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American Car and Foundry Company. Jackson & Sharp Plant. Job files, 1898-1905.

Title: Job files, 1898-1905.

Accession 1130 contains a total of 75 envelopes of customer order files from the period 1898-1905. Each file contains a specification sheet and notes relating to the order. Some also contain copies of the builder's photograph and blueprint floor plans.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 linear ft.

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Ann Arbor Railroad Company. Trade catalogs of travel, [1853?]-1951.

Title: Trade catalogs of travel, [1853?]-1951.

Brochures and time-tables relating to cruises by steamship and ferry lines, and tours by railroad and bus in the United States and Canada.

ArchivalResource: 198 items (1 box) : ill.

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Pennsylvania Railroad. Pennsylvania Railroad branch lines and subsidiaries annual reports and minute books, 1853-1965.

Title: Pennsylvania Railroad branch lines and subsidiaries annual reports and minute books, 1853-1965.

Dating from 1853 to 1965, the PRR annual reports and minute books comprise two key record series contained within the Pennsylvania Railroad-Central Region Collection. The PRR annual reports are almost exclusively printed, while the minute books are largely handwritten with some typescript and printed articles of incorporation, merger agreements, and notices of stockholders' meetings. These volumes document the executive administration of various PRR subsidiaries and branch lines, especially financial operations and investment practices, and relations between the railroad's operational managers and PRR shareholders. Several key PRR subsidiaries are covered by the annual reports and minute books: the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company; the Buffalo, New York, & Philadelphia Railway Company; the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Rail Road Company; and the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation. Written or typed minutes of subsidiaries' board meetings are available for most of the PRR, New York Central, and Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation subsidiaries. A single volume of minutes often contains the records of two or more subsidiary short lines cheaply laid in the 1860s and 1870s that found that they couldn't support themselves as the 1880s and 1890s began. Printed annual reports to the stockholders often contain several years bound in one volume and are available for all of the companies and a great many subsidiaries.

ArchivalResource: 221 v.

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H.H. Copeland and Son. [Copeland railroad survey collection].

Title: [Copeland railroad survey collection]. [1918-1958]

ArchivalResource: ca. 504 pieces (maps with accompanying text) : printed items ; in 2 boxes 27 x 13 x 40 cm.

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Helen Clay Frick Foundation. Helen Clay Frick Foundation archives, 1862-1987.

Title: Helen Clay Frick Foundation archives, 1862-1987.

The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Archives contains material reflecting the business and financial activities of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) with particular relevance to Pittsburgh and the western Pennsylvania region. These materials highlight Frick's ascent into prominence during a period of American industrial growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The resources range from Frick's first businesses, including his first coal firm, H.C. Frick & Company, to correspondence between Frick and Andrew Carnegie, which also includes Frick's negotiations that facilitated the mega merger that formed United States Steel Corporation in 1899. The material also addresses aspects of business specific to the late ninetieth century coke industry, including bituminous coal mining, beehive ovens, and railroad transportation. The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Archives contains 28 series that date from 1881 to 1987; the majority of the materials date from 1881 to 1914, when Frick was most active in the coal and steel industry in Pittsburgh. The majority of the material is categorized into four types of records: administrative material, financial records, legal material, and ephemeral items. The administrative material are generally made up of correspondence, letterpress copybooks, memoranda, invoices, company charters, meeting minutes, by-laws, deeds, contracts, certificates, pamphlets, proposals, specifications, labor costs, property assessments, building construction records, architectural drawings, blue prints, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, atlases, and plat maps. The financial records consist of receipts, reports, statements, stock accounts, taxes, bills, lease matters, rent and building costs, cashbooks, sales journals, accounts payable receipts, mortgages, estate/property values, as well as profit and loss statements. There is a small amount of legal material which has records of court cases, case notes, court rulings, and attorney services. The ephemera items include keys, stone samples, printing plates, and post cards. Further description is available at the series and subseries level.

ArchivalResource: 250.0 linear ft.

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Francis, Harry Franklin. Francis family collection, ca. 1016-ca. 1960.

Title: Francis family collection, ca. 1016-ca. 1960.

Chiefly photographs (many unidentified), certificates, birth announcement booklets, clippings, and other materials, of/or relating to Harry Franklin Francis, his wife, Blanche Mary Alburg Francis, her son by a previous marriage, Elmer Earnest Almburg, and their son, Harry Franklin Francis, residents of Struthers and Youngstown, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

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Doble, William J., 1904-1972. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, General Committee of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West), chairman's files, 1909-1962, bulk 1931-1962.

Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, General Committee of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West), chairman's files, 1909-1962, bulk 1931-1962.

The significant correspondence in this accession was generated by Doble, and by C.K. Fields (vice-president, legislative representative), J.M. Pattee (general chairman); W.E. Aurand (general secretary-treasurer), A.E. Lyon (grand president), D.W. Helt (grand president) Jesse Clark (president) and local officers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. Other correspondents include officers and employees of the Association of General Chairmen, New York Central; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes; the Michigan Central Railroad; the New York Central Railroad; the Peoria and Eastern Railroad; and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. Files of the chairman of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West) of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America, including information regarding labor relations on the Michigan Central, Peoria and Eastern, and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroads. Materials on work jurisdiction (1931-1957) include correspondence (1933-1957) regarding workers other than signalmen performing signal work (i.e., electricians of the equipment department, section men, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, maintenance of way shop employees, bridge and building department forces, Western Union Telegraph Company, communications department); seniority rights in both the transportation and signal department; and letters regarding carrier violations in the observance of craft lines as defined in the scope rules of the signalmen's agreement, and the contracting out of signal work. Materials on the Legal Aid Department (1932) established for the purpose of advising injured members and dependents of those who died as the result of injuries regarding their legal rights and remedies under the Federal Employers' Liability Act; also include rules and regulations of the legal aid service of the Brotherhood. Materials on color perception (1935-1945) include letters regarding an employee being disqualified for being unable to meet visual acuity standards, an employee removed from his position because of defective color perception, and demotion because of alleged color blindness. Materials on political legislation (1946-1949) include a copy of HR.3020 to amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide additional facilities for the mediation of labor disputes affecting commerce, and to equalize legal responsibilities of labor organizations and employers; copy of HR.2536 to amend the Interstate Commerce Act (1946); endorsements by Railway Labor's Political League for the general election (1948); Congressional voting records (1946-1949); and Senate speeches on labor by Hubert H. Humphrey (1949). Materials on the National Railroad Adjustment Board (1937-1950) include letters regarding international highway forwarders (1941) (trucks to be used in international service with all the bonding privileges accorded railroads); letters in opposition to a bill to construct and operate a belt conveyer between various points in Ohio; and letters regarding S.150/HR.628 reducing total freight revenues for railroads in the transport of coal and iron; minutes of a meeting called to organize a joint committee of railroad management and employees in Michigan for legislative purposes (1939) and minutes of the joint council of the Michigan railroad industry (1939); also a resolution outlining basic requirements of public policy bearing upon the relationship between competing forms of transportation. Materials on the St. Lawrence Seaway Project (1941-1952) include press releases; letters regarding opposition of railroad labor to the St. Lawrence Seaway Project (1952); circulars from Tom J. McGrath (executive director, National St. Lawrence Project Conference, a nationwide organization in opposition to the St. Lawrence Seaway Project); and papers and publications on the proposed project and its effects. Miscellaneous materials on railing protection, on signals, on strikes, and on reinstatements (1940-1958) include letters on signalmen positions abolished due to conditions arising from the locomotive firemen's strike, with a protest to the Railroad Retirement Board regarding the method of filing applications and allowing unemployment compensation during the strike; memorandum of understanding (1950) between the Brotherhood and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and the Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad in connection with restoration of small forces with revised operating rules upon the termination of the strike of conductors and trainmen on these properties; minutes (with by-laws) of the meeting of the Association of General Chairmen, Standard Labor Organizations on the New York Central System (1957); a paper supporting enactment of state legislation providing for the protection of employees adversely affected by the abandonment of railroad facilities; and letters regarding questions concerning work stoppages called by another craft or crafts. Also included are transcripts of investigations to determine cause and responsibility for accidental damage to motor cars (1951); report of the proceedings of the General System Committee meetings of the New York Central lines; by-laws of the General Committee of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West) of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) (1931); amalgamation of various lines of the New York Central system (1931); proposed by-laws and general rules of the General Grievance Committee of New York Central lines, BRS; minutes of meetings of New York Central lines (1927); reports of the secretary-treasurer, New York Central (Lines West) (1929-1960); financial statements of the General System Committee (1933-1952); minutes of meetings of the general chairman and BRS officers (1944-1960); conference (with by-laws) for the formation of a co-operative association of general chairmen representing the standard railroad labor organizations on the New York Central system lines (1932); circular letters (1952-1956) from the office of General Chairman Doble regarding protection of men working on highway crossings (1953); union shop operations (1956); recall of men laid off during the steel strike; leaves of absence (1955-1956); and reports of Doble (1934-1946). Other matters include the question of whether Canadian employees working for the Michigan Central Railroad in Canada are subject to the provisions of railroad unemployment insurance (1938); settlement of work claims (1954-1955); letters regarding BRS conducting an organizing campaign among signal department employees on the New York Central system and its request to represent signal foremen and inspectors; files on organizing by the American Railway Supervisors' Association; minutes of general chairmen and local chairmen of the New York Central System (1929); and decisions of the 40-Hour Week Committee on revision of make-up time rules, traveling time, starting time, Sunday and holiday pay, day's work and overtime, reduction in force rules, stand-by rules, bulletin rules, and shift rules. Materials on wages (1926-1956) include discussion of railroad organizations co-operating in opposing the national wage reduction movement inaugurated by the carriers. Materials on veterans (1944-1949) include agreements and letters covering employees entering and leaving military service. Materials on consolidation and absorptions (1932-1959) include a proposed rule governing adjustment of employee seniority affected by consolidation of seniority districts; letters regarding bidding rights, merger of and consolidation of seniority districts; a report, agreement, and letter regarding the protection of rights and interests of railway employees in any consolidation or unification of railroad facilities; seniority dispute between locals; seniority consolidation rule; displacement rights; and a membership drive by the American Railway Supervisors' Association of the New York Central system, conducted among signal inspectors and general foremen. Materials on vacation include (1931-1953) letters on vacation with pay, plan for vacation, vacation for non-operating employees, vacation allowance to estate of deceased employee, vacation for those entering military service, vacation schedule, vacation to employees on 3-trick assignments (1940-1951), and vacation agreements with drafts and revisions (1931-1953). Materials on overtime, Canadian District Public Relations, and consolidations (1930-1961) include letters regarding Canadian members coming into the United States and exercising seniority rights (1941); Council Order No. 8682 declaring six holidays per year for the duration of World War II (1942); Canadian selective service order regarding government employment of union members to further the war effort (1942); a strike of locomotive engineers, firemen and conductors on the New York Central system (Lines West), Michigan Central railroad, and the Big Four Railroads (1952); rights of promoted men when their positions are abolished (1952); and participation in the joint 1961 wage and rules movement for a general wage increase; numerous other routine matters regarding individual grievances, clauses in contracts and government regulations. Materials on work claims and disputes (1951-1963) include grievances (1957-1963) regarding wages, seniority, working conditions, safety matters, craft jurisdiction, fringe benefits, overtime, promotion, discipline, dismissal, overtime, meal expense, and theft (company and personal) (1957-1965); minutes of BRS state legislative representatives (1956-1961); report on activities of state legislative representatives of BRS (1953-1955); a petition to Congress urging the repeal of the portion of the Railway Labor Act which permits negotiation of union shop agreements; letters regarding veterans' reemployment rights (1953-1963); claims by the United Railroad Operating Crafts that it is a national organization and entitled to participate in selection and designation of National Railroad Adjustment Board (NRAB) labor members (1958); application of union shop agreement to veterans and those on leave of absence; validity of union shop amendment and union shop agreement; also circular letters from Jesse Clark regarding federal legislation affecting railroad employees (1958-1960); and the Railroad Yardmasters of America organizing campaign within the New York Central system. Materials on the union shop and the Travelers Insurance Company (1951-1963) include transcripts of hearings on union shop agreement violations (1952-1962), the health and welfare movement, and the wage movement of the Benefit Association of Railway Employees (1955), among related documents. Additional materials (1936-1958) include letters regarding work week, equal distribution of employment, an official strike ballot regarding wage requests of 1942; Railway Labor Executives' Association resolution, statements, and reports dealing with employment of war prisoners on the railroads (1942); correspondence regarding the Pennsylvania-New York Central Railroad merger (1962); record books of BRS expenses (1937-1952); a memorandum relating to "certain" Chinese railway engineers training for railroad service (1944); and New York Central lines regulations and requirements governing employee physical examinations and re-examinations upon promotion (1933-1948); apprenticeship training in the signal department (1947-1956); regulations governing the issuance of free or reduced rate transportation (1942); a record book (1936) of BRS Grand Lodge dues for various locals (1936); and minutes and proceedings of the 1958 BRS convention.

ArchivalResource: 31.5 linear ft.

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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company records 1916-1955 [manuscript]

Title: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company records 1916-1955 [manuscript]

The Pennsylvania and Lake Erie Railroad Company records include employment records of the railroad which were administered through the United States Railroad Administration between 1916 and 1955. The collection contains only records of surnames beginning with the letters A and B, as well as M through P. These consist of employment applications, transfer and termination documents, and physical examination forms. They contain standard personal information, change of job activities, reasons for termination, and physical condition results of employee vision, color sense, and hearing tests.

ArchivalResource: 0.50 linear ft.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, General Committee of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West), chairman's files, 1909-1962 [bulk 1931-1962].

Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, General Committee of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West), chairman's files, 1909-1962 [bulk 1931-1962].

Files of the chairman of the New York Central Railroad (Lines West) of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America, including information regarding labor relations on the Michigan Central, Peoria and Eastern, and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroads.

ArchivalResource:

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A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material, 1939-1985

Title: A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material 1939-1985

Employee timetables, track charts, and other material from railroads in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Items are dated between 1939 and 1985. All of the material, except the map of the Port of Charleston, comes from companies that eventually merged into CSX Corporation. A graduate of North Carolina State University, A. Crane Jones was senior vice president of CSX Corporation when he retired in 1989. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 by the merger of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. Each of these companies had been formed by earlier mergers involving the Seaboard System Railroad, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and other companies.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 Linear feet, 9 archival boxes

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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

Title: [Pamphlets. Financial history.].

ArchivalResource: v.

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Jones, A. Crane,. A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material, 1939-1985 [manuscript]

Title: A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material, 1939-1985 [manuscript]

Employee timetables, track charts, and other material from railroads in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Items are dated between 1939 and 1985. All of the material, except the map of the Port of Charleston, comes from companies that eventually merged into CSX Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear feet (9 archival boxes)

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 1, Subseries 6. Wage-rule files, 1939-1970.

Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 1, Subseries 6. Wage-rule files, 1939-1970.

Files on wage rules include hearings, proceedings, agreements, and awards regarding a strike for the 40-hour week, and the wage increase movement (1950); yard decisions (1943-1954) of the General Grievance Committee, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system; minutes of a meeting of the General Grievance Committee, BRT, Boston and Maine Railroad (1961): an agreement (1910) between BRT and Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad regarding pay, rules and regulations (1910); transcript of hearings on Rule #14 (basic daily rate of yard conductor foremen); schedules of wage adjustments (1923, 1944, 1955-1957, 1962); seniority rosters (1963-1970); mediation agreements (1955-1960); Baltimore and Ohio Railroad TRAINMEN'S BULLETIN (1949-1963); reports of the Standing Committee, BRT Local Grievance Committee (1937-1952); and minutes of the New York Association BRT.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63891016 View

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company records, 1860-1999.

Title: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company records, 1860-1999.

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company Records document the management and operation of the company throughout its long history, from around 1850 to 1999. These materials contain information about Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE), as well as the various branch lines that, along with P&LE, were controlled by the New York Central Railroad System from 1883 until 1968, and later by Penn Central from 1968 until 1970. Regardless of the large number of materials, this is not a complete record of P&LE history, or of its subsidiaries. The manuscript material includes a large number of bound ledgers of meeting minutes, statistics, operational logs, and reports. Many ledgers contain letter or telegraph correspondence between personnel, external companies, subsidiaries, and employees. Employee records comprise card indexes, files, and folders of terminated, retired, furloughed, and deceased employees as well as applications, recommendations, rates of pay, sick and vacation time, and union agreements. Legal documents consist of claims and grievances against P&LE by employees, companies, cities, and citizens; articles of agreement concerning the lease of equipment, land, and tracks; and contracts between P&LE, its subsidiaries and associate companies. Publications scattered throughout the collection include federal regulations (many of the Interstate Commerce Commission), company safety policy and handbooks, national railroad magazines, and multi-railroad agreements. Bulletins and notices were distributed within the company and sometimes are referred to as 'pink sheets.' There is also a substantial presence of blueprints of buildings and tracks and schematics for equipment and machinery. The collection contains over two thousand feet of 16mm motion picture film depicting railroad work crews in the 1930s, various construction projects, a parade of boats on the Monongahela River, and safety and training procedures. Audio cassettes relate to personal safety of employees and the operation of certain railroad equipment. Slides depict safety training exercises and methods, hazardous materials, and other standard safety practices. The film, cassettes, and slides are noted in the Training Materials series. Only the Photographs series in this collection has been processed. The remaining materials have been housed in records boxes, manuscript boxes, filing cabinets, or paper wrappings and still remain in their original folders or none at all. All materials are available for on-site review.

ArchivalResource: 912.68 linear ft. (688 records boxes + 14 manuscript boxes + 5 tubes + 1 flat file folder + 16 oversized items + 18 filing cabinet drawers).

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Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh. Northwest System. Office of General Superintendent. Records, 1885-1920 (bulk 1905-1920).

Title: Records, 1885-1920 (bulk 1905-1920).

The records of the General Superintendent-Northwest System are surviving fragments preserved by several successor offices.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134333 View

J.P. Morgan & Co. $2,400,000 the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie R.R. Co. 6 1/2% equipment trust of 1920 : syndicate records, 1920 Sept. 30.

Title: $2,400,000 the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie R.R. Co. 6 1/2% equipment trust of 1920 : syndicate records, 1920 Sept. 30.

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Penn Central Transportation Company Records, 1835-1981, 1835-1960

Title: Penn Central Transportation Company Records 1835-1981 1835-1960

Records of railroad companies, mainly Michigan lines, absorbed with the merger of the New Yok Central Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company into the Penn Central Transportation Company.

ArchivalResource: 273 linear ft. and 144 oversize volumes

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Series 5, Subseries 1. Agreements, 1891-1965.

Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Series 5, Subseries 1. Agreements, 1891-1965.

The major railroads represented include Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (1901-1929), Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1892-1933), Canadian National Railroad/West (1893-1953), Canadian Pacific Railroad (1898-1954), Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (1942-1951), Cleveland Union Terminal Railroad (1944-1965), Colorado and Southern Railroad (1900-1953), Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (1902-1957), Great Northern Railway (1929-1941), Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe (1906-1965), Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad (1910-1927), Illinois Central Railroad (1893-1939), Iowa Central Railroad (1902-1911), and Kansas City Southern Railway (1897-1946). Other railroads represented include Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (1905-1932), Lehigh and New England Railroad (1911-1928), Long Island Railroad (1899-1935), Louisville and Nashville Railroad (1903-1940), Michigan Central Railroad (1900-1953), Maine Central Railroad (1902-1943), Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (1901-1943), Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (1897-1941), Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (1911-1919), Missouri Pacific Railroad (1891-1937), Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (1907-1944), New York, Ontario and Western Railroad (1900-1947), New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company (1901-1951), New York Central Railroad (1900-1963), Northern Pacific Railroad (1894-1928), and Pennsylvania Railroad (1902-1941). Other railroads represented include Oregon and Washington Railroad (1898-1930), Oregon Shortline Railroad (1900-1929), Norfolk and Western Railway (1899-1943), Norfolk, Portsmouth and Belt Railroad (1912-1929), Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (1894-1944), Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway (1901-1929), Pere Marquette Railway (1900-1924), Quebec Central Railroad (1907-1929), Pacific Electric Railway (1935-1945), Rutland Railroad (1906-1955), San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (1904-1914), Southern Railroad (1889-1927), St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad (1903-1929), Southern Pacific Railroad (Pacific System) (1892-1935), and St. Louis Southwestern Railway (1899-1937). Other railroads represented include Texas and Pacific Railroad (1898-1944), Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad (1907-1919), Ulster and Delaware Railroad (1906-1921), Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (1901-1930), Union Pacific Railway (1923-1950), Virginia Railroad (1909-1928), Wabash Railroad (1900-1929), Western Maryland Railway (1907-1946), and Western Pacific Railroad. The agreements files also include briefs and dockets of cases before the National Railroad Adjustment Board (NRAB), petitions, seniority lists, financial dockets, letters and memos, fact sheets, Emergency Board presidential reports, press releases, and pamphlets relating to BRT agreements. Include agreements, chiefly covering rules, rates of pay, wages, regulations and working conditions; also interpretations of working agreements, vacation agreements, supplemental agreements and mediation agreements. Approximately 400 railroads are represented.

ArchivalResource: 24 linear ft.

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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company transportation way-bill, 1881 Sept. 23.

Title: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company transportation way-bill, 1881 Sept. 23.

Transportation way-bill of glassware for G. M. D. Heard, of Chattanooga, Tenn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.).

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Wilbur L. Metz Collection of Railroad Ephemera

Title: Wilbur L. Metz Collection of Railroad Ephemera

ArchivalResource: 1.3 Cubic feet (4 boxes)

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Jackson and Sharp Company. Records, 1869-1946 (bulk 1898-1905).

Title: Records, 1869-1946 (bulk 1898-1905).

The records consist of six lots of miscellaneous material acquired from different individuals who salvaged them from the plant after its closing. At that time, the builder's negatives were given to the Delaware State Archives.

ArchivalResource: 4.1 linear ft.

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H. H. Copeland Maps and Tables, 1924-1956

Title: H. H. Copeland Maps and Tables 1924-1956

The Transportation Library's collection of H. H. Copeland and Son's maps consist of 74 maps and tables on U. S. railways dating from the early 1930's to the mid 1950's. The Copeland maps consist of traffic density maps and tables on ton miles, freight density and traffic distribution and other railway related tables and calculations. H. H. Copeland and Sons were an investment house, in existence from the late 19th century to at least the mid 1950's. The company ordered the compilations for the maps and tables to support their own business interests and would not allow the items to be copied.

ArchivalResource: 74.00

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

Title: Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

Subject files include materials on all aspects of the work of the Board. Of interest are the files on the issues of caboose use by railroad crews, flagging, the full crew issue, the Pennsylvania Railroad-New York Central Railroad merger, sanitary conditions in the workplace, and unemployment compensation. Caboose use data include letters of S.F. Dwyer (director, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry), C.J. Sludden, Bruce J. Milliren (secretary, Industrial Board of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry), legislative representatives and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) members. Correspondence regards lack of maintenance and improper conditions in rider cars, the use of reflectorized markers and rear end marker lamps; caboose inspection reports of the Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry; a BRT petition for an amendment to regulations regarding industrial sanitation and railroad sanitation; and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad caboose repair reports, among other documents (1955-1965). Flagging files include Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) accident investigation reports, wage rates, and a statement at hearings on the Reading Railroad; letters of C.J. Sludden, Al H. Chesser, J.W. Reinhard (secretary, Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission), J.J. Dillon (legislative representative, BRT Lodge No. 382), J.M. Reilly (general chairman), Charles Luna, and Thomas Park Shearer (attorney) regarding unsafe conditions on the Pennsylvania Railroad (East), discussions of rear end flag protection, flagging rule #99, road and yard crews consist issues, minimum safe crew consist, and a petition by railroad brotherhoods for flagging regulations; "State's Right to Require Supplemental Train Protection in View of the Interstate Commerce Act," a paper (1968); briefs of cases before the Supreme Court on the issue; ICC investigations of accidents resulting from signal failure and related causes (1962); operating rules for railroads with respect to flag protection against following trains; case briefs before the Public Service Commission, the BRT vs. the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Pennsylvania Railroad, Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; and monthly statistics on reportable injuries or accidents involving employees (1954-1964); and other related documents. Files on full crew laws (1915-1966) include letters of George B. Roward, Harry G. Walsh (vice-chairman, State Legislative Board, BRT), Thomas J. McGrath (general counsel), H.C. Walsh (chairman, Pennsylvania State Legislative Board), A.F. Whitney, J.A. Farquharson (national legislative representative, BRT), C.J. Sludden, H.F. Sites (chairman, General Grievance Committee, BRT), Charles Luna, W.P. Kennedy, and W.L. Reed (assistant to the president, BRT) and others, discussing accidents, safety regulations, the full crew bill before the Pennsylvania legislature, the Supreme Court's enforcement of full crew laws, and the establishment of minimum requirements in equipping railroad cars used in employee transportation; papers on full crew and train limit bills, social progress and railroad costs; report of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Special Committee on the full crew and train limit bills of Pennsylvania (1935); report on operations of crews to and from various terminals on Pennsylvania railroads; and reports on full crew violations (1956-1958). Files also include legal materials for cases before the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission and the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission regarding investigations into violations of full crew laws, chiefly involving the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen vs. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Monongahela Railway, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Cumberland Valley Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Files regarding the merger of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads include correspondence of W.P. Kennedy and C.J. Sludden; reviews of the economic consequences of the merger for the state of Pennsylvania and for railroad employees; requests for additional ICC hearings on the impact of the merger; documents relating to the development of an "Anti-Merger" Committee; and legal documents, statistical compilations and other data regarding its impact. Also included is a 1966 agreement between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads and employees represented by the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen detailing employment procedures in the event of a merger (ca. 1962-1966). Railroad sanitary condition information (1951-1965) includes letters of S.F. Dwyer, C.J. Sludden, and Eugene Zapparelli (superintendent, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry) regarding sanitary regulations; reports pertaining to corrective measures for unsafe and unsanitary conditions on Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and Reading Railroad. Unemployment compensation files (1955-1966) contain copies of proposed legislation, statements by Harry Boyer and J.L. Shearer (Bethlehem Steel Corporation) before the Joint State Government Commissioners Task Force on Unemployment Compensation; "Let's Not Squander the Opportunity to Revise Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Program," a paper by Milton Shapp; testimony on HR.8282, the employment security amendments; and a report by Jack B. Brown (executive director, Bureau of Employment Security) on progress achieved by Pennsylvania's reform of unemployment compensation programs, among numerous other documents.

ArchivalResource: 38.7 linear ft.

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Barriger, John W. (John Walker), 1899-1976. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad : an address / by John W. Barriger ... before the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Title: The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad : an address / by John W. Barriger ... before the New York Society of Security Analysts. 1960 July 22.

ArchivalResource: 32, [34] leaves ; 28 cm.

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