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Best, Gerald M. Papers, 1932-1981.

Title: Papers, 1932-1981.

Personal and business correspondence, research notes, mss. of publications, rosters, and ephemera, largely relating to railroads. Topics include Best's association with the Golden Spike Centennial Celebration in 1969, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, formation of California State Railroad Museum, and Best's publications. Correspondents include Lucius Beebe and C.W. Witbeck.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30401506 View

Fisher, Charles E. (Charles Eben), b. 1889. Letter, Feb. 20, 1939.

Title: Letter, Feb. 20, 1939.

Typescript letter, unsigned, to the members of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society regarding a controversy that arose in the New York Chapter resulting in suspension of the Chapter.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776733707 View

McFarland, Robert H., d. 1954. Robert H. McFarland correspondence and railroad ephemera, 1930-1950.

Title: Robert H. McFarland correspondence and railroad ephemera, 1930-1950.

Contains mostly correspondence, some on letterhead stationery, between McFarland, other railroad enthusiasts and organizations, and railroad companies. Most of the letters concern the buying and selling of railroad photographs. Also includes some railroad ephemera, a brochure for The Western Pacific Railroad Company "Feather River Route" and a typescript copy of a Southern Pacific Company "resume of instructions" for railway workers (with index) containing details of their standard operating procedures.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/753082002 View

Hoagland, G. Stewart (George Stewart), 1922- . G.Stewart Hoagland collection of railroadiana, 1887-1939 (bulk, 1936-1939).

Title: G.Stewart Hoagland collection of railroadiana, 1887-1939 (bulk, 1936-1939).

This assortment of railroadiana was collected by Hoagland as a teenager in the late 1930s, most of it through railroad fan trips being sponsored by the railroad companies, railroad clubs, and Railroad Magazine. All of the excursions operated out of New York City. The material connected with these trips include notices, schedules, itinerary booklets, posters, ticket stubs, and other souvenirs. Hoagland also used the trips to obtain timetables and samples of form 19 and 31 train orders from railroad employees.

ArchivalResource: 87 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123466329 View

Jacobs, Warren. Scrapbook, 1933-1934.

Title: Scrapbook, 1933-1934.

Photocopy of a scrapbook (with some loose original documents) containing notes, itineraries, clippings, and replies to Jacobs's letters requesting information on Abraham Lincoln's visits to New England by rail in 1848 and 1860. Also included is Jacobs's typewritten paper, the results of his research on Lincoln's visits via what are now the New Haven and the Boston and Albany Railroads. Jacobs was the Secretary of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22250533 View