carolina.

 

Ohio.

 

Oregon (1 of 2).

 

Oregon (2 of 2).

 

Pennsylvania.

 

South Carolina.

 

South Dakota.

 

Tennessee.

 

Texas.

 

United States.

 

Utah.

 

Vermont.

 

Washington (1 of 2).

 

Washington (2 of 2).

 

West Virginia.

 

Wisconsin.

 

Wyoming.

 

Canada (1 of 2).

 

Canada (2 of 2).

 

Canada. British Columbia.

 

Canada. Nova Scotia.

 

Canada. St. Lawrence River Project.

 

Cuba.

 

Mexico.

 

Nicaragua.