Trade catalogs of railroads, 1920-1948.

Chicago Railroad Fair (1948)

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The Chicago Railroad Fair, held during the summers of 1948 and 1949, was organized through the efforts of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, and its president, Lenox Riley Lohr (1891-1968). It celebrated the centennial of railroading from Chicago westward. The Fair was sponsored by U.S. railroad companies who contributed funds. From the description of Records, 1948-1952. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 53300076 ...

American Hoist & Derrick Company

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New England Railway Pub. Co.

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A.J. Poston (Firm)

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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...

The Northern Trust Company.

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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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...

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...

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...

Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Fitchburg Railroad

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European & North American Railway Company.

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General motors corporation

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Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.

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Dighton Somerset and Wansea Street Railway.

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Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

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Old Colony Railroad Company

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Chartered in 1844; opened for service from Boston to Plymouth, Mass., in 1845. Eventually blanketed southern Massachusetts with rail lines. Operated the famous boat train from Boston connecting with Fall River steamers for New York City. Passed into control of the New Haven system in 1893. From the description of Records, 1846-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269581169 ...

Samuel T. Freeman & Co.

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Auctioneers. From the description of Samuel T. Freeman auction pamphlet for Suncook mill houses, 1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 216934014 ...

Engineering News Publishing Co.

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Interurban Electric Railway Company.

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Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company

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Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

Central Vermont Railway Co.

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