BOX 1: Blomquist Collection of Locomotive Fuel Consumption Studies 1924-1970.
1.1 MISC. ARTICLES #1
Jose Martin. "In the Early Days of Oil Burning on Locomotives" [6 pp. ; two copies]
Anon. "Oil-Burning Locomotive Development of Southern Pacific" [5 pp.]
Untitled on Electric locomotives [3 pp.; 2 copies]
Heath, Erle, "Seventy-Five Years of Progress--Historical Sketches of the Southern Pacific" [1 pg.]
Corbett, J.W. "Four Years of Diesel Fuel Research on the Southern Pacific" [13 pp.]
Memorandum: "Handling of Petroleum Products on Southern Pacific' [3 pp.]
Russell, F.E. "Railroad Notive Power Maintenance Facilities as Influenced by Change from Steam to Diesel" [13 pp.]
1.2 MISC. ARTICLES #2
Martin, Jesse C. "Test of Engine 10--Southern California Railway Co." [8 pp.]
"Proceedings, the Journal of the Pacific Railway CLub, May, 1935" [24 pp.]
Bayha, L.P. "Yesterday and Today" [6 pp.]
Anon. "Fuel Oil in Locomotive Service (Pacific Lines)" [10 pp.]
Anon. "Oil Electric Locomotives, Manufactured by General Electric Company, American Locomotive Company, Ingersoll--Rand Company" [13 pp.]
General Electric Company "60 Ton Oil Electric Locomotive" [5 pp.]
Martin, Jesse C. "Petroleum Versus Coal in Locomotive Furnaces" [2 pp.]
"Railroads to Try Diesel Locomotive," NY Times (2-18-1925)
Southern Pacific News Releases (3) [16 pp.]
1.3 MISC. ARTICLES #3
Anon. "Motive Power of Western Development" [11 pp.]
Murdock, Richard M. "SP Built 248 Engines for Itself" [7 pp.]
Southern Pacific Bulletin (February 1925) [40 pp.]
Miscellaneous Notes [5 pp.]
1.4 MISC. ARTICLES #4
Mercier, A.T. "How Do Diesels Affect Jobs?" [4 pp.]
Anon. "Southern Pacific Type 3-Cylinder Locomotive" [11 pp.]
Anon. "Fuel, It Is Lifeblood of the Railroad" [4 pp.]
Kurttschnitt, J. "Fuel--A Reducible 13 Per Cent of Expense" [10 pp.]
Kenendorf, N.C. "Diesel Engines or Gas Turbines for Locomotive" [36 pp.]
1.5 MISC. ARTICLES #5
Pacific Railway Club: "Proceedings" (October, 1955) [32 pp.]
Houston, S.M., "Radioactive Tracer Research" [8 pp.]
Richards, W.L., "Fundamentals of Fuel Economy" [32 pp.]
"The Language of Block Signals" [8 pp.]
Miscellaneous notes [3 pp.]