Inventory of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Collection, 1873-1950
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Inventory of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Collection, 1873-1950
Collection number: MS 77
California State Railroad Museum Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- California State Railroad Museum Library
- 111 "I" Street
- Sacramento, California 95814
- Phone: (916) 323-8073
- Fax: (916) 327-5655
- Email: csrmlibrary@csrmf.org
- URL: http://www.csrmf.org/library.html
- Processed by:
- The California State Railroad Museum Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 2000 California State Railroad Museum. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1873-1950
Collection number: MS 77
Creator:
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Extent: 53 boxes + 3 flat boxes + 1 volume
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library
Sacramento, California 95814
Shelf location: Big Four Building or off-site storage. Please contact
the Library in advance of your visit.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 1989, Mildred Eshnaur, 1993, and Redfield Finlay, Jr., 1995.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Senior
Curator. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Collection, MS 77, California State Railroad Museum Library,
Sacramento, California.
Collection Description
In addition to manuscript material, the CSRM Library also has photograph, drawing, map, and ephemera collections related to
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Please consult the Library for details.
SERIES ONE: ENGINEERING RECORDS,
1873-
Physical Description:
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
The engineering records consist of correspondence and reports of engineers and surveyors mostly concerning possible routes
over the Tehachapi Mountains. Included are documents relating to the "California Main Line Railroad," a proposed trans-Tehachapi
scheme of the 1920s, the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway, and other portions of the Santa Fe System. Records are
hand and type-written, carbon copies and photocopies. This series is not yet fully processed.
SERIES TWO: STATION AGENT'S MONTHLY REPORTS,
1931-1955
Physical Description:
1 volume
Scope and Content Note
This copybook contains numerous carbon tissues of various Santa Fe forms completed by the Capron, Oklahoma, station agent
between 1931 and 1935. Forms include:
- Monthly balance sheet passenger account
- Monthly report of grain doors
- Statement of uncollected freight bills
- Report of freight bills made ...
- Report of milk and cream waybills issued
- Monthly freight report
- Monthly report of interline ticket sales
- Monthly report of demurrage assessed
- Western Union Telegraph monthly report.
SERIES THREE: PERSONNEL RECORDS,
1890-1950
Physical Description:
46 document boxes + 2 flat boxes
Scope and Content Note
Personnel records, Coast Lines in Arizona and California, circa 1900-1950
Loose-leaf personnel records arranged in alphabetical order by surname received in 166 three- ring binders were transferred
to file folders. Following is a list of binders
NOT RECEIVED and an
approximateindication of missing names.
- No. 3
- Am
- No. 13
- Bc
- No. 14
- Bd
- No. 15
- Be
- No. 16
- Bf - Bg
- No. 17
- Bh - Bk
- No. 20
- Bol - Boq
- No. 24
- Brew
- No. 25
- Brf - Bri
- No. 26
- Brj - Brm
- No. 27
- Brn
- No. 37
- Chaps - Ci
- No. 38
- Ci - Clao
- No. 41
- Coli - Com
- No. 98 - 100
- I - Jem
- No. 104
- - 108A Kes - Lam
- No. 116
- Marshall - Q. Martin
- No. 119 - 121
- Maz - McD
- No. 123
- McFa - McKa
- No. 125 - 126
- McLz - Meacham
- No. 157 - 158
- Rhy - Rob
- No. 160 - 166
- Robinson - Scr
- No. 174 - 177
- H. Smith - Stanberry
- No. 197
- Weaverling - Welsh
- No. 201
- Wils - J. Williams
- No. 205 - 207
- Wolv - D. Young
Also includes two bound volumes: Form 1621, Trainmen and yardmen, Southern California area, circa 1890s to 1910s (some annotations
into the 1940s). Not in alphabetical order. Form 1621-A, Yardmen and office workers, Los Angeles Division, 1910s to 1920s.
Letters Tak - Zim only. (Microfilmed) Includes a folder with paycheck information.
SERIES FOUR: MENUS,
1918-1920
Physical Description:
1 box
Scope and Content Note
This scrapbook appears to be a proof book of Santa Fe Dining Car Service, Fred Harvey menus issued between November 21, 1918
and August 1, 1920. Includes menus for unidentified trains (62), The California Limited (172) and a Texaco Company Special
Train, Chicago to Texas oil fields, November 1919 (3). The menus are glued onto the pages of the scrapbook.
SERIES FIVE: EQUIPMENT SURVEYS,
1939-1953
Physical Description:
1 box
Scope and Content Note
Reviews equipment (locomotives and rolling stock) holdings: quantity, description, costs, performance, etc. Mimeographs.
SERIES SIX: PASSENGER EQUIPMENT, [1919], 1931,
1943
Physical Description:
1 box
Passenger equipment record.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by car type. May include information about: number (old and new), builder, year built, length, trucks, size journal,
heating, lighting, trap door, sash balance, seating capacity, type axle light, kind of triple, size of cylinder, draft gear,
type buffer, lightweight, loaded weight, lot number, specification number, plan number, remarks, etc.
Heavy weight passenger car classification system.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by car type. May include information about: car number, year built, lightweight, length over end sills, baggage room
(length and capacity), passenger compartments (number, seating capacity, seat upholstery), platform (passenger end, baggage
end), under frame, superstructure, draft gear, coupler, buffer, heating system (type and control), lighting system, generator,
water system, roof, brake, size cylinder, bearings, wheels, size journal, exterior color, lot number, specification number,
floor plan, builder.
Box 1, Folder 1
Report of J. Blickensderfer, Jr., Chief Engineer, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, 1873
Folder 2
Correspondence regarding proposed Los Angeles-San Francisco line via Ventura County, 1873-1923
Folder 3
Letters of Lewis M. Clement, Chief Engineer, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad regarding extension to San Francisco, 1882
Folder 4-5
Survey by Henry Minot of the California Extension, across the Tehachapi Mountains, 1890
Folder 6
Letters of Samuel Rockwell regarding surveys between Rogers and Bakersfield, California, 1890
Folder 7
Memorandum on tunnels and bridges, 1890
Folder 8
Tehachapi Mountains routes surveys, 1892
Folder 9
Re-examination by G. W. Vaughn of Wilbur and Minot surveys, 1892
Folder 10
Letters and reports of G. W. Vaughn regarding the survey of a route from Deming, New Mexico to Victor, California, 1896
Folder 11
Correspondence and reports regarding surveys in the Tehachapi Mountains, 1897-1898
Folder 12
List of maps and profiles of the Tehachapi Mountains surveys, 1898
Folder 13
Reports on construction of the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway, 1898
Folder 14
Reports on construction of the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway, 1899-1900
Box 2, Folder 1
Lease by the Santa Fe of the Southern Pacific's Mojave-Bakersfield line, 1899-1900, 1922
Folder 2
Surveys, Utah-California, 1899
Folder 3
Surveys of Tejon Pass and agreement with the Southern Pacific, 1904-1911
Folder 4
Surveys of Tejon Pass, 1910-1923
Folder 5
Summary of files relating to Los Angeles-Bakersfield surveys, 1918-1946
Folder 6-8
Correspondence and reports regarding surveys of the Los Angeles- Bakersfield route of the proposed California Main Line Railroad,
1921-1923
Folder 9
Map of the California Main Line Railroad, 1922
Folder 10-11
Correspondence and reports regarding surveys of Los Angeles-Bakersfield routes, 1923
Folder 12
Reports of surveys between Burbank and Los Angeles, 1923
Folder 13
Maps of the Burbank-Los Angeles surveys, 1923
Folder 14
Clippings regarding Los Angeles-Bakersfield surveys
Folder 15
Correspondence and summary reports on proposed Tejon Pass line
TWO: STATION AGENT'S MONTHLY REPORTS, 1931-1955
Volume Vol. 1
Station agent's monthly reports copy book, 1931-1935
THREE: PERSONNEL RECORDS, 1890-1950
Box 3, Folder 1
Paychecks from United States Railroad Administration, 25 cents, July 1, 1919 to Leo McCarty
Box 52-53
One bound volume: Form 1621, Trainmen and yardmen, Southern California area, circa 1890s to 1910s (some annotations into the 1940s). Not in alphabetical order.
Box 54
Menus, 1918-1920 Scrapbook
FIVE: EQUIPMENT SURVEYS, 1939-1953
Box 55
Equipment survey as of May 1, 1939 and 10 years 1939 to 1948. Mimeograph.
Equipment survey as of May 1, 1939 and 10 years 1939 to 1948; revised as of July 1, 1944 and 10 years 1944 to 1953. Mimeograph.
SIX: PASSENGER EQUIPMENT, [1919], 1931, 1943
Passenger equipment record.
Box 56, Folder 1
1931. 80 pages. White line on blue paper.
Heavy weight passenger car classification system.
Box 56, Folder 2
Issued July 24, 1919; revised September 1, 1943; Office of Engineer of Car Construction, Topeka. 72 pages. White line on blue paper.