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Gray, Carl R., 1889-1955. Papers, 1848-1955.

Title: Papers, 1848-1955.

Papers, 1848-1955, of General Carl R. Gray, railroad executive with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad, brigadier general and director of military railroads for the European Theater of Operations during World War II, and head of the Veterans Administration from 1948 to 1953. The papers primarily document his lifelong work and interest in railroads; his professional career; the history of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, the Chicago & North Western, and other railroad companies; and the history of U.S. Army military railroad operations in Europe and North Africa, 1942-1945.

ArchivalResource: 47.7 c.f.,1485 photographs, and162 pieces of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700010 View

National Railroad Museum (Green Bay, Wis.). Records, 1956-1959.

Title: Records, 1956-1959.

Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, and clippings from Museum Information Executive Harold T. I. Shannon's office dealing with administrative plans, publicity, fundraising, and attempts to get Congressional recognition as a national museum. The museum was the idea of railroad historian Carl R. Gray, Jr., and was to be operated by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, but was opened as an independent museum in 1961.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145782855 View

Patterson, William J. (William James), 1880-1955. Papers, 1894-1954.

Title: Papers, 1894-1954.

Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, and speeches of William J. Patterson, a railroad man who served in the Interstate Commerce Commission's United States Bureau of Safety and as commissioner of the ICC, 1939-1953. Personal correspondence includes discussions of railroading with others interested in transportation problems. Professional correspondence deals largely with the ICC and includes letters from General Carl R. Gray, director of the Military Railway Service in Europe, 1944-1945. In the collection are also some papers from the files of W. P. Borland, who preceded Patterson at the ICC, including some correspondence, 1903-1912, and speeches, memoranda, and opinions on the Safety Appliance Act, 1903. There is also a folder of copies of testimony on the rights of railway examiners, and opinions concerning federal regulations and accident prevention from 1894-ca. 1935.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 c.f. (6 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145785748 View

National Railroad Museum (Green Bay, Wis.). Records, 1956-1959.

Title: Records, 1956-1959.

Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, and clippings from Museum Information Executive Harold T. I. Shannon's office dealing with administrative plans, publicity, fundraising, and attempts to get Congressional recognition as a national museum. The museum was the idea of railroad historian Carl R. Gray, Jr. and was to be operated by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40281302 View