Joseph R. Snopek Railroad Collection undated, 1902-1999

Fitchburg Railroad

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Rutland Railway

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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad

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Amtrak

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Boston & Albany Railroad

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Boston and Maine Railroad

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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Boston & Maine

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Delaware and Hudson Railway

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Lehigh Valley Railroad.

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Association of American railroads

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The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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The MBTA is the state agency responsible for the public transportation system in the Boston metropolitan area. From the description of Glass plate collection on the MBTA, 1896-1940 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 234360181 The Boston Elevated Railway Company was established in 1894 and replaced successively by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in 1947 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1964. From the description of Boa...

Erie-Lackawanna Railway

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Morrisen Knudsen Corporation

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New York Central Railroad

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853. However, it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s and 1890s the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland from the east and west. During the early twentieth century the railroad built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that wer...

New England Central Railroad

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New Haven Railroad Technical Information Association

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Canadien Pacifique

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ConRail

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The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on February 10, 1976, for the purpose of taking over the viable portions of the Penn Central Transportation Company and other bankrupt Northeastern railroads as determined by the 1975 Final System Plan of the United States Railway Association. Conrail''s securities were owned by the federal government for funds advanced, and by its employees for wage and hours givebacks. Initial operation was as troubled and unprofitabl...

Maine Central Railroad Company

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In 1845 the Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad was chartered to build a line from Danville Junction on the Atlantic & St. Lawrence (Grand Trunk) to Waterville, and the Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad was chartered to extend the Androscoggin & Kennebec line to Bangor. The former line was completed to Waterville in 1849, and the first train entered Bangor over the latter road in August, 1855. These railroads, forming a continuous line between Danville Junction and Bangor, were consolid...

Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc.

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Chicago and North Western Transportation Company

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Union Pacific Railroad

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The Union Pacific Railroad is the largest railroad network in the United States. The railroad was incorporated on 1 July 1862 in the wake of the Pacific Railroad Act. From the guide to the Union Pacific Railroad vouchers, 1899, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) At the turn of the century Montana copper-king and Senator William A. Clark incorporated the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad intending to connect the Los Angeles port of San Pedro, Califo...

Portland Terminal Company

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Chartered 1911; owned by Maine Central Railroad Co.; a railroad terminal company responsible for the operation of Rigby Yard in South Portland, Me. From the description of Portland Terminal Company records, 1911-1955. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 82154380 Portland Terminal Company, Portland, Me., chartered 1911; owned by Maine Central Railroad Company. From the description of Portland Terminal Company records, 1917-1924. (Maine Historic...

Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad

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Bangor & Aroostook

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New Haven Railroad

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Snopek, Joseph. (Collector)

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Joseph R. Snopek was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and worked for Allied Resources Corporation in East Hartford, Connecticut, as the Director for Technical Services Engineered Safety Systems and Chief Engineer. He was a resident of Granby, Massachusetts, beginning in 1965 and a member of the Civil Air Patron and the National Guard. He died on November 4, 2000, in Holyoke. Mr. Snopek was a co-author, ...

Canadian National Railroad

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Long Island Rail Road

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Boston & Maine Railroad

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Burlington Northern

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Central Vermont Railroad.

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Delaware and Hudson Railroad

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Boston and Albany Railroad Co.

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Formed in 1867 by merger of the Boston and Worcester Railroad (chartered 1831) and the Western Railroad (chartered 1833). Leased to the New York Central in 1899. From the description of Records, 1831-1898 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269580906 The Boston and Albany Railroad Company resulted from the development and eventual merger of several railroad lines built to connect eastern Massachusetts with eastern New York state. The firs...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Pullman Standard

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Metro-North Commuter Railroad.

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Penn Central

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Guilford Transportation Industries Rail Division

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United States Railroad Administration

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Providence and Worcester Railroad

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Penn Central Railroad

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Central Vermont

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New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad

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For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York. Approximately one hundred small independent railroads were built in southern New England between 1826 and the 1880s. B...

New Jersey Transit

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Erie Lackawanna Inc.

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Providence & Worcester Railroad.

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The Providence & Worcestor Railroad was incorporated in Massachusetts as the Providence and Worcester Railway on March 12, 1844, and as the Providence and Worcester Railroad in Rhode Island in May 1844. The two companies merged November 25, 1845, as the Providence and Worcester Railroad . The company bought the Blackstone Canal, also running between Providence, Rhode Island, and Worcester, Massachusetts, and began construction, partly on its banks, in 1845. The line opened in tw...

Missouri Pacific Railroad

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Canadian Pacific Railroad

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