Records, 1894-1945 (bulk 1903-1938).

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.)

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Records have remained in the custody of the St. Louis Art Museum (formerly St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts) since their creation during the period 1901-1909. Although the World's Fair itself was in operation from April to Dec. 1904, years of preparation by the Art Department preceded the exhibition of American and foreign art works, and many months were required to conclude departmental affairs following the closing. The Art Dept. Chief, Halsey C. Ives, was al...

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

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Industrialist and inventor of the compressed air brake George Westinghouse incorporated the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in 1891. With its giant factory located in East Pittsburgh, Pa., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company soon became the Edison General Electric Company's main rival in the contest to provide electricity to the United States. While Edison General Electric pioneered the generation and distribution of direct current (DC) electricity, Westinghou...

Jacobs-Shupert United States Firebox Company

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Test Dept.

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The Test Department was a subunit of the Motive Power Department and consisted of two interrelated but autonomous bodies, the Department of Physical Tests and the Chemical Laboratory. The Department of Physical Tests was created in March, 1874, and the first test was conducted on April 4. The work was initially performed by the Master Mechanic of the Altoona Shops, but in August, 1874, John W. Cloud was put in charge of the department. He was given the title Engineer of ...

Wallis, James T., 1868-1930.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

American society for testing materials

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Waring, F. M. (Francis M.), 1879-

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Baldwin-Southwark Corporation

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Jones, Lloyd B., b. 1882.

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Frigidaire Corporation

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American Railway Association

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Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)

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The Rexford, Mont., station of the Great Northern Railway was established in 1903. It was closed in 1972 when the railroad was rerouted due to the flooding of the area behind the Libby Dam. The building was moved to Eureka where it became part of the Tobacco Valley Historical Village Museum. From the description of Records of the Rexford Station, Rexford, Mont., 1952-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962045 On 23 Feb. 1910 two Great Northern Railway trains--the "Seattle...

Russian Imperial Railways.

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J.G. Brill Company

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Association of the Transportation Officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Association of the Transportation Officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad was a professional organization whose membership was drawn from the Transportation (Operating) Department of the PRR's Lines East Organization. Its goal was to determine, through thorough investigation and frank discussion among those most closely involved, the best methods of operation that could be employed on the PRR. This included the standardization of rules and equipment, the elimination of...

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 ...

Vogt, Axel S., 1849?-1921.

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United States Railroad Administration

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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U.S. railroad, primarily in the Midwest and West; headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Name changed from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after bankruptcy reorganization in 1895. From the description of Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228418621 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) was founded by Cyrus K. Holiday in Kansas in 1859. By 1888 the railroad s...

Altoona Railroad Club.

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Edison Portland Cement Company

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Ely, Theo. N. (Theodore Newell), 1846-1916

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American society of mechanical engineers

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American Railway Master Mechanics' Association

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Gibbs, Alfred W. (Alfred Wolcott), 1856-1922

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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company

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The Atlantic Coast Line was based in Wilmington, N.C., and possessed rail that ran through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. The Atlantic Coast Line later formed part of the CSX Transportation System. From the description of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company records, 1900s-1950s [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31908801 The Central of Georgia Railway, formed from its predecessor, The Central Railroad and Bank...

Dudley, Charles Benjamin, 1842-1909

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Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp.

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Elsey, W. R. 1893-1973.

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New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

Electro-Motive Corporation.

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Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934

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Described by Theodore Roosevelt as ". . . one of the keenest naturalists we have ever had . . .," Edward William Nelson was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He developed an interest in the outdoors around his boyhood home in New England, and in Chicago where his family moved in 1868. Shortly after enrolling in Cooke County Normal School in 1872, Nelson was invited to join Edward Drinker Cope and Samuel Garman on a fossil collecting trip to the Badlands of Wyoming. After returning to Chicago, h...

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company

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Born 1 Feb. 1885 in Johnstown, Pa. Moved with family to Buffalo shortly after the Johnstown flood of 1889. When his parents died, he became the ward of his brother-in-law, C. George Hyde, who apprenticed him to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1902. From the description of Apprenticeship papers of John P. Loewer, 1902 May 5. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 44271315 Railroad company formed from a consolidation of the New York Central Railroad ...

General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

United States. Council of National Defense

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Superheater Company.

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Master Car-Builders' Association

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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

Lomonosov, I︠U︡. (I︠U︡riĭ), 1876-1952

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Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952) was a Russian railway engineer and administrator, who worked for the Soviet government in Sweden and Germany in the 1920s and then settled in Great Britain From the guide to the Iurii Lomonosov papers, 1893-1953, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Kiesel, William F. (William Frederic), 1866-1954

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Claymont Trials (1933-1938 : Claymont, Del.)

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Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company

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Young, Charles D. (Charles Duncanson), 1878-1955

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Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...