Leslie O. Merrill Collection of Streamliner Railroad Ephemera and Photographs: Finding
Aid
Finding aid prepared by Suzanne Oatey.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Leslie O. Merrill Collection of Streamliner Railroad Ephemera and Photographs
Dates (inclusive): 1882-2008
Bulk dates: 1935-1970
Collection Number: 646607
Collector:
Merrill, Leslie O.
Extent:
Over 3,000 pieces of ephemera and photographs in 29 boxes + 165 prints and posters
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Rare Books Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This is a collection of streamliner railroad ephemera, photographs, prints and posters, most of which was produced in the
heyday of the American streamliner,
the late 1930s to 1955. Also included are items on early aerodynamic experiments of the 19th century; manufacturers and designers;
and foreign railroads, particularly in Europe.
Passenger brochures and photographs make up the bulk of the collection, with especially extensive files on Union Pacific;
Southern Pacific; New York Central;
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Leslie O. Merrill Collection of Streamliner Railroad Ephemera and Photographs, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Leslie O. Merrill, 1976-2008.
Biographical Note
Mr. Leslie O. Merrill (1920-2009) was a life-long collector of streamline railroad materials. His interest began at age 14,
when the new "Pioneer Zephyr" streamliner
train passed through his hometown of Syracuse, New York, in 1934. He built his collection largely by writing and visiting
railroad headquarters, requesting and receiving the newest brochures and photographs. He also made his own photographs of
streamliner trains in travels all over the country, and sometimes purchased items. Professionally, Merrill was a director
of the San Mateo County Historical Association and Museum for several years in the 1960s-1970s. He died in 2009 in Santa Barbara,
California.
Scope and Content
This collection of railroad ephemera, photographs, prints and posters concerns only streamliner trains—the wind-resistant,
"streamlined" designs first appearing on major U.S. railroads in 1934 and peaking in the glamour years of the American streamliner,
late 1930s to 1955. The sleek, fast trains were promoted for their speed, luxury and comfort compared to older, heavyweight
steam locomotives. The bulk of the collection is composed of passenger brochures, with especially extensive files on Union
Pacific; Southern Pacific; New York Central; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ("the Burlington"); and the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe ("the Santa Fe") railroads. There are also many materials on Amtrak (formed in 1971), and foreign railroads, particularly
in Canada, Europe and Japan.
Besides brochures, other printed materials include: manufacturer’s pamphlets, employee newsletters, press releases, blueprints
of railcars, copies of U.S. Patent Office design applications, menus, lounge car stationery, baggage stickers and other items.
The photographs are mostly railroad-issued 8 x 10-inch prints showing train exteriors and richly designed dining cars, lounge
cars, sleeping cabins and domed observation cars. There are also many high-quality small-format photographs made by Leslie
Merrill and other amateur photographers, 1938 to 1960s. The prints and posters mostly consist of promotions for U.S. railroads,
with several notable pre-World War II posters for European railroads.
An important section of the collection covers early streamlining experiments of the late-19th century: Samuel R. Calthrop’s
"air-resisting" train of 1865; Frederick U. Adams’s "Windsplitter" of 1893; Joe V. Meigs’ "Meigs Elevated Railway" monorail
in 1880s Boston; and William Riley McKeen Jr.’s aerodynamic McKeen Motor Car of the 1900s.
In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest are:
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Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that
reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century.
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History of food and drink: See numerous dining car and beverage menus (not always noted in container list).
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History of advertising, graphic design and typography represented in 20th-century railroad print advertising.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
Arrangement
The collection has primarily been kept in the collector’s original arrangement and is organized in the following five series:
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1. Railroads, United States (Boxes 1-15)
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2. Subject files (streamliner-related) (Boxes 15-19)
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3. Railroads, Foreign (Boxes 20-23)
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4. Oversize and miscellaneous items (Boxes 24-29)
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5. Prints and posters (165 loose items)
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Budd Company.
McKeen Motor Car Co.
Pullman Company.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Locomotives.
Diesel locomotives.
Railroads.
Electric railroads.
Railroads -- History -- Pictorial works.
Railroad travel.
Railroads – Employees.
Food—History.
Advertising – Railroads -- Specimens.
Graphic design (Typography)—Specimens.
Aerodynamics--History.
African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Pictorial works.
Indians of North America -- Pictorial works.
Indians in popular culture.
Calthrop, S. R. (Samuel Robert), 1829-1917
McKeen, William R., Jr., 1869-1946
Meigs, Joe V. (Joe Vincent), 1840-
Forms/Genres
Advertisements.
Clippings.
Ephemera.
Ephemera -- United States -- 19th century.
Ephemera -- United States -- 20th century.
Ephemera -- United States -- 21st century.
Leaflets (printed works).
Letterheads.
Lithographs.
Menus.
Motion pictures (visual work) -- 20th century.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Posters.
Printed ephemera.
Promotional materials.
Slides -- Color -- 1950-1970.
Stationery.
I. Railroads, United States
Physical Description: 14 1/2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Date ranges are not inclusive; the range shows the earliest identified date and the latest identified date within that section.
Typical items include brochures, photographs, clippings, menus, postcards; correspondence between railroad companies and Leslie
Merrill; annual reports, copies of U.S. patent applications for locomotive designs, baggage tags, decals, lounge car stationery,
press releases. There are very few timetables or route maps.
Arrangement
Files have been kept in the collector's original arrangement. They are arranged alphabetically by railroad name, with the
exception of Amtrak (formed in 1971), which files at the end. Photographs are filed in the same folders with printed material.
Box 1
Alaska - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Folder 1
Alaska Railroad.
1947-1999
Folder 2
Ann Arbor Railroad Company; Atlantic and East Carolina Railway; Atlantic and Saint Andrews Bay Railway Company.
1941-1967
Folder 3
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1935-1951
Includes train(s): Super Chief. Includes (selected items): brochures: "Preliminary Run of the Super Chief, Chicago - Los Angeles,
November 19-21, 1935" with running times of four trains and list of "gentlemen" guests aboard train; "Announcing the Super
Chief, effective May 12 [1936]"; "Exquisite Interiors--Beauty Wrought in Wood" (rare woods used in train, 1937).
Folder 4
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1951-1968
Includes train(s): Super Chief.
Folder 5
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1938-1969
Includes train(s): El Capitan.
Folder 6
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1956-1970
Includes train(s): El Capitan.
Folder 7
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1939-1941
Includes train(s): Scout.
Folder 8
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1936-1962
Includes train(s): Golden Gate.
Folder 9
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1938-1957
Includes train(s): San Diegan; Kansas Cityan.
Folder 10
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1947-1967
Includes train(s): The Chief.
Folder 11
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1940-1970
Includes train(s): Texas Chief.
Folder 12
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1947-1970
Includes train(s): Kansas City Chief; San Francisco Chief.
Folder 13
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1935-1952
Folder 14
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1952-1958
Folder 15
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1961-1971
Folder 16
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Folder 17
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1936-1982
Includes (selected items): 60 photographic postcards of various Santa Fe streamliners.
Folder 18
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1938-1958
Folder 19
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Late 1930s - early 1940s
Includes (selected items): 94 company-produced 8 x 10" photographs of interiors and exteriors.
Folder 20
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Late 1930s - early 1940s
Includes (selected items): approximately 100 small snapshot photographs made by Merrill.
Box 2
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (continued) - Boston and Maine Railroad
Folder 21
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Folder 22
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Folder 23
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Folder 24
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
1939-1975
Includes (selected items): book: "A Quarter Century of Santa Fe Consists," by Fred W. Frailey. Lists of passenger trains and
rolling stock, text, photos, floor diagrams (208 p., 1974); booklet, "Santa Fe's Hi-Level Cars," cars built by Budd for El
Capitan train ("The Cap"). Lists of consists, descriptions, photographs, floor diagrams (38 p., 1975); booklet, "Railroads
Build The Nation, 1869 - 1939" issued as the program for the May 3-4-5, 1939 opening of Los Angeles Union Station.
Folder 25
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.
1939-1960s
Includes train(s): The Champion.
Folder 26
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.
1939-1970
Includes train(s): Vacationer; Florida Special.
Folder 27
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.
Folder 28
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.
Includes photographs. Some photographs stamped "Florida Coast Railway," showing soldiers on Dixie Flagler train, approximately
1940s.
Folder 29
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1935-1971
Includes train(s): Royal Blue; Capitol Limited. Includes (selected items): brochure. "Introducing the Most Modern train in
the World." The Royal Blue. Between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. Built of the "new" Cor-ten steel--40%
lighter in weight. Schedules and pictures of train, interior and exterior (steam locomotive).
Folder 30
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1938-1956
Includes train(s): National Limited; Ambassador.
Folder 31
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1941-1961
Includes train(s): Columbian. Includes (selected items): "The Royal Blue / The Columbian / 2 Streamliners" brochure signed
by designer Otto Kuhler, accompanied by letter from Kuhler (1952).
Folder 32
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1947-1962
Includes train(s): Cincinnatian; Tri-Stater.
Folder 33
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1937-1957
Folder 34
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1952-1963
Folder 35
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1940s-1950s
Folder 36
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1940s-1950s
Folder 37
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Folder 38
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
1940s-1965
Includes (selected items): 36 company-produced 8 x 10" photographs; one envelope of small snapshots; one brochure-envelope
holding four photographs promoting "Movies-on-the-Train" (1965).
Folder 39
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company; Broadmoor Hotel Cog Railroad ("Broadmoor Mountaineer").
1940s-1950s
Includes (selected items): 1948 annual report for Bangor and Aroostook; 1950s snapshots of streamliner train used on the Broadmoor
Mountaineer cog railway, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Folder 40
Boston and Maine Railroad.
1935-1956
Includes train(s): Flying Yankee; Mountaineer. Includes (selected items): brochure: "The Streamlined Flying Yankee Comes to
New England" (1935), with large fold-out picture map. Promotes a stainless steel diesel electric train similar to the Burlington
Pioneer Zephyr.
Folder 41
Boston and Maine Railroad.
1935-1950s
Box 3
California Western Railroad - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
Folder 42
California Western Railroad.
1963-1999
Includes train(s): The Skunk.
Folder 43
California Western Railroad.
1957-1971
Includes train(s): The Skunk; Super Skunk and logging trains. Includes photographs.
Folder 44
Central of Georgia Railway Company.
1947-1971
Includes train(s): Nancy Hanks; Nancy Hanks II; Man O' War; Crusader. Includes photographs.
Folder 45
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.
1938-1940s
Folder 46
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.
1946-1969
Includes train(s): Pere Marquette; The George Washington; Train X; Chessieliner. Includes (selected items): invitation card:
"The Pere Marquette Railway cordially invites you to the preview of The Pere Marquette postwar wonder train. Fort St. Union
Depot, Detroit. Wednesday, August 7, 1946. 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m."
Folder 47
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.
Folder 48
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.
1946-1975
Folder 49
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1934-1960
Includes train(s): Burlington Zephyr (later called Pioneer Zephyr). Also called "The Burlington."
Folder 50
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1935-1938
Includes train(s): Twin Zephyrs.
Folder 51
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1939-1971
Includes train(s): Twin Zephyrs.
Folder 52
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1936-1946
Includes train(s): Ozark State Zephyr; Sam Houston Zephyr; Mark Twain Zephyr.
Folder 53
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1936-1956
Includes train(s): Denver Zephyr.
Folder 54
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1956-1963
Includes train(s): Vista-Dome Denver Zephyr.
Folder 55
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1936-1957
Includes train(s): General Pershing Zephyr; Silver Streak; Texas Zephyr; Zephyr Rockets; Nebraska Zephyr; Ak-Sar-Ben. Includes
(selected items): "General Pershing" Zephyr train brochure signed by Pershing (1940).
Folder 56
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1948-1960
Includes train(s): California Zephyr.
Folder 57
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1949-1968
Includes train(s): California Zephyr.
Folder 58
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1953-1974
Includes train(s): California Zephyr.
Folder 59
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1937-1965
Includes train(s): Kansas City Zephyr; American Royal Zephyr; Special Trains.
Folder 60
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1936-1962
Includes train(s): Aeolus; Burlington Zephyrs.
Folder 61
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Includes train(s): Pioneer Zephyr; Twin Zephyrs; Denver Zephyr.
Folder 62
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Includes train(s): Silver Streak; Burlington Zephyrs.
Folder 63
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Includes train(s): California Zephyr.
Box 4
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company (continued) - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Folder 64
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Includes train(s): Burlington Zephyrs.
Folder 65
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Includes (selected items): 44 company-produced photographs (8 x 10 in.) of various Zephyrs. Some interior shots showing art
deco furnishings.
Folder 66
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Includes (selected items): approximately 75 company-produced photographs.
Folder 67
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1930s-1940s
Includes train(s): Pioneer Zephyr; Twin Zephyr; Kansas City Zephyr; American Royal Zephyr.
Folder 68
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1940s-1970s
Folder 69
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1940s-1970s
Folder 70
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1930s-1960
Includes train(s): Burlington Zephyrs.
Folder 71
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1938-1970
Includes (selected items): "The Zephyr" monthly employee newsletter, 1939-1965 (not inclusive).
Folder 72
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
1930s-1960s
Includes train(s): Burlington Zephyrs and Aeolus Locomotive. Includes (selected items): approximately 150 small photographs
of various locomotives and trains in several locations.
Folder 73
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
1937-1957
Includes train(s): Egyptian Zipper; Whippoorwill; Meadowlark; Chicago-Liners. Includes photographs.
Folder 74
Chicago Great Western Railway Company.
1929-1967
Includes train(s): Blue Bird; Red Bird. Includes photographs.
Folder 75
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway (also called Monon Railroad).
1946-1956
Includes train(s): The Hoosier; Lew Wallace; Mononland; The Tippecanoe; The Thoroughbred; Ben Hur. Includes photographs.
Folder 76
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
1935-1938
Includes train(s): Twin Cities Hiawatha. Includes (selected items): "Heralding... The Milwaukee Road's Latest Contribution
to Modern Transportation." Shows the beaver-tail parlor car (1935); "The Milwaukee Road presents the First of the Speedliners,
Hiawatha." (1935)
Folder 77
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
1937-1955
Includes train(s): Twin Cities Hiawatha.
Folder 78
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
1940-1951
Includes train(s): Midwest Hiawatha; Olympian Hiawatha. Includes (selected items): "The Olympian. Electrified over four mountain
ranges." 3000 volts DC. (1940-1941); postcard: "First Trip, June 29, 1947, Olympian Hiawatha."
Folder 79
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
1937-1969
Includes train(s): Olympian Hiawatha; Chippewa; Pioneer Limited.
Folder 80
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
1934 -1974
Includes train(s): Milwaukee Road Hiawathas.
Box 5
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (continued) - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
Folder 81
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
Includes train(s): Milwaukee Road Hiawathas.
Folder 82
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
Includes train(s): Milwaukee Road Hiawathas. Includes (selected items): over 100 photographs.
Folder 83
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
Includes train(s): Milwaukee Road Hiawathas. Includes (selected items): three patent filings: one from Otto Kuhler for design
of last car on train (1947); one from Clifford Brooks Stevens for a Hiawatha observation car (1950); one from Harold L. Hamilton,
William D. Otter, and Paul A. Meyer for a GM locomotive body (1941).
Folder 84
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road).
Folder 85
Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
1939-1951
Includes train(s): 400; Minnesota "400"; Flambeau "400"; Dakota "400"
Folder 86
Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
1938-1961
Folder 87
Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
1938-1965
Folder 88
Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
1939-1971
Folder 89
Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
1938-1990
Folder 90
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1957
Includes train(s): Rockets; Californian.
Folder 91
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1939-1957
Includes train(s): Rocky Mountain Rocket; Arizona Limited.
Folder 92
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1940-1979
Includes train(s): Rocky Mountain Rocket; Choctaw Rocket; Arizona Limited.
Folder 93
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1962
Includes train(s): Golden State Limited.
Folder 94
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1966
Includes train(s): Twin Star Rocket; The Imperial; Corn Belt Rocket; Peorian; Rock Island Trains.
Folder 95
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
Folder 96
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1950; 1968
Folder 97
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1972
Folder 98
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
Box 6
Chicago and St. Louis Electric Railroad Company - Great Northern Railway Company
Folder 99
Chicago and St. Louis Electric Railroad Company.
1892
One item only: Broadside. "For the Purpose of Completing its Roadbed, Now in Course of Construction .... Offering 50,000 shares
of stock" (1892). Elevation drawing of wedge-fronted locomotive.
Folder 100
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation.
1939-1975
Includes train(s): Montreal Limited; The Adirondack; Laurentian.
Folder 101
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company.
1937-1959
Includes train(s): Phoebe Snow; Chicago Limited. Includes photographs.
Folder 102
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
1941-1986
Includes train(s): Prospector; Football Specials; Silver Vista; Yampa Valley; Zephyr; California Zephyr.
Folder 103
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
1948-1971
Folder 104
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
1956-1966
Folder 105
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
Folder 106
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
Folder 107
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
Includes (selected items): book. "A Century of Passenger Trains: A Study of 100 Years of Passenger Service on the Denver &
Rio Grande Railway, Its Heirs, Successors and Assigns" by Jackson Thode, published by Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. (260 p.,
1972); Book. "Never on Wednesday, the first decade of the Rio Grande Zephyr" by Richard Loveman and Mel Patrick, published
by PTJ Publishing (120 p.,1980).
Folder 108
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company; Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway; Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company; Erie
Railroad Company
Includes train(s): The Lake Cities; Erie Limited; Atlantic Express; The Phoebe Snow. Includes photographs. Includes (selected
items): one item for DM&IR: 1957 letter and photograph of Budd RDC coach car. One item for EJ&ER: 1947 letter and freight
diesel bulletin. Several items for Erie railroads.
Folder 109
Florida East Coast Railway Company.
1939-1943
Includes train(s): The Henry M. Flagler; Dixie Flagler; The Champion; The South Wind.
Folder 110
Florida East Coast Railway Company.
1936-1941
Includes train(s): The Henry M. Flagler; Dixie Flagler; The Champion; The South Wind. Includes photographs.
Folder 111
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company.
1934-1950
Includes train(s): Maple Leaf; Mohawk. Includes photographs.
Folder 112
Great Northern Railway Company.
1947-1950
Includes train(s): Empire Builder. Includes (selected items): pamphlet. "Travel by Lucia Lewis, A Story about the New Empire
Builder." Detailed description of decor of train (1947).
Folder 113
Great Northern Railway Company.
1948-1959
Includes train(s): Empire Builder.
Folder 114
Great Northern Railway Company.
1957-1968
Includes train(s): Empire Builder.
Folder 115
Great Northern Railway Company.
1948-1960
Includes train(s): Oriental Limited; Red River; Internationals; Winnipeg Limited.
Folder 116
Great Northern Railway Company.
1950-1966
Includes train(s): Western Star.
Folder 117
Great Northern Railway Company.
1948-1953
Includes train(s): Mid-Century Empire Builder; The Streamlined Western Star. Includes (selected items): brochure. "Chicago
Railroad Fair: A Short Story of the Great Northern Railway." (1948).
Folder 118
Great Northern Railway Company.
1953-1963
Includes (selected items): book. "Diesel, Gas-Electric & Electric Locomotive Diagrams, Reprint of Great Northern" (Reprint
of 1952 Edition #32). "Blueprints and measurements for rail fans and model railroaders." Published by J.W. Sheets, 1963.
Folder 119
Great Northern Railway Company.
Includes (selected items): "Condensed History, Great Northern" (13 p., 1969).
Box 7
Great Northern Railway Company (continued) - Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Folder 120
Great Northern Railway Company.
Folder 121
Great Northern Railway Company.
Folder 122
Great Northern Railway Company.
Includes train(s): Empire Builder; Red River.
Folder 123
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company; Alton Railroad Company.
1935-1940
Includes train(s): The Abraham Lincoln; The Ann Rutledge; The Rebel. Includes (selected items): some materials for the Alton
Railroad, which merged into the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1947. Sample items: "Abraham Lincoln, The First Diesel Electric
Powered Streamlined lightweight train between Chicago and St. Louis." 4 hours, 55 minutes. Interior photos. (1936); "Good
News for our St. Louis - Chicago patrons. On the Ann Rutledge. Stewardess registered nurse services, special service for women
travelers." (1940).
Folder 124
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company; Alton Railroad Company.
1950-1955
Includes train(s): The Rebel; Gulf Coast Rebel. Includes (selected items): some materials for the Alton Railroad, which merged
into the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1947.
Folder 125
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company; Alton Railroad Company.
1937-1965
Includes train(s): The Abraham Lincoln; The Ann Rutledge. Includes (selected items): photographs; some materials for the Alton
Railroad, which merged into the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1947.
Folder 126
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
1936-1968
Includes train(s): The Green Diamond; The City of Miami.
Folder 127
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
1939-1969(?)
Includes train(s): Miss Lou; Illini; Land O' Corn; Panama Limited; City of New Orleans.
Folder 128
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
1973
One book only: "Illinois Central, Monarchs of Mid-America" by W. David Randall and Alan R. Lind, Prototype Publications, Park
Forest, Illinois, (256 p.,1973). Mostly car plans (elevations and floor plans). Also reproductions of passenger service advertisements,
dining car menus, tickets and passes, timetables, passenger train service histories, passenger train consists.
Folder 129
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
1948-1968
Includes train(s): Daylight; Magnolia Star; Mid American.
Folder 130
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
Folder 131
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
1940s
Includes (selected items): 62 large company-produced photographs of interiors (most with people) and some exteriors of various
trains. Six interior views are by Pullman-Standard Co.
Folder 132
Illinois Terminal Railroad Company.
1948-1950
Includes train(s): City of Decatur; Fort Crevecoeur; Mound City. Includes photographs.
Folder 133
Kansas City Southern Railway Company.
Includes train(s): Flying Crow; Southern Belle.
Folder 134
Kansas City Southern Railway Company.
1939-1950
Includes train(s): Southern Belle. Includes photographs.
Folder 135
Kansas City Southern Railway Company.
1940-1951
Includes train(s): Southern Belle.
Folder 136
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
1939-1951
Includes train(s): John Wilkes; The Black Diamond. Includes photographs.
Folder 137
Long Island Railroad Company; Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Railway.
1956-1971
Includes train(s): East Ender; The Metropolitan. Includes photographs. Includes (selected items): broadside. "Los Angeles
and San Diego Beach Ry. - La Jolla." Photograph of a McKeen car (identified as built by Union Pacific). San Diego to La Jolla
in 45 minutes; "The High Iron to La Jolla," by R.P. Middlebrook. San Diego Historical Society. (1961); copy of photograph
of a retired McKeen railcar. Most items for Long Island Railroad. Three items only for LA&SDBR.
Folder 138
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
1946-1950s
Includes train(s): The Georgian; The Humming Bird; The Dixieland. Note: These two railroads merged in 1957.
Folder 139
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
1947-1968
Includes train(s): The Georgian; The Humming Bird; The Dixieland. Includes photographs. Note: These two railroads merged in
1957.
Folder 140
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
1942-1959
Includes train(s): The Georgian; The Humming Bird; The Dixieland. Includes (selected items): pamphlet. "The Louisville and
Nashville Railroad--A brief biography of a railroad which has served the South for over 100 years" (1959?); "L & N, A pictorial
history of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad." These two railroads merged in 1957.
Box 8
Maine Central Railroad Company - New York Central Railroad Company
Folder 141
Maine Central Railroad Company; Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Company.
1940-1998
Includes photographs. Most items for Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway. For the Maine Central: photographs only.
Folder 142
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company; Missouri and Arkansas Railway Company; Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (also
called KATY).
1938-1963
Folder 143
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
1940-1960
Includes train(s): Missouri River Eagle; Colorado Eagle; Delta Eagle.
Folder 144
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
1948-1963
Includes train(s): Texas Eagle.
Folder 145
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
1949-1962
Includes train(s): Valley Eagle; Aztec Eagle; Texan; others.
Folder 146
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
1940-1972
Folder 147
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
Folder 148
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
1940-1960
Folder 149
Monongahela Railway; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
1947-1950
Includes train(s): City of Memphis.
Folder 150
New York Central Railroad Company.
1934-1941
Includes train(s): The Mercury; Rexall Train; Commodore Vanderbilt; 20th Century Limited.
Folder 151
New York Central Railroad Company.
1941-1962
Includes train(s): 20th Century Limited.
Folder 152
New York Central Railroad Company.
1939-1952
Includes train(s): Southwestern Limited; The Pacemaker; The Detroiter; The New England States; The Forest City; James Whitcomb
Riley.
Folder 153
New York Central Railroad Company.
1941-1963
Includes train(s): Empire State Express; Food Industries Special; Talgo; Aerotrain; Ohio State Limited; Xplorer; World's Fair
Special.
Folder 154
New York Central Railroad Company.
1934-1952
Includes (selected items): brochure. "The Commodore Vanderbilt.... World's First Streamlined High Powered Steam Locomotive."
4075 horsepower. Hudson type. Named for founder of New York City (1934).
Folder 155
New York Central Railroad Company.
1950-1952
Folder 156
New York Central Railroad Company.
1952-1963
Folder 157
New York Central Railroad Company.
Folder 158
New York Central Railroad Company.
1935-1943
Folder 159
New York Central Railroad Company.
1930s-1940s
Includes train(s): 20th Century Limited. Includes photographs.
Folder 160
New York Central Railroad Company.
1935-1941
Includes (selected items): 60 train travel brochures--mostly aimed to business associations, service clubs, war veterans groups,
and professional associations (1936-1941).
Folder 161
New York Central Railroad Company.
1936-1972
Includes train(s): Xplorer. Includes (selected items): press kit: "New York Central System's XPLORER" Highlighting aluminum
construction, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton mechanical-hydraulic diesel locomotive (1956); Press kit: "The Woman's Angle on the New
York Central's New Xplorer." Includes "Hostess Service on the Xplorer" (4 p.); "Railroading as a Field for Women" (2 p.);
"'Cruisin' Susan' Service" (2 p.); "The Xplorer Design, Color and Comfort, A new Concept in Travel for Women" (1956).
Folder 162
New York Central Railroad Company.
1939-1971
Includes train(s): The Xplorer; 20th Century Limited; others.
Box 9
New York Central Railroad Company (continued) - Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway Company
Folder 163
New York Central Railroad Company.
1941-1970
Includes train(s): James Whitcomb Riley.
Folder 164
New York Central Railroad Company.
1939-1960
Folder 165
New York Central Railroad Company.
Folder 166
New York Central Railroad Company.
Folder 167
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
1935-1973
Includes train(s): Comet; East Wind; Daniel Webster; others.
Folder 168
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
Folder 169
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
1935-1971
Includes (selected items): printed letter saying, "For the first time in the United States, a train will be operated today
by remote control by the New Haven Railroad." Signed by Patrick B. McGinnis, Dec. 1, 1955. Also press releases on this topic.
Folder 170
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
1937-1981
Includes train(s): The Daniel Webster. Includes (selected items): press kit for the "New Haven Railroad's 'Daniel Webster'"
(train introduced in 1956).
Folder 171
New York, Ontario and Western Railway; New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Company.
1940-1957
Includes (selected items): NYO&W: Several clippings on the end of railroad's 80-year run, 1957. NYS&W: several photographs
and brochures on interurban "Susquehanna Streamliners."
Folder 172
Nickel Plate Road [New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad]; Norfolk Southern Railroad Company.
1938-1950
Includes (selected items): photographs; Nickel Plate: Brochure. "The Same Warm Welcome ... with a difference ... Buffalo,
Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis." Contains cartoon-style drawings showing grinning caricatures of African-American workers (undated).
Folder 173
Norfolk and Western Railway Company.
1941-1971
Includes train(s): Powhatan Arrow; Pocahontas. Includes (selected items): booklet: "Modern Coal-Burning Steam Locomotives
of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company." Three locomotives pictured and described (1945); Booklet: "The End of the Line,
Pocahontas, the Wabash Cannon Ball, Norfolk and Western." Commemorative booklet with reprints of promotional material.
Folder 174
Norfolk and Western Railway Company.
1947-1972
Includes train(s): Powhatan Arrow; Pocahontas. Includes photographs.
Folder 175
Norfolk and Western Railway Company.
1946-1983
Includes train(s): Powhatan Arrow; Pocahontas; others. Includes (selected items): photographs; booklet. "How to Travel by
Train." Published by American Car and Foundry Co. (1954).
Folder 176
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
1947-1959
Includes train(s): North Coast Limited.
Folder 177
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
1954-1966
Includes train(s): North Coast Limited. Includes (selected items): brochure: "The Lewis and Clark Traveller's Rest Buffet
Lounge Car." Photos, map of route, view of train murals painted by Edgar Miller, Chicago artist (1961).
Folder 178
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
1956-1968
Includes train(s): North Coast Limited; Mainstreeter; others.
Folder 179
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Folder 180
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
1941-1965
Includes train(s): North Coast Limited; The Mainstreeter. Includes (selected items): copy of large fold-out blueprint of Dome
Coach Passenger Car (1953).
Folder 181
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company.
1956-1967
Includes train(s): The Redwood. Includes photographs.
Folder 182
Ocean Shore Railroad; Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway Company.
1910s; 1972-1974
Includes train(s): The Goose. Includes (selected items): Ocean Shore: three copy photographs only of interurban railcar, approximately
1910s.
Box 10
Pennsylvania Railroad Company - St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
Folder 183
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1939-1967
Includes train(s): Trail Blazer; Broadway Limited. Includes (selected items): leaflet: "Telephone Service available between
New York and Harrisburg on the Broadway Limited." (1951).
Folder 184
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1940-1953
Includes train(s): South Wind; Jeffersonian; Liberty Limited; The General; The Spirit of St. Louis; The Golden Triangle; The
Pittsburgher; The Cincinnati Limited; The Senator; The Congressional. Includes (selected items): "The General" train brochure
signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, approximately 1949.
Folder 185
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1940s-1950s
Includes train(s): The Congressional; AeroTrain; The Keystone; The Metroliner.
Folder 186
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1935-1951
Includes (selected items): brochure. "Throw In The Switch! Pennsylvania Railroad Inaugurates All-Electric Service Between
New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Effective January 15, 1938. Pictures of catenary construction. Statement about work-hours
for thousands of men (1938).
Folder 187
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
1951-1969
Pennsylvania Railroad merged to become Penn Central in 1968. Folders 187-193 contain ephemera for both systems.
Folder 188
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
1938-1952
Includes (selected items): silver-plated teaspoon from Metroliner dining car and metal tie clasp.
Folder 189
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
1940-1956.
Includes (selected items): brochure: "Steps we're taking to improve Dining Car Service." Describes "refresher courses" after
the war, "with travel returning to more normal levels..." (1946).
Folder 190
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
Includes (selected items): over 100 photographs.
Folder 191
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
1938-1985
Includes (selected items): packet of materials on locomotive designer Raymond Loewy, including his autograph signature, sketches
and photograph.
Folder 192
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
Includes train(s): Metroliners; Aerotrain; Tubular Train.
Folder 193
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company.
1936-1970
Folder 194
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company; Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
1941-1972
Includes train(s): Libertyliners. Includes (selected items): photographs; contains materials on Electroliner trains of the
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad; the Philadelphia Suburban took over their operation when CNS&M shut down on January
20, 1963.
Folder 195
Reading Railroad (Reading Company).
1938-1948
Includes train(s): Stainless Steel Streamlined Train (later named Crusader); The Wall Street; The Schuylkill. Includes (selected
items): engraved invitations from Edward W. Scheer, president of the Reading Company and Edward G. Budd, president of Budd
Mfg. Co. to attend ceremonies at the delivery of the new Stainless Steel Streamlined train, Nov. 29, 1937.
Folder 196
Reading Railroad (Reading Company).
Folder 197
Reading Railroad (Reading Company).
1932-1972
Folder 198
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company; St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad; St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Company.
1909-1955
Includes train(s): The Old Dominion; Morning Star; Tennessean. Includes photographs. One item only for St. Joseph and Grand
Island: photograph of McKeen motor car, Jan. 14, 1909.
Folder 199
Rio Grande Southern Railroad Company.
1950-1979
Includes train(s): The Galloping Goose. Includes photographs.
Folder 200
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines).
1937-1957
Includes train(s): Texas Flash; Texas Special; Meteor; Kansas City Florida Special. Includes photographs.
Box 11
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company - Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Folder 201
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company; Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company; Seaboard Railway Company.
1939-1968
Includes train(s): Silver Meteor; Silver Comet; Orange Blossom Special.
Folder 202
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company; Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company; Seaboard Railway Company.
1936-1956
Includes train(s): Silver Meteor; Silver Comet; Orange Blossom Special; The Robert E. Lee.
Folder 203
Seaboard Railway; Seaboard Air Lines; Seaboard Coast Lines.
1962-1970
Includes train(s): Silver Meteor; Silver Comet; Orange Blossom Special; The Robert E. Lee.
Folder 204
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company; Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company; Seaboard Railway Company.
1950s-1971
Includes train(s): Silver Meteor; Silver Comet; Orange Blossom Special; The Robert E. Lee; Florida Sunbeam.
Folder 205
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company; Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company; Seaboard Railway Company.
Folder 206
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company; Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company; Seaboard Railway Company.
1938-1970
Folder 207
Soo Line Railroad Company.
1950-1967
Includes train(s): Mountaineer; The Laker; The Winnipeger.
Folder 208
Southern Railway (U.S.).
1941-1963
Includes train(s): The Vulcan; The Cracker; The Joe Wheeler; The New Royal Palm; The Goldenrod; The Tennessean; The Southerner.
Folder 209
Southern Railway (U.S.).
1940s-1970s
Includes train(s): The Vulcan; The Cracker; Joe Wheeler; The New Royal Palm; The Goldenrod; The Tennessean; Birmingham Special;
Crescent; Skyland Special.
Folder 210
Southern Railway (U.S.).
1940s-1970s
Folder 211
Southern Railway (U.S.).
1940s-1970s
Folder 212
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1954
Includes train(s): Daylight.
Folder 213
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1955-1965
Includes train(s): Daylight.
Folder 214
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Includes train(s): Sunbeam; San Joaquin Daylight; Morning Daylight; Noon Daylight; Sacramento Daylight.
Folder 215
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1941-1956
Includes train(s): Beaver; Cascade.
Folder 216
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1949-1966
Includes train(s): Lark; Starlight; Senator; Del Monte; Sacramento RDC.
Folder 217
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1949-1962
Includes train(s): Shasta Daylight.
Folder 218
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1950s
Includes train(s): Sunset Limited; The Crescent.
Folder 219
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1953
Folder 220
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1950-1952
Folder 221
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1970
Folder 222
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1940s-1960s
Box 12
Southern Pacific Railroad Company (continued) - Union Pacific Railroad Company
Folder 223
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1940-1968
Folder 224
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1981
Includes (selected items): over 100 snapshot photographs made by Merrill. Some color snapshots made at the Sacramento Fair,
1981.
Folder 225
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1930s-1960s
Includes (selected items): over 100 company-produced photographs. Many of these photographs have descriptions of the train,
its equipment and services.
Folder 226
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1938-1985
Includes train(s): Daylight; Sunset Limited; Lark. Includes (selected items): press kit: "Last Run of the Lark, April 7-8,
1968. 58 years of service between San Francisco and Los Angeles.'"
Folder 227
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1910-1964
Includes (selected items): special printed menu: "Southern Pacific Special Train, Los Angeles to San Francisco, September
20, 1959. His Excellency Nikita S. Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and Mrs. Khruscheva." Breakfast menu in English and Russian.
Folder 228
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1950-1975
Folder 229
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1957
Folder 230
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1967
Includes train(s): Shasta Daylight. Includes (selected items): book: "A call for restoration to service of the Shasta Daylight
Passenger Train Between San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon and A call for an investigation of Southern Pacific
passenger service by the Davis Railroad Club, University of California Davis, California." (156 p.) Happy Train Free Press,
Davis, California, June 23, 1967.
Folder 231
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
1937
Includes train(s): Daylight. Includes (selected items): set of 10 blueprints: Elevations and floor plans of the Daylight locomotive
and each car of the train. Locomotive class GS-2. Revised early 1937.
Folder 232
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway; Texas and Pacific Railway; Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway.
1933-1961
Includes train(s): Texas Eagle; Prairie Marksman; others. Includes photographs.
Folder 233
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1933-1938
Includes train(s): City of Salina (M-10000).
Folder 234
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1934-1960
Includes train(s): City of Portland.
Folder 235
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1958
Includes train(s): City of Los Angeles.
Folder 236
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1957
Includes train(s): City of Los Angeles.
Folder 237
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1954
Includes train(s): City of San Francisco.
Box 13
Union Pacific Railroad Company (continued)
Folder 238
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1958
Includes train(s): City of Denver.
Folder 239
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1965
Includes train(s): Forty Niner; Treasure Island Special; City of St. Louis.
Folder 240
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1939-1964
Includes train(s): Challenger.
Folder 241
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1947-1965
Includes train(s): Overland Limited; City of Las Vegas; Las Vegas Holiday; Pacific Limited.
Folder 242
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1969
Folder 243
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1939-1941
Folder 244
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1939-1964.
Folder 245
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1947-1961
Folder 246
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1968
Folder 247
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1951-1969
Includes train(s): City of Salina; City of Portland; City of Los Angeles.
Folder 248
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1940-1970
Includes train(s): City of Denver; City of St. Louis.
Folder 249
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1938-1970
Includes train(s): City of San Francisco; The Forty Niner; San Francisco Overland; Treasure Island Special; The Challenger.
Folder 250
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1938-1970
Folder 251
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1930s-1940s
Includes (selected items): over 100 small snapshot photographs.
Folder 252
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1930s-1960s
Includes train(s): City of Salina; City of Portland; City of San Francisco; City of Los Angeles. Includes (selected items):
over 100 company-produced photographs.
Folder 253
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1930s-1960s
Includes train(s): City of Denver; City of St. Louis; Forty Niner; City of Las Vegas; Train of Tomorrow. Includes (selected
items): over 100 company-produced photographs.
Folder 254
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1950s
Includes (selected items): over 100 small snapshot photographs.
Box 14
Union Pacific Railroad Company (continued) - Amtrak
Folder 255
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1936-1942
Includes train(s): City of Salina; City of Portland; City of Los Angeles; City of San Francisco.
Folder 256
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1938-1969
Includes train(s): City of Denver; City of St. Louis; others.
Folder 257
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1918-1972
Folder 258
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1934-1969
Folder 259
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
1937-1957
Includes (selected items): "Union Pacific Bulletin" monthly newsletter, 1937-1957 (not inclusive).
Folder 260
Virginia and Truckee Railway; Virginian Railway.
1910-1964
Includes photographs. Materials relating to McKeen motor cars: 17 snapshots of a silver, derelict, McKeen motor car in Helper,
Utah (1952); 14 photos of other McKeen motor car derelicts, some in process of being made into the "Super Chief Diner" in
Carson City, Nevada, (1941, 1952, 1966); color photographic postcard of the "Super Chief Diner, Highway 395, Carson City,
Nevada." On back: "Formerly car #22 of the fabulous Virginia & Truckee Railway."
Folder 261
Wabash Railway Company.
1946-1964
Folder 262
Wabash Railway Company.
1946-1964
Folder 263
Western Maryland Railroad Company; Wellsville, Addison & Galeton Railroad.
1952-1971
Includes train(s): (Freight trains).
Related Material
See also oversized brochure in Box 24.
Folder 264
Western Pacific Railroad Company; White Pass and Yukon Route.
1949-1980
Folder 266
Amtrak.
May-October 1973
Includes train(s): Broadway Limited; Mexico Adventour; North Coast Hiawatha; Starlight; others.
Folder 267
Amtrak.
October 1973-1974
Folder 268
Amtrak.
1975-1976
Includes (selected items): brochure. "Amtrak, The First Five Years. A Special Anniversary Report To The Public, May 1, 1976."
In newsletter format. Map, photos, information about equipment purchases, purchase of 621 miles NE Corridor from ConRail.
Folder 271
Amtrak.
1981-1983
Includes (selected items): leaflets. "Dining Service" and "Dining Across America." Explains changes in food service: Congress
eliminated $30 million in food service costs in 1982 and another $30 million in 1983.
Folder 278
Amtrak; Los Angeles interurban commuter trains (Metro Rail, Metrolink).
1971-1996
Folder 279
Amtrak (and Caltrain).
1972-1990s
Includes train(s): Caltrain; others.
II. Subject files (streamliner-related)
Physical Description: 4 1/2 boxes.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains: Manufacturer's brochures; industry reports; train rosters; lists; streamliner train books; magazines
and journals; excursion and special train tours; early "streamline" train experiments of the 19th century; monorails; high-speed
and interurban trains; and a file on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit system).
Date ranges are not inclusive; the range shows the earliest identified date and the latest identified date within that section.
Arrangement
Files have been kept in the collector's original arrangement. Photographs are filed in the same folders with printed material.
Folder 280
Manufacturers: American Car and Foundry (ACF) and Talgo.
1941-1977
Folder 281
Manufacturers: American Car and Foundry (ACF) and Talgo.
1941-1977
Includes (selected items): photographs; booklet. "The Story Behind The Talgo Story, A.C.F. Talgo Train." Reproductions of
articles and ads for various manufacturers in magazines, "Radio Reports" transcripts. Talgo "is a manufactured name, made
up with the first letters of the Spanish words tren (train), articulado (articulated), ligro (light), Goicoachea (inventor
of train), and Oriol (backer of train)" (p. 50). Features two 4405 h.p. diesel engines with "Caterpillar" articulated design
(110 p., 1949).
Folder 282
Manufacturers: American Locomotive (ALCO); General Electric (GE).
1937-1979
Includes (selected items): booklet. "Illustrated History of General Electric Locomotives. Diesel-Electric, Electric, Turbine
& Industrial. Over 400 Photographs" by O.M. Kerr. Includes a 12 p. summary of GE locomotive history (96 p., 1979).
Folder 283
Manufacturers: J.G. Brill Company; Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company.
1932-1979
Folder 284
Manufacturers: Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company [RDCs, i.e. rail diesel cars].
1951-1956
Includes (selected items): two spiral-bound books: 1) "Budd Analysis of Changes in Transportation." Short arguments for Budd's
manufacture of stainless-steel trains. Graphs, pictures (1940); 2) "Budd Analysis of Changes in Transportation. Volume Two,
The Florida Story." Same format as above but with emphasis on improvements in Florida's tourist trade following new fleet
of Budd-built streamliners. (85 p.,1940).
Box 16
Manufacturers (continued); Association of American Railroads; Coverdale & Colpitts Reports
Folder 285
Manufacturers: General Motors (Electro-Motive Division - EMD).
1938-1971
Includes (selected items): photographs; book: "Our GM Scrapbook, from the pages of Trains." (1971); "Diesel, The Modern Power"
by Ralph A. Richardson. History and operation of Diesel engines of all sizes. (1942); "General Motors Diesels In Review, 1934
-- 1944. 10th Anniversary of Diesel Road Power on American Railroad" (1944).
Folder 286
Manufacturers: General Motors (Aerotrain and AMT-125).
1964-1976
Includes (selected items): photographs; "A new concept in Passenger Train Travel. Aerotrain"; "Ten-coach experimental train."
(1955?)
Folder 287
Manufacturers: General Motors (Train of Tomorrow).
1945-1947
Folder 288
Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard.
1933-1967
Folder 289
Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard.
1934; 1981
Folder 290
Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard.
1967-
Includes (selected items): book. "Pullman Panorama, Volume 1." Edited by Robert J. Wayner of Wayner Publications. Working
from Pullman Co. records, a "nearly complete all-time roster of the cars which Pullman has owned or operated in North America."
(1967); "Pullman & Private Car Pictorial."
Folder 291
Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard.
1933-1946
Includes (selected items): photographs; booklet: "Color and Design in Passenger Equipment." Color pictures of interiors printed
for railroad purchasing officers. Page 10 has color renderings of "Three new revenue producers...": City of Denver," "Green
Diamond," "Daylight." (1937).
Folder 292
Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard.
1933-1965
Folder 293
Manufacturers: Siemens.
1996
Folder 294
Manufacturers: Various, A - M.
1938-1973
Brochures and publications for: Baldwin Locomotive Works; Clark Equipment Company; Edwards Railway Motor Car Co.; Fairbanks-Morse;
Four Wheel Drive Auto Company; Lima Locomotive Works; Micheline.
Folder 295
Manufacturers: Various, N - Z.
1939-1971
Brochures and publications for: Pressed Steel Car Company; Sikorsky Aircraft, Division of United Aircraft (TurboTrain); United
Aircraft; Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
Folder 296
Association of American Railroads.
1938-1971
Folder 297
Coverdale & Colpitts Reports.
1935-1950
Reports by Coverdale & Colpitts, consulting engineers: 1) "Report On High-Speed Trains Chicago-Twin Cities, June and July,
1935." ; 2) "Report On Streamline, Light-Weight, High-Speed Passenger Trains, June 30, 1938." Conclusion: "... a large proportion
of the traffic on these trains has been newly created or retrieved from the highways." The facts show "great popularity and
high degree of financial success" of these trains (June, 1938); 3) "Report On Streamline, Light-Weight, High-Speed Passenger
Trains" (publications of 1939, 1940, 1950).
Box 17
Registers; Rosters; Railroad books; Magazines
Folder 298
Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment.
1943-1966
The Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment, issued semi-annually by The Railway Equipment and Publication Co.
Folder 299
Miscellaneous Lists, Registers, Clippings.
1946-1975
Folder 300
Railroad rosters.
1972-1973
Two books: "Diesel Locomotive Rosters, The Railroad Magazine Series." Compiled by Sy Reich (technical editor of Railroad Magazine).
Lists of Diesel engines owned by "almost all the large roads and hundreds of short lines." (1973?); and "Car Names, Numbers
and Consists." A roster of streamlined and lightweight passenger and "certain groups" of heavyweight cars rebuilt for streamlined
trains. Brief sections on Train of Tomorrow, Aerotrain, Talgo, and Train X. Some floor plans. (New York, Wayner Publications,
1972).
Folder 301
Railroad rosters; Spotter's guides.
1967-1987
Four books:
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1) "Diesel Spotter's Guide." by Jerry A. Pinkepank. Intended to be a comprehensive list of (U.S.) Diesel locomotives up to
1966. Listed by manufacturer. B/W photos, tables of specifications, descriptive paragraphs. (Kalmbach Pub. Co., Milwaukee,
WI., 1967)
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2) "From Zephyr to Amtrak, A Guide to Lightweight cars and Streamliners" by David Randall and Alan R. Lynd. (Prototype Publications,
Park Forest, Ill., 1972)
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3) "Railway Passenger Car Annual, Vol. 1, 1973-1974. Intercity Mainline and Commuter Rosters." by W. David Randall and Zenon
R. Hansen. (RPC Publications, 1974)
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4) "Streamline, Le Design American Des Annees 30-40." by Olivier Boissiere. Photos, b/w and color, of streamline, art deco
objects and designers (Rivages/Styles, Paris, 1987)
Folder 302
Reports on transportation: Harvard University and Northwestern University School of Commerce.
1945-1952
Three reports: 1) "A Survey in Seating, Instituted by Heywood-Wakefield Company and Conducted by Dr. Earnest A. Hooton and
Staff of Harvard University Department of Anthropology, Statistical Laboratory." Detailed report of research, by famous physical
anthropologist, on adults selected in Boston and Chicago. Statistical tables, photos, drawings. Recommendations for manufacture
of seats for coach trains (Walsh Press, Boston, 1945); 2) "Diesel Motor Trains." An economic evaluation by Stanley Berge
and Donald Loftus of the Northwestern University School of Commerce. Study of self-propelled trains that operated without
locomotives (1949); 3) "Self-Propelled Diesel Cars and Multiple-Unit Trains." (Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL.,1952).
Folder 303
Railroad books: Train Shed Cyclopedia.
1973-1974
Includes (selected items): three volumes. Reproductions of photographs and drawings from early-20th-century magazines and
manufacturer's catalogs.
Folder 304
Railroad books: various.
1973-1988
Three books: 1) "Midwest Florida Sunliners" by R. Lyle Key Jr. Historical overview and brief descriptions of passenger trains
that ran between Midwestern cities (Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Grand Rapids, Detroit) and Florida. (160 p., 1979); 2)
"Diesel Rail Traction, an illustrated history of diesel locomotives, rail-cars, and trains." by W.J.K. Davies (Almark Publications,
U.K. (104 p., 1973); 3) "Great Rail Trips of the World" by Charles & Babette Jacobs. Reviews many named train routes in several
regions (146 p., 1988).
Folder 305
Railroad books: various.
1972; 1975
Two books: 1) "Streamlined Steam, Quadrant Press Review 1." Photographs of shrouded (streamlined) steam locomotives, brief
descriptions and dates of their conversions (exterior shrouding). ["Commodore Vanderbilt" named as America's first steam streamliner,
December 1934.] (1972); 2) "The Streamlined Decade" by Donald J. Bush (George Braziller, New York, 1975).
Folder 306
Railroad books: De Spoorwegen series.
1965-1968
Series of five books, published in Holland. Titles are:
- 1) "De spoorwegen van West-en Noord-Europa." (Europe) 112 p., 1965
- 2) "De spoorwegen van Midden-en Zuid-Europa." (Europe) 112 p., 1965
- 3) "De spoorwegen van de United States en Canada." 104 p., 1966
- 4) "De spoorwegen van Afrika." (Africa) 88 p., 1967
- 5) "De spoorwegen van Azie en Australie." (Asia to Australia). 128 p., 1968
Folder 307
Passenger Train Journal.
1970-1972
Six issues of quarterly Passenger Train Journal, published in Washington D.C.
Folder 308
Passenger Train Journal.
1973-1984
11 issues of quarterly Passenger Train Journal, published in Washington D.C.
Folder 309
Passenger Train Annual.
1975; 1979(?)
Two issues of Passenger Train Annual, by publishers of Passenger Train Journal.
Folder 310
Railway Age Magazine.
1939-1946
Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains. Topics include streamlined trains; new lightweight equipment;
speeds of streamlined name trains; new construction materials and structures; routes of streamliners.
Box 18
Magazines; Clippings; Catalogs; Ephemera; Excursion Trains
Folder 311
Railway Age Magazine.
1947-1953
Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains.
Folder 312
Trains Magazine.
Late 1940s-1978
Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains.
Folder 313
Clippings, journals, special publications.
1946-1991
Folder 314
Models, toys and collectibles.
Includes (selected items): two catalogs: "The Ward Kimball Train & Toy Collection Auction Catalog" parts 1 and 2, (Noel Barrett
Antiques and Auctions Ltd., May 27-28, 2005).
Folder 315
Cigarette cards (Great Britain).
Includes (selected items): cigarette cards in "An Album of Railway Engines" issued by W.D. and H.O. Wills; also a group of
cards issued by Gallaher Limited (Virginia House, London and Belfast).
Folder 316
Railroad fairs, organizations, museums (United States).
1939-1999
Includes (selected items): "New York World's Fair - 1939, Railroads on Parade"; "Chicago Railroad Fair, 1848, Stirring Celebration
of 100 Years of Railroad Progress, 1948"; "Chicago Railroad Fair, 1849. 2nd Great Year"; "Railfair '91, Sacramento, California"
(1991).
Folder 317
Auto Train.
1972-1980
Auto-Train was a short-lived, independent corporation promoting trains to carry automobiles and people. Later it was affiliated
with Amtrak.
Folder 318
Minnesota Centennial Train.
1958
Includes (selected items): pamphlet: "Minnesota Centennial Train, 1858 - 1958. A Century of Statehood, Frontier of the Future."
The train promotes the state's one-hundredth birthday. Minnesota's history, resources, agriculture and food products, industry,
social progress, future (1958).
Folder 319
Freedom Trains.
1947-1975
Includes train(s): Freedom Trains (1947 and 1975); More Power to America Special; Preamble Express.
Includes (selected items): photographs; pamphlet: "The American Heritage Program for Your Community. Advance Copy." Explains
programs of American Heritage Foundation, plans for the Freedom Train of 1947" (1947); "The American Freedom Train, Official
Commemorative Program, 1975/1976." Includes descriptions of locomotives used-- Southern Pacific no. 4449 and Reading's T-1
series no. 2101 (1975).
Folder 320
Napa Valley Wine Train.
1989-2000
Includes (selected items): brochures promoting a train of dining and lounge cars that travels slowly between Napa and St.
Helena, California, past vineyards and wineries.
Folder 321
Excursion Trains (United States).
1990s-2008
Also called Special Trains, "Rail Tours," "Private Touring Trains." Brochures and pamphlets about trips across United States.
Folder 322
Excursion Trains (United States).
1990s-2008
Folder 323
Excursion Trains (Canada).
1997-2008
Folder 324
Excursion Trains (Foreign).
1980s-2008
Box 19
Early "streamline" inventions; Monorails; U.S. Design patents; Interurban rail projects
Folder 325
Early "streamline" inventions - Various.
1880s-1952
Includes materials on: Frederick U. Adams, and his "Windsplitter." Built by B&O in Baltimore, and patented in early 1893.
Smooth and continuous exterior surfaces. Includes photographs and copies of patent documents for "Railway Car And Train"
with drawings and text (1893). Also materials on "Air and Atmosphere Cars"; Thomas McBride's "Observatory Cars" (1891); E.Y.
Robbins Cylindrical Iron and Steel Safety Car pamphlet (copy) and photograph (1888); David G. Weems -"Needle Point" locomotive
drawings and photographs; patent applications by W.B. Jupp (1927, Car Body), Charles H. Davis (1897, Electric-Railway Car),
George J. Capewell (1900, Railway-Car Body); pamphlet and clippings on Sir Henry Bessemer.
Related Material
See also reproductions of Bessemer's drawings in "Posters and Prints," 646607_153 and 646607_154.
Folder 326
Early "streamline" inventions - Samuel R. Calthrop - "Air Resisting Train".
1888-1942
Materials on Samuel R. Calthrop and his aerodynamic-designed train. Calthrop, a Unitarian minister in Syracuse, N.Y., invented
a train with a tapered profile, the "Air Resisting Train." Both front and rear of train are drawn to points, paneled all around,
with bellows covering spaces between cars, flush doors, and other features of "streamlined trains" in use many years later.
Includes photographs.
Folder 327
Early "streamline" inventions - William Riley McKeen Jr. - McKeen Motor Car.
1907-2005
Assorted articles, letters, diagrams, drawings, photographs, rosters about the McKeen Motor Cars and the company that built
them. McKeen was superintendent of motive power for Union Pacific and in 1905, designed a gasoline-powered motor car for short
branch lines. In 1908 the McKeen Motor Car Co. was formed, creating "streamlined" cars for various railroads. Includes copy
of patent application for McKeen's design (1907). [This is probably the M-10 model]; blueprint of cross section and side view
of McKeen Car no. 7 (June 4, 1912); color snapshots of McKeen's former house in Santa Barbara, Ca. (2005); spiral bound booklet
- "Virginia & Truckee Railway, McKeen Motor Car No. 2, Restoration Feasibility Investigation." Prepared for the Nevada State
Railroad Museum by Stephen E. Drew. Published by Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum (1997). Illustrations, drawings,
plans.
Folder 328
Early "streamline" inventions - William Riley McKeen Jr. - McKeen Motor Car.
bulk 1949-1950
Collection of correspondence between William M. Schopp (writer for Model Railroad Supplies, Trenton, N.J. approximately 1949
to 1952) and others regarding research on W.R. McKeen. Other correspondents include: C.T. Stoner, Paul Bischeld, Edward A.
Downs, Paul Rigdon (Union Pacific Railroad), C.E. Beverage, H.B Parker, Al Phelps, Frank C. Harmer, G.P. Trachta (Rock Island
Railroad). Mostly about technical details of McKeen cars; includes Schopp's typescript draft on McKeen.
Folder 329
Early "streamline" inventions - Joe V. Meigs - Meigs Elevated Railway.
1880s-1966
Joseph "Joe" V. Meigs of Lowell, Massachusetts submitted an application in 1884 to patent a steam-powered, "post-supported"
elevated monorail train intended for rapid transit use in Boston. Materials include: U.S. Patent Office report. Joe V. Meigs.
"Railway" drawings and specifications (18 p., 1885); "General (George) Stark's Report, Meigs Elevated Railway, Eighteenth
Annual Report of the Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners." (1887); "A Condensed Review of Rapid Transit and the Meigs Elevated
Railway, Prepared For The Legislature of 1888" by the Meigs Co. (1888); "Rapid Transit Made Plain; Interrogations propounded
by a Member of the Legislature to Capt. Joe V. Meigs, And By Him Answered." Testimony with drawings (1894); prospectus titled
"Complements of Meigs Elevated Railway Construction Co...." Inside, "An Account of Progress." (1886); "Memorandum of the visit
to Boston of the Committee on Railroads... of the City of Philadelphia.... to inspect... the Meigs [Railway]." (1887); printed
report by H. Haupt, Consulting Engineer. On back: Printed request by Meigs for information on legality of his design and Judge
Thomas Russell's reply (1883); copy photographs of the Meigs railway and demonstration site in East Cambridge, Mass.; clippings,
ordinances from 1880s newspapers (from a scrapbook once owned by Meigs).
Related Material
See also large copy photograph and drawings in "Posters and Prints," 646607_155 and 646607_156.
Folder 330
Monorails.
1956-1986
Includes (selected items): photographs; Disneyland and Walt Disney World; Seattle World's Fair (1962); Houston monorail (1956);
Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida; others.
Folder 331
U.S. Design patents.
1934-1970
Copies of various aerodynamic car patent filings: Norman Bel Geddes, Railway Car (1934); George W. Walker, Locomotive. Futuristic,
bullet shaped (1945); John Markestein. Locomotive Body (1945); Donald W. Doman, Alfred B. Girardy, Ralph E. Meyers. Observation
Car Body for Pullman-Standard (1951); many others.
Folder 332
Interurban rail projects; High speed train proposals and experiments, miscellaneous.
1933-1981
Includes (selected items): photographs; brochures and clippings pertaining to early rapid transit systems, high speed trains
and train manufacturers. Includes 1933 report: "High Speed Railway Service: Its Problems and Perplexities." (by Southern and
Southwestern Railway Club, Atlanta, Georgia).
Folder 333
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco Bay Area).
1961-1984
Includes (selected items): brochures on the BART commuter railway system, which began public operation in 1972 using Rohr
and Westinghouse equipment. Includes: brochure- "The Bay Area Rapid Transit Design Car" (pre-1968); "B.A.R.T., the Initial
Stages: Plans, Start Construction Tests..." Western Railroader (Three issues, 1956, 1964, 1965); "All About BART" (1981 and
1984); snapshot photographs of BART equipment before system began operating; "Rapid Transit, an information digest from the
Bay Area Rapid Transit District" (1971); others.
III. Railroads, Foreign
Physical Description: 4 boxes.
Scope and Content Note
Mainly passenger brochures, manufacturers' booklets and photographs.
Arrangement
Files have been kept in the collector's original arrangement. They are arranged alphabetically by country or region. Photographs
are filed in the same folders with printed material.
Folder 334
Africa, Near East.
1963-1999
Includes train(s): The Blue Train; The Drakensberg Express. Includes photographs and route guides for the Blue Train (Pretoria
and Johannesburg to Cape Town, 1974); several other South African Railways brochures; Namibia, Egypt and others. Note: No
people of color are shown in most of the photos of these materials until a 1989 brochure on the Blue Train.
Folder 335
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania.
1937-1988
Includes train(s): The Ghan; Trans Australian; The Queensland; The Sunlander; The Westlander; The Capricornian; The Overland;
Canberra Link; The Vinelander; The Indian Pacific; others. Includes (selected items): photographs; Southern Cross Express
(Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne); The XPT Experience, Sydney to Dubbo; The Victorian Railways (1937?); New Zealand Railways;
Australian National Locomotives (Tasmania); The Darling Harbour Monorail, TNT Harbourlink (Sydney); others.
Folder 336
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania.
1951-2000
Includes (selected items): photographs; book: "South Australian Railways, Locomotives, Steam and Diesel, Electric and Rolling
Stock" (1964); brochures: Trans-Australian Railway; Commonwealth Railways; Tasmanian Railway Passenger Services, The Tasman
Limited; New South Wales Government Railways; blueprints of locomotives.
Folder 337
Canada: Canadian National; VIA Rail.
1954-1982
Includes train(s): Ocean Limited; Bonaventure; Lakeshore; Cavalier; Premier; Super Continental; International Limited; The
Montrealer.
Folder 338
Canada: Canadian National; VIA Rail.
1957-1992
Folder 339
Canada: Canadian National; VIA Rail.
1952-1980
Includes train(s): Super Continental; Champlain; Rapido; Turbotrain.
Folder 340
Canada: Canadian National.
1967
Includes booklet only (disbound): "CN Passenger Car Equipment, Passenger Sales and Services, Passenger Equipment Development."
Inside: "This book has been produced as a guide to passenger sales and services." Summary of Canadian National Passenger Equipment
(5 p.), diagrams and information on cars (152 p.), alphabetical listing of named cars (12 p.). Includes 36 pages of b/w photos.
(Headquarters: Montreal, 1967).
Folder 341
Canada: Canadian Pacific.
1938-1955
Includes train(s): The Canadian; others. Includes (selected items): photographs; manufacturers brochures: Budd RDC, Budd Dome
Car, Budd delivers 173 various cars, Electromet (metals) (1950s).
Folder 342
Canada: Canadian Pacific.
1936-1969
Includes train(s): The Canadian; The Royal York; The Dominion. Includes brochures: "Announcing The Royal York, new lightweight,
semi-streamlined, steam train with air-conditioned coaches between Toronto and Detroit." Jubilee locomotive described (1936);
"The Canadian Streamliner and other Canadian Pacific Equipment." (1960s); "Trains...and the travelling public. CP Rail." Describes
CP's efforts to discontinue "uneconomic passenger services" (1960s).
Folder 343
Canada: Shorter Canadian railroads; Excursion and touring trains.
approximately 1950s-1960s
Includes materials on: Ontario Northland; Quebec Central; Quebec North Shore and Labrador; Dominion Atlantic; Pacific Great
Eastern; British Columbia Railway; others. Book: "The Budd RDC in Canada" by Raymond Corley (1967).
Folder 344
Cuba.
1948
Consists of: Ferrocarriles Consolidados de Cuba guidebook (1948), in Spanish.
Folder 345
Europe: France.
1948-1994
Includes train(s): Le Mistral; TGV. Includes (selected items): pamphlets: "French National Railroads." Aimed at American audience.
Brief history, wartime destruction, reconstruction (1948); "The Channel Conquest, La Conquete De La Manche." History and building
of the tunnel ("Chunnel") under the English Channel. (1994); materials on Turbotrain T.G.V., others."
Folder 346
Europe: France.
1938-2001
Includes train(s): Le Mistral; TGV; Sud-Express; Train Bleu; others. Includes photographs.
Folder 347
Europe: France.
1938-2001
Folder 348
Europe: France.
1955; 1966
Books:
- 1) "Les Chemins de fer en France." In French (1955)
-
2) "The railways of France" published by French National Railways (1966)
Folder 349
Europe: Germany.
1938-1984
Includes train(s): Rheingold; Fern Express; others. Includes photographs.
Folder 350
Europe: Germany.
1935-1978
Folder 351
Europe: Germany.
1963-1971
Books:
-
1) "Krauss-Maffei Diesel Hydraulic ML - 4000 C'C'." Operating manual republished by Old Line Publishers, Milwaukee, WI (1963)
-
2) "Trans Europ Express, TEE, Der Werdegang des TEE-Betriebe." By Dr. Fritz Stockl (1971)
-
3) "Locomotives--Lokomotiven... Made In Germany." Catalog of locomotives made for railroads in various countries (1966)
Folder 352
Europe: Great Britain. London and North Eastern Railway; London Midland and Scottish Railway; Great Western Railway.
1933-1977
Includes train(s): Royal Scot; Coronation Scot; Silver Jubilee; West Riding Limited. Includes (selected items): brochure:
"'The Coronation' - Britain's First Streamline Train, King's Cross For Scotland ... London and North Eastern Railway" (1937).
Folder 353
Europe: Great Britain. British Railways.
1958-2001
Folder 354
Europe: Great Britain. British Railways.
1958-2001
Folder 355
Europe: Great Britain. British Railways; Stockton and Darlington Railway; London Transport.
1960-1975
Includes (selected items): "The Story of the Victoria Line" by John R. Day. Construction of new subway line in London in the
1960s. Maps, photos, text; published by London Transport (1969).
Folder 356
Europe: Great Britain. British Rail; London Underground; Glasgow Underground.
1934-1982
Folder 357
Europe: Great Britain. England, various.
1951-1989
Folder 358
Europe: Great Britain. England, various.
1939-1977
Folder 359
Europe: Great Britain. England, various.
1936-1975
Folder 360
Europe: Great Britain. England, various.
1960s-1980s
Folder 361
Europe: Ireland, CIE (Coras Iompair Eireann).
1965-1983
Includes train(s): Super Train. Includes photographs.
Folder 362
Europe: Ireland, various.
1965-1970
Three books:
- 1) "Railway History in Pictures, Ireland, Volume 2." by Alan McCutcheon. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1970)
-
2) "Irish Railways Today" by Brendan Pender and Herbert Richards (Dublin 6, Transport Research Associates, 1967)
-
3) "Standard Gauge Railways in the North of Ireland" by R.G. Morton. (No. 5 Transport Handbook, Belfast Museum & Art Gallery,
1965)
Folder 363
Europe: Italy.
1951-1984
Includes (selected items): photographs; materials on Italian State Railways; "Le Ferrovie Italian Dello Stato Chemins De Fer
Italiene De L'Etat Italian State Railways." History, economics, operations, and physical description of the system since 1839
(1952); others.
Folder 364
Europe: Italy.
1930s - 1950s
Includes (selected items): brochures and photographs for Breda trains and equipment, such as "Breda, Elettrotreno ETR 30,"
with fold-out footprints and elevations for a streamlined electric train (1953); "Breda, Automotrice Breda Con Motore A Nafta,"
photos, descriptions of diesel rail cars (1934, 1935); others.
Folder 365
Europe: Italy.
1954
Includes (selected items): book (newspaper print): "Orario Ferroviario Italiano" Nationwide timetable for rail, trams, ships.
Maps, advertising. (450 p., 1954).
Folder 366
Europe: Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden).
1954-1989
Includes (selected items): photographs; materials on Finnish State Railways (1961); Norwegian State Railways; Swedish State
Railways; Danske Statsbaner (1964); "Hillerod Privatbaner" (Denmark, 1965); others.
Folder 367
Europe: Spain; Portugal.
1952-1988
Includes (selected items): photographs; materials on the Spanish National Railway system (Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles
Espanoles--RENFE); Book: "Railways In Spain, 1848-1958." Addressed to delegates of a meeting in Madrid of the International
Railways Congress; others.
Folder 368
Europe: Switzerland.
1948-2002
Includes photographs. Materials include "Jungfrau Railway, Switzerland." History and description of mountain railway route
(1940s?); electric railways; Swiss Federal Railways; book: "Railway Electrification In Switzerland, with Special Reference
to the Swiss Federal Railways and their Rolling-Stock. Paper Read before the Institution of Locomotive Engineers by H. Loosli,
Swiss Federal Railways" (1954).
Box 23
Europe (continued), Japan, Mexico and South America, Middle East and India, Far East
Folder 369
Eastern Europe; Greece; Russia; Turkey.
1951-1994
Folder 370
Western Europe; Belgium; the Netherlands; Luxembourg.
1953-1977
Folder 371
Europe, various.
1951-1974
Includes (selected items): booklet: "Ganz Railway-Carriage Manufacturers and Mechanical Engineers, Budapest [Hungary]" Maker
of rail cars and trains for various countries. Four fold-out profiles and floor plans.(1951?); brochures on rail systems for
cross-Europe travel.
Folder 372
"European Railways" magazine.
1956-1968
Includes 43 issues (dates not inclusive).
Folder 373
Japan.
1952-1992
Includes photographs. Includes materials on Japanese National Railways; trial monorail at Tokyo Zoo; others.
Folder 375
Japan.
1969
Includes (selected items): book: "The Lure Of Japan's Railways" by Naotaka Hirota (Tokyo, The Japan Times, Ltd., 1969).
Folder 376
Mexico; South America.
1948-2001
Includes photographs and several 1960s brochures for Mexico railways.
Folder 377
Middle East; India.
1943-1986
Includes photographs. Materials on Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, India. Timetable: "Iraqi State Railways Public Time Table for Principal
Stations" (1952); snapshots and photographs of trains in Iraq; blueprints for Iraqi State Railways - Standard Gauge..." (1943);
Indian Railways photographs; others.
Folder 378
Middle East.
1951-1954
Includes photographs and materials on Ceylon and Pakistan.
Folder 379
Far East; Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, China.
1937-1993
Includes (selected items): book: "Royal State Railways of Siam, Fiftieth Anniversary, 1897-1947" (1947); "South Manchuria
Railway Company" guidebook (1938); snapshot photographs of trains in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Manila.
IV. Oversize and miscellaneous items
Physical Description: 3 boxes.
Scope and Content Note
Boxes 24, 28, 29: Oversize materials. Boxes 25 and 26 contain Merrill's file cards of records of his collection. Box 27 contains
commercially-produced color slides and film reels of 1950s trains.
Box 24
Oversize materials, various.
1940s-1970s
All items in this box are 15 x 18 inches or smaller and include railroad pamphlets; advertising prints and clippings from
1940s magazines; and
Leslie Merrill's scrapbook of streamliner clippings (1934-1938). The box includes photographs.
Materials on Western Maryland Railway Company's fast freight line (1952?); "Train Album of Photographs: Railroads of Chicago"
(1950); California Zephyr Vista-Dome brochure;
General Motors' diesel "Train of Tomorrow"; California Western Railroad "Skunk Train" broadsides; Pullman-Standard Company
portfolio of print advertisements, "Tops in Streamliners" (1941);
Western Pacific Railroad Company Finance docket 25784, California Zephyr Advertising and Promotions (1968-1969); American
Locomotive Company (Alco) line of diesel-electric engines;
Two photographs of the Pioneer Zephyr (1949); color promotional illustrations of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
Railroad streamliner trains; Amtrak promotional train
display (1970s?); and tearsheets of advertisements from magazines (1940s).
Box 28
Oversize materials, various.
1882-1888, undated
Contains Western Pacific Railroad Company's "Chronology: California Zephyr" (undated) and loose material related to Joe V.
Meigs and the Elevated Railway in Massachusetts, which includes ephemera, newspaper clippings, articles, and legislative documents
(1882-1889).
Box 29
Oversize materials, various.
1888
Contains one scrapbook, "Articles concerning Meigs Railway at Philadelphia" (1888). Fragile condition.
Box 25
Leslie Merrill's catalog cards (Box 1 of 2).
Leslie Merrill's personal records of items collected, on typed 3 x 5" catalog cards.
It is unclear when he started or stopped making the cards or if all the items listed on the cards are present now in this
collection. Merrill's personal numbering system on the cards is no longer relevant.
Box 26
Leslie Merrill's catalog cards (Box 2 of 2).
Box 27
Color slides and films.
1950s
Access Information
RESTRICTED. These materials have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for viewing must be made in advance.
Color 35mm slides - Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
1950s
Two sets of 20 color slides of trains published by Blackhawk Films, Davenport, Iowa:
- "350-217. From Denver to Glenwood Springs" (20 slides)
- "350-465. The California Zephyr in Feather River Canyon." (20 slides)
Color 8mm train films (various railroads).
1950s
Four 8mm train films published by Blackhawk Films, Davenport, Iowa. Titles and numbers are:
- "Southern Pacific from San Francisco Bay to Roseville. 810-460"
- "At Hub of Burlington. 810 77 1093. 37 3237"
- "Some Early Streamliners. 810-406"
- "The Coast Daylight in the Days of Steam. 810-628"
V. Prints and posters
Physical Description: 165 items.
Merrill wrote that he obtained approximately 90% of these posters before 1950 (letter dated Feb. 13, 2007, in collection file).
All items were treated by the Conservation Department and have been flattened and sleeved in mylar. There are three very large
lithographic posters,
over 50 inches wide, for the London and North Eastern Railway, 1930s (646607_43, 646607_44, 646607_45), which are stored
separately. At the end of the list are a small group of promotional prints for manufacturers, and
two drawings and a photograph regarding early streamline inventions.
Arrangement
Items are arranged into two groups by size: Large (approximately 20 x 24 inches to 40 x 50 inches) and
small (approximately 18 x 24 inches and smaller). Within those groups, items are arranged by railroad name (United States
railroads first, then foreign). There is a small group of manufacturers' prints at the end.
646607_01
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. [Photographic image of the "San Francisco Chief" diesel electric locomotive
and train with "war bonnet" styling.].
Approximately 1939
646607_02
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. [Photographic image of five streamliners lined up in rail yard.]
646607_03
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. General Motors Locomotives. 5400 H.P Diesel Freight Locomotive Designed and
Built by Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of a four-unit locomotive,
black with yellow lines, Santa Fe engine No. 100.]
646607_04
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. [Photographic image of diesel locomotive and train.]
646607_05
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. Santa Fe Diesel-Electric Freight Locomotive Hauling Heavy Freight Train Through
Cajon Pass, California. [Illustration of four-unit locomotive pulling long train around large sweeping curve.]
646607_06
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. Santa Fe Streamliners Link the West / Super Chief, Chief, El Capitan, Chicagoan,
Kansas Cityan, San Diegan, Golden Gate. [Photographic image of two-unit diesel engine and passenger train approaching semaphore
signal; printed in green ink.]
646607_07
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. [Illustration of Atlantic Coast Line's "The Champion" - streamlined locomotive in maroon
and gray.].
Approximately 1939
646607_08
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Photograph of "Royal Blue" train crossing Patapsco River on stone railroad bridge Thomas
Viaduct near Relay, Maryland. Shows engine no. 51, the first streamlined diesel locomotive unit built (1937).
1938
646607_09
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Division, General
Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of diesel-electric engine no. 5 with warplanes in sky and image
of U.S. Capitol building rising above train.].
Approximately 1940s
646607_09a
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. (duplicate of 646607_09)
646607_10
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Ride the Crusader, Clad in Shining Armor / Stainless Steel Streamlined Train Between
New York and Philadelphia / Luxurious Comfort with Economy. [Illustration of locomotive and armor-clad knight.].
1938
646607_11
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. World's Finest Fleet of Trains / Streamliners / City of Denver fastest long distance
train / 16 hours between Chicago and Colorado - Daily / City of Los Angeles / City of San Francisco / City of Portland … [Illustration
of streamliners]
646607_12
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. The Famous Streamliner "400" / Chicago and North Western Line. [Illustration]
646607_13
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. Ride the "400" Fleet / Chicago and North Western Line. [Illustration of diesel-electric
locomotive.].
1942
646607_14
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road). Some Day, Dad, I'll Ride On The Hiawatha.
[The Milwaukee Road logo in corner; illustration of boy, father and dog watching train go by.]
646607_15
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also called The Milwaukee Road). General Motors Locomotives. 4000 H.P Diesel
Passenger Locomotive Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Corporation, Subsidiary of General Motors. [Illustration of "The
Milwaukee Road" two-unit diesel-electric locomotive.].
1941
646607_16
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. [Photographic image of California Zephyr in Glenwood Canyon, along Colorado
River, Colorado. A four-unit diesel locomotive pulls train by the Vista-Dome Monument.].
Approximately 1949 - 1969
646607_17
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. [Photographic image of California Zephyr with five Vista-Dome cars pulled
by a five-unit diesel locomotive near Winter Park, Colorado.].
Approximately 1949 - 1969
646607_18
Great Northern Railway Company. The Empire Builder along Puget Sound / The Streamlined Empire Builder Between Chicago, Seattle,
Portland via St. Paul, Minneapolis and Spokane. [Photographic image of two-unit diesel-electric locomotive no. 503 and train
close to lake.].
Approximately 1949
Note: this version of the Empire Builder began running in 1949.
646607_19
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. The Eagle / St. Louis, Kansas City, Lincoln, St. Joseph, Omaha. [Illustration of locomotive
and cars, side view]
646607_20
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. The Colorado Eagle / St. Louis - Colorado. [Illustration of locomotive and cars, side
view]
646607_21
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Route of the Eagles. [Illustration of locomotive travelling under signal.]
646607_22
New York Central Railroad Company. Commodore Vanderbilt / World's First Streamlined High-powered Steam Locomotive / Used On
Twentieth Century Limited. [Photograph of locomotive, side view, mounted on board.]
646607_23
New York Central Railroad Company. The New Empire State Express / New York Central System. [Illustration. Leslie Ragan, artist.].
1941
646607_23a
New York Central Railroad Company. (duplicate of 646607_23).
1941
646607_24
New York Central Railroad Company. Highlands of the Hudson / New York Central System. [Illustration. Leslie Ragan, artist.]
646607_25
New York Central Railroad Company. The New Twentieth Century Limited / New York - 16 hours - Chicago / New York Central System.
[Illustration. Leslie Ragan, artist.]
646607_26
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Pennsylvania Railroad Presents a Fleet of Modernism … Broadway Limited ... [Illustration of
Pullman cars with drawings of interiors and promotional text.].
1938
646607_27
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Steel King [Illustration of streamlined locomotive].
1946
646607_28
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Working Partners [Illustration of two locomotives passing a town].
1946
646607_29
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. One Hundred Years / 1846-1946 / Pennsylvania Railroad [Illustration of older and newer locomotives.].
1946
646607_30
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The most comfortable way! The most relaxed people travel Broadway Limited … [Illustration]
646607_31
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Preview! A Postwar Passenger Engine … the "T-1" [Photographic image of train].
Approximately 1946
646607_32
Seaboard Railway Company. The First Electric Powered New York - Florida Train / 1938 [Illustration of "Orange Blossom Special"
and citrus trees.].
1938
646607_33
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. [Blueprint drawings and specifications for lettering and numbering of gasoline motor cars
and trailers (Sacramento, Ca., Dec. 17, 1908; rev. 1913)].
1908; rev. 1913
Profiles and end views appear to be different models of McKeen motor cars, shown with lettering for Southern Pacific. / Standard
Roman fonts of different sizes.
646607_34
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Southern Pacific's Streamlined Daylights ... [Illustration]
646607_35
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Southern Pacific's Streamlined Daylight / Los Angeles to San Francisco [Illustration]
646607_36
Wabash Railway Company. Wabash Streamliner "City of St. Louis" passing through Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo…. [Illustration]
646607_37
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Union Pacific Streamliner "City of Denver" [Illustration]
646607_38
Great Britain: British Rail. Catch Tomorrow's Train Today … [Photographic image of "Inter-City" interurban passenger car interior
features, with promotional text].
June 1971
646607_39
Great Britain: British Rail. High Speed Train / Speed for the Seventies … [Photographic image of "Inter-City" interurban passenger
car exterior, with promotional text].
May 1974
646607_40
Great Britain: London and North Eastern Railway. "The Silver Jubilee" / Britain's First Streamline Train … [Illustration.
Reproduction of 1935 poster, printed in 1968.].
1968
646607_41
Great Britain: London and North Eastern Railway. LNER / Take Me By the Flying Scotsman / Leaves King's Cross at 10 A.M. every
Week-Day … [Illustration. Reproduction of 1935 poster, printed in 1968.].
1968
646607_42
Great Britain: (various). Six Old Time Posters: A Fine Collection of Full Colour Reprints of Original Old British Travel Posters.
[Six illustrated posters reproduced on one sheet, with descriptive text].
1968
Related Material
See also two of the full reproduction posters: 646607_40 and 646607_41.
646607_43
Great Britain: London and North Eastern Railway. The Four Streamliners / L-N-E-R Achievement / All For Your Further Comfort
/ "East Anglian" / "The Coronation"/ "The Silver Jubilee" / "West Riding Limited" [Illustration. Tom Purvis, artist; Jarrold
& Sons, printer).
Approximately 1937
646607_44
Great Britain: London and North Eastern Railway. "The Coronation" On the East Coast Entering Scotland / It's Quicker by Rail
… [Illustration. Frank H. Mason, artist; Jordison and Co., Ltd., printer].
Approximately 1937
646607_45
Great Britain: London and North Eastern Railway. "The Coronation" Crossing the Royal Border Bridge / Burwick-Upon-Tweed /
It's Quicker by Rail … [Illustration. Tom Purvis, artist; Jarrold & Sons, printer].
Approximately 1937
646607_46
Ireland: C.I.É. [Córas Iompair Éireann]. New Inter-City Express Trains between Galway and Dublin … [Illustration of interurban
train]
646607_46a
Ireland: C.I.É. [Córas Iompair Éireann]. (duplicate of 646607_46)
646607_47
Ireland: C.I.É. [Córas Iompair Éireann]. Ireland Welcomes You / CIE / Ireland's Transport Company [Illustration of interurban
train]
646607_48
Ireland: C.I.É. [Córas Iompair Éireann]. New Supertrain / Travel the Tomorroway Today / CIE [Photographic image of interurban
train on bridge over Avonmore River]
646607_49
Ireland: C.I.É. [Córas Iompair Éireann]. By Train Clear Road Ahead / CIE / Published by Swiss Federal Railways on behalf of
the European Railways [Illustration of interurban train].
1968
646607_50
Turkey: TCDD [Turkish State Railways]. Motorlu Trenlerle ... ["by motor train"] [Turkish language promotional poster showing
illustration of interurban train and lists of timetables. The flag of Turkey is on front of train.].
1953
646607_51
Turkey: TCDD [Turkish State Railways]. Motorlu Tren / Seyyahatini Tercih Ediniz... [Turkish language promotional poster showing
illustration of people sitting in a dining car and exterior of an interurban train. The flag of Turkey is on front of train.].
1953
U.S. Railroads - Small
Majority 46 x 61 cm. (18 x 24 inches and smaller.
646607_52
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. The Champion / Atlantic Coast Line Railroad [Illustration of streamliner locomotive
next to interurban train].
Approximately 1939
646607_53
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. The Largest Fleet of Winter Trains Provides Complete Service / Florida and the South
… [Majority is promotional text, with some illustrations].
1939
646607_54
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. General Motors Locomotives / 2000 H.P. Diesel Passenger Locomotive / Designed
and Built by Electro-Motive Division / General Motors, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration].
Approximately 1950s
646607_55
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. The Famous Streamliner "400" / Chicago and North Western Line. [Illustration]
646607_56
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. Chicago and North Western Line / Routes of the New "400" Fleet. [Illustration of
diesel engine and train superimposed on map of routes from Chicago to Minneapolis]
646607_57
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. Chicago and North Western Line [Illustration of three different locomotives inside
Chicago station, with passengers walking around.].
Approximately late 1930s
646607_58
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. America's Finest Train / The New "400"/ Chicago - St. Paul - Minneapolis Via Milwaukee,
No Extra Fare / Leaves Chicago Daily at 3 P.M. [Illustration of diesel locomotive pulling eight cars].
1939
646607_59
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. The Steamliners [sic] "North Western's" New Giant Locomotives in Service on Los
Angeles Challenger, San Francisco Challenger, Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose, The Fortyniner. [Illustration
of nine streamlined steam locomotives (4-6-0) lined up.].
1938
646607_60
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. Now in Service! America's Newest Streamliner the Dakota "400" / Daily Departures
[Illustration]
646607_61
Chicago and North Western Railway Company. General Motors Locomotives / 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive / Designed and
Built by Electro-motive Division General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of four-unit diesel
locomotive no. 5401]
646607_62
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. The Pioneer Zephyr - Daddy of 'em All / First Diesel Streamline Train in
America 1934 - Tenth Anniversary - 1944. [Illustration].
1944
646607_63
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. [Illustration of Pioneer Zephyr and military workers unloading freight]
646607_64
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. [Illustration of Pioneer Zephyr and woman touching up her makeup in reflection
off train. (Metal strip at top of poster suggests this was a calendar picture.)]
646607_65
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. "Renascence" [Illustration of Burlington Zephyr no. 9900 leaving Lincoln,
Nebraska with Nebraska State Capitol building in background].
1934
646607_66
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. ["Burlington" across bottom of print. Illustration of Zephyr "Silver King"
locomotive and train.].
1939
646607_67
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. ["Burlington" across bottom of print. Illustration of Zephyr "Silver King"
locomotive and train departing a city at night]
646607_68
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. ["Burlington" across bottom of print. Illustration of Zephyr locomotive with
headlight shining in snowstorm; caboose of freight train on right track.]
646607_69
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. ["Burlington" across bottom of print. Illustration of three Burlington locomotives
(steam; diesel-electric Zephyr; stainless-steel clad steam Aolus) emerging from Western mountain landscape.].
Approximately late 1930s
646607_70
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. Burlington Zephyrs / America's Distinctive Trains / Stainless Steel, Diesel
Powered [Illustration of locomotive with "Burlington Route" logo on front.].
Approximately late 1930s
646607_71
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. 87 Years of Service / Rock island Lines… [Illustration of "The Rocket"
diesel locomotive running on adjacent track to a steam locomotive.].
1940
646607_72
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Here Comes The Rocket! / Timken Roller Bearing Company, Canton, Ohio [Illustration
of two young women in a convertible stopped at crossing wave at Rock Island train, a 4-car stainless steel streamliner].
1939
646607_73
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. The Rock Island Rocket [Illustration of diesel locomotive pulling four
stainless steel passenger cars]
646607_73.1
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. Now in Service on All Mainline Trains! Lackawanna's Great New Fleet of
Deluxe Streamlined Coaches … Lackawanna Railroad, The Route of Phoebe Snow [Illustration of passengers in coach interiors.].
Approximately 1949
646607_74
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. California Zephyr, Glenwood Canyon of the Colorado River [Photographic image
of train in canyon]
646607_75
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. The Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River, Colorado -- Main Line Denver and Rio
Grande Western Railroad [Photographic image of diesel locomotive pulling seven passenger cars through a narrow canyon.]
646607_76
Florida East Coast Railway Company. The Modern Double Track Railroad / Florida East Coast Railway / New Streamliners, Diesel
Power, Faster Trains. [Stand-up display card. Illustration of diesel locomotive and map of Florida route].
approximately 1939
646607_77
Florida East Coast Railway Company. Photograph from air of two streamlined trains on parallel tracks at a road crossing, with
small bi-wing airplane overhead and automobiles waiting at crossing.] Richard T. Dooner, photographer.
Approximately 1939
646607_78
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company. We don't care ... as long as you catch either of our two daily trains to Detroit … Grand
What's-its-name Railway / Grand Trunk Western [Illustration of fronts of two Grand Trunk diesel locomotives]
646607_79
Illinois Central Railroad Company. [Illustration of the Panama Limited diesel streamliner].
Approximately 1940
646607_80
Illinois Central Railroad Company. [Illustration of City of Miami diesel streamliner].
Approximately 1940
646607_81
Illinois Central Railroad Company. [Illustration of City of Miami diesel streamliner].
Approximately 1940
646607_82
Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Southern Belle / 'Sweetheart of American Trains' [Illustration of diesel locomotive
with 'KCS and L&A Lines' logo on front.].
Approximately 1940
646607_83
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. General Motors Locomotives / 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive / Designed and Built By Electro-Motive
Division / General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of four-unit diesel-electric locomotive
no. 500].
1946
646607_84
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Photograph of the "Missouri River Eagle" with locomotive no. 7001.
646607_85
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. [Illustration showing "Colorado Eagle" train and locomotive no. 7003, with passengers nearby].
1940s
646607_86
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Division / General
Motors Corporation / For Missouri Pacific Lines [Illustration of four-unit locomotive no. 503]
646607_87 - 646607_95
New York Central Railroad Company. Set of nine promotional photographs of New York Central's new streamliner "The Mercury."
(eight interiors and one exterior).
Approximately 1939
646607_96
New York Central Railroad Company. Photograph of "Empire State Express" streamliner locomotive and passenger train in transit.
646607_96.1
New York Central Railroad Company. The "New England States" in the Berkshires [Illustration of stainless-steel train with
Pullman passenger cars].
Approximately 1949
646607_97
New York Central Railroad Company. The New Empire State Express Passing West Point in the Highlands of the Hudson …
646607_98
New York Central Railroad Company. For the Public Service … [Illustration of four locomotives]
646607_99
New York Central Railroad Company. The 20th Century Limited on the Historic Water Level Route [Illustration]
646607_100
New York Central Railroad Company. Trains that Pass in the Night … [Illustration of streamliner and the 20th Century Limited]
646607_101
New York Central Railroad Company. The Mohawk Valley - Where the Mountains Part to Let America Pass [Illustration of streamliner]
646607_102
New York Central Railroad Company. 4000 H.P. Diesel Passenger Locomotive / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Division /
General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration]
646607_103
New York Central Railroad Company. 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Division / General
Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration]
646607_104
New York Central Railroad Company. Freight, too, gets a smooth ride on New York Central's Water Level Route! [Illustration
of streamliner locomotive no. 1001 pulling freight]
646607_105
New York, Ontario and Western Railway. [Reproduction of cover of "Oilways" magazine, showing 4-unit diesel-electric freight
diesel locomotive hauling train of boxcars across a bridge.].
August 1946
646607_105.1
New York, Ontario and Western Railway. General Motors Locomotives / 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive / Designed and Built
by Electro-Motive Division / General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of four-unit EMD diesel
no. 801].
Approximately 1947
646607_106
Norfolk and Western Railway Company. One of the Norfolk and Western Railway's New Streamlined Passenger Locomotives / Designed
and Built by the Railway's Roanoke, Virginia, Shop Employees. [Photographic image of famous Class J, Tuscan red and black
4-8-4 streamlined steam locomotive; engine no. 600].
Approximately 1946
646607_106a
Norfolk and Western Railway Company. (same image as 646607_106, with slightly different text).
Approximately 1946
646607_107
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The Vista-Dome North Coast Limited opens a new panorama of scenic beauty to travelers in
the Northern Pacific West [Illustration].
Approximately 1955
646607_108
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 4500 H.P. Diesel Passenger Locomotive / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Division /
General Motors, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of black and dark green, three-unit locomotive no. 6500 pulling
passenger train].
Approximately 1950
646607_109
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. One of a Fleet of 5400 H.P Diesel Locomotives Built for Northern Pacific -- "Main Street
of the Northwest" By Electro-Motive Division / General Motors Corporation [Illustration of four-unit locomotive in black and
gold colors with red striping pulling freight boxcars.].
1944
646607_110
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company. See the Redwoods By Train / Ride the "Redwood" … San Rafael - Eureka... [Photographic
image of woods and part of train].
Approximately 1957
646607_111 - 646607_115
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Set of five posters with illustrations of passengers enjoying spacious and decorated interiors
of "The New Sunset Limited" - Pride of Texas Coffee Shop / Bedrooms / Audubon Dining Room / Chair Car.
1950
646607_116
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The New Sunset Limited / Los Angeles - New Orleans 42 Hours / [Illustration of passengers
in the French Quarter Lounge].
Approximately 1950
646607_117
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The Streamlined Train With The Southern Accent / Sunset Limited / New Orleans - Los Angeles
[Illustration of red and orange ALCO locomotive on a bridge].
Approximately 1950
646607_118
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The New Streamliner "City Of San Francisco"/ San Francisco - Chicago 39 3/4 Hours! ...
[Illustration of locomotive SF-1 in yellow and brown colors, round portholes on locomotive units].
Approximately 1938
646607_119
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. City of San Francisco / Fastest Thing On Wheels Between Chicago and San Francisco ... [Illustration
of red and orange ALCO engine no. 6015 pulling train with San Francisco in background].
Approximately 1950
646607_119a
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. (duplicate of 646607_119).
Approximately 1950
646607_120
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Southern Pacific's Streamlined "Shasta Daylight" / San Francisco - Portland Poster [Illustration
of two-unit red and orange Alco PA locomotive no. 6005 pulling train].
Approximately 1950
646607_121
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. One of the world's most handsome steam locomotives, the GS-4- popularly called the "Daylight"
… [Illustration of locomotive no. 4449 passing signal near Pacific Ocean]
646607_122
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Southern Pacific's new Daylight / Los Angeles - San Francisco [Illustration]
646607_123
Southern Railway (U.S.). Ride the New Modern Diesel Powered Train / Completely Air-Conditioned ... [Photographic image of
diesel engine pulling passenger car, with engineer in window].
Approximately 1930s
646607_124
Southern Railway (U.S.). The Southerner ... [Photographic image of green and white diesel engine no. 2801 pulling stainless-steel
passenger cars].
1941
646607_125
Southern Railway (U.S.). The Southerner / New Orleans - New York reserved-seat coach streamliner … [Illustration of Jefferson
Memorial and Washington Monument with stainless steel passenger train in foreground].
1941
646607_126
Southern Railway (U.S.). The world's first diesel freight locomotive, Southern Railway System's no. 6100, crossing Cumberland
River Bridge near Burnside, Kentucky [Photographic image of train and scenery]
646607_127
Southern Railway (U.S.). General Motors Locomotives / 4000 H.P. Diesel Passenger Locomotive / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive
Division / General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration]
646607_128
Southern Railway (U.S.). General Motors Locomotives / 5400 H.P. Diesel Freight Locomotive / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive
Division / General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of four-unit EMD diesel no. 6100]
646607_129
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. Columbia River, Avery, Washington [Illustration of two-unit EMD locomotive no. 750
hauling freight train; caboose of passing train on nearer of two tracks.].
Approximately 1950
646607_130
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. Columbia River Scenic Route [Illustration of green and yellow 4-unit ALCO PA locomotive
no. 858 hauling freight.].
Approximately 1950
646607_131
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. Label on back of print reads "S.P. & S. Ry. freight train along the Columbia River,
between Bingen-White Salmon and Lyle, Wash." [Illustration of green and yellow 4-unit ALCO PA locomotive no. 858].
Approximately 1950
646607_132
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines). General Motors Locomotives / 6000 H.P. Diesel Locomotive
/ Designed and Built by Electro-motive Division / General Motors, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A. [Illustration of four-unit EMD
engine no. 5000 in black and deep yellow colors pulling train of boxcars].
Approximately 1950
646607_133
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines). The Firefly / Kansas City - Tulsa - Oklahoma City / Frisco
Lines ... [Illustration of bullet-nosed semi-streamlined steam locomotive no. 1026 (4-6-2)].
Approximately 1940
646607_134
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines). The Texas Flash / Kansas City, Tulsa, Dallas [Illustration.
Frisco Lines logo across front of semi-streamlined steam locomotive no. 1031].
Approximately 1940
646607_135
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines). [Illustration of night scene of Frisco freight train at
Nichols crossing with switchman and headlamp on 3-unit Alco PA locomotive no. 5217]
646607_136
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines). [Illustration of "The Texas Special" train with 2-unit
diesel locomotive no. 101-A pulling passenger cars.].
Approximately 1946
646607_137
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (also called Frisco Lines). General Motors Locomotives / One of the 5400 H.P. Diesel
Freight Locomotives In Service on St. Louis Southwestern Railway Lines [Illustration of four-unit EMD diesel locomotive no.
900 with "Cotton Belt Route" logo on front.].
Approximately 1944
646607_138
Texas and Pacific Railway. Texas and Pacific / Passenger / Freight / 1951 [Illustration of two diesel engines, no. 2000 and
no. 1500. Metal strip across top suggests it was calendar art.].
1951
646607_139
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Copy of blueprint for "Eight wheel Gasoline Motor Car No's. 2 -5 -6 -9" ("McKeen motor car"
designed by Union Pacific's Superintendent of Motive Power, William Riley McKeen Jr.).
March 3, 1906
646607_140
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Copy of blueprint for "Four wheel Gasoline Motor Car No. 1" ("McKeen motor car" designed by
Union Pacific's Superintendent of Motive Power, William Riley McKeen Jr.).
March 3, 1906
646607_141
Union Pacific Railroad Company. The Progressive Union Pacific / Road of the Streamliners and the Challengers / Serves all
the West [Illustration of Union Pacific name and logo with streamliners City of Los Angeles and City of San Francisco pictured
alongside an older steam locomotive.].
Approximately 1938
646607_142
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Union Pacific Streamliner "City of Los Angeles" [Illustration of yellow locomotive no. LA-1
and train rounding curve between orange groves].
Approximately 1937
646607_143
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Union Pacific Streamliner / "City of Denver" [Illustration of yellow locomotive no. M-10006
and train].
Approximately 1936
646607_144
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Union Pacific Streamline Train [Photographic image of locomotive no. M-10001 pulling articulated
train of five semi-tubular passenger cars.].
Approximately 1934
646607_145
Germany: Deutsche Bahn. Ferrovie Federali Germaniche (text in Italian language). [Photographic image of German self-propelled
passenger train in countryside]
646607_145.1
Germany: Deutsche Reichsbahn. Immer Schneller, Deutsche Reichsbahn ["Always Faster. German State Railroad."] with graphic
illustration of train. Artist H. J. Barschel.
Approximately 1935
646607_146
Great Britain: London and North Eastern Railway. Photograph of L.N.E.R Streamline Train "The Coronation" / London (King's
Cross) - Edinburgh / 392 miles in 6 hours [Streamlined steam locomotive no. 4491 (4-6-2); sometimes advertised as Britain's
first streamline train].
1937
646607_147
Great Britain: London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. Photograph of "Coronation Scot" semi-streamlined steam locomotive
(4-6-2) pulling several coaches through countryside.
Approximately 1938
646607_148
Great Britain: British Rail. Advanced Passenger Train no. 370 004 - the Rainhill Trials procession, Rainhill 1980. [Photographic
image of high-speed train].
1980
646607_149
General Motors Corporation. The Aerotrain / Designed and Built by Electro-Motive Division of General Motors [Illustration
of locomotive no. GM-T1].
Approximately 1955
646607_150
General Motors Corporation. General Motors Locomotives ... Color reproduction of actual photograph taken June, 1941, at passenger
terminal, Washington D.C. [Illustration of five streamliner locomotives lined up together].
1941
646607_151
General Motors Corporation. General Motors / Train of Tomorrow Coming / On Exhibition / Exposition Boulevard at Hoover, Los
Angeles… [Illustration of train with Vista-Dome passenger coaches].
1947
646607_152
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company. Here's one of Rock Island's New Streamliners, Choctaw Rocket, built by Pullman-Standard…
[Color advertisement proof for "Collier's" magazine; text and illustrations of train exterior and interior with passengers].
1941
Early "streamline" inventions
646607_153 - 646607_154
Sir Henry Bessemer. [Reproductions of two sheets of drawings: Bessemer's Specification No. 11,352, Sheet A and Sheet B. Elevation
drawings of carriage car with aerodynamic front end; engine, gears and mechanics.].
August 26, 1846
646607_155
Joe V. Meigs. An Elevation of Train on Curve, 50 ft. Radius Wooden Way. Meigs Elevated Railway Construction Company, 225 Bridge
St. East Cambridge, Mass. [Reproduction of technical drawings of cars from various angles. Names of company managers and employees
listed at top of sheet.].
February 1886
646607_156
Joe V. Meigs. Reception to the Philadelphia City Council by the Meigs Elevated Railroad Construction Co., East Cambridge,
Mass. May 27, 1887. [Copy of a photograph showing Meigs' locomotive, tender and passenger car, all barrel-shaped, on monorail
track system supported by single posts. Below are approximately 80 men in a group portrait.].
May 27, 1887
