University Railroad Collection undated, 1841-1993.

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University Railroad Collection, undated, 1841-1993.

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University Railroad Collection undated, 1841-1993.

Resource Link

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/univrr/MSS19970041.html

Abstract

This is an artificial collection of publications, timetables, forms, reports, track diagrams and charts, equipment blueprints, maps, drawings and artwork, and photographs almost exclusively associated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and its predecessor railroad lines, gathered from many donors and purchases.

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65.0 Linear feet

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Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6332660

Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

Related Entities

There are 98 Entities related to this resource.

Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (1899-)

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The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees was organized in 1899 in Sedalia, Missouri as the Order of Railway Clerks of America. It was initially affiliated with the American Federation of Labor but the tie was severed in 1901 and did not resume for many years. Union name variants were the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks (1904); Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (1919); and the Brotherhood of Railwa...

Old Colony Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69m52z3 (corporateBody)

United States. Federal Railroad Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k17v7k (corporateBody)

Providence and Worcestor Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zj2s43 (corporateBody)

Dulmaine, William Jr.

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Paul LaBerge

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Hartford & New Haven Railroad Company

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J. A. Clancy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nt70sz (person)

Gorham Smith

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West Stockbridge Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m8gj6 (corporateBody)

Providence & Worcester Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv61gj (corporateBody)

Meriden, Southington and Compounce Tramway.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m77kdw (corporateBody)

Bronx & Pelham Parkway

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Consolidated Railway Company

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Charles Gunn

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Sidney Reynolds

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Flowers Sleeping Car Company

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Consolidated Rail Corporations

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New Haven & Northampton Railroad

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James H. Brush

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69187kh (person)

Windsor Locks & Suffield Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g60q9z (corporateBody)

Norfolk and Western Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61w42h5 (corporateBody)

Bongiorno, Joseph A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p86pgm (person)

Unknown. From the guide to the Joseph A. Bongiorno Collection of Passenger Operations Services of the New Haven Railroad., 1966-1980., (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center .) ...

Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61x1dtj (corporateBody)

New York, New London & Stonington Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69n0b26 (corporateBody)

New York Central Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs065w (corporateBody)

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...

Boreskie, Joseph P.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t59xsw (person)

Berkshire Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62w8gkv (corporateBody)

Boston & Maine Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tw0qrs (corporateBody)

Bonjiorno, Joseph A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fs611x (person)

Penn Central

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6267j4k (corporateBody)

Berkshire Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bb17z6 (corporateBody)

Salem & Lowell Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65k3gdj (corporateBody)

Association of American railroads

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf444q (corporateBody)

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 ...

U. S. Railroad Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k20cxf (corporateBody)

Sullivan, Michael J. (Michael James), 1954-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63078tg (person)

St. John's University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wv1zz1 (corporateBody)

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g48khb (corporateBody)

In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...

Torrington & Winchester Street Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62h3nff (corporateBody)

H. K. Scott

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ts261w (person)

Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68r20xr (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d3k0m (corporateBody)

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...

National Railroad Passenger Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62h3n7r (corporateBody)

Cambridge Electric Light Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6044rg3 (corporateBody)

New York and New England Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb55zf (corporateBody)

Amtrak

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61k43z9 (corporateBody)

PennCentral

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nx5j67 (corporateBody)

S. F. Mackay

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rh20fd (person)

Stockbridge & Pittsfield Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rh1tsf (corporateBody)

Pearson, E. J., 1863-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h57w7r (person)

Elisha Dyer

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nj0vmn (person)

Boston and Maine Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t195fx (corporateBody)

Connecticut Valley Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs8xz6 (corporateBody)

Fales & Jenks Machine Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds8vj1 (corporateBody)

New Haven, New London, and Stonington Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hp18j7 (corporateBody)

LaBerge, Paul

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h295w9 (person)

Central New England Railway

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jn89ht (corporateBody)

Meriden, Waterbury, & Connecticut River Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx8f97 (corporateBody)

University of Connecticut (Collector).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wv4tg7 (corporateBody)

For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven & 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 ...

Harlem River and Portchester Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wc1951 (corporateBody)

Hamilton, John R.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x49s0h (person)

American Train Dispatchers Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6810x4m (corporateBody)

New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk0g8w (corporateBody)

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 York, Providence & Boston Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cm4dhn (corporateBody)

Hudson River & Portchester Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66c33kg (corporateBody)

John F. Dias

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6684hm7 (person)

New Haven Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65k3gks (corporateBody)

Penn Central Transportation Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck243v (corporateBody)

The Penn Central Transportation Company was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (1846-1968) and the New York Central Railroad Company (1853-1968). The companies also absorbed the smaller New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. All three companies were the result of the consolidation of many smaller, regional rail lines throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new corporation was short lived, declaring bankruptcy in June 1970. The United States go...

Metro-North Commuter Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds8vbb (corporateBody)

Central Vermont Railway Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s4r8z (corporateBody)

First Congregationalist Society

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Housatonic Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s4kvh (corporateBody)

Hatch, P. H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62w8m6k (person)

Central Vermont Railway Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s4r8z (corporateBody)

E. J. Pearson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c98ffk (person)

Salem & Lowell Railroads

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6781fmk (corporateBody)

Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s7w8x (person)

Shore Line Electric Railway

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6587c1s (corporateBody)

Railroad yards.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sg8w3x (corporateBody)

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...

University Railroad Collection undated, 1841-1993.

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