Records, 1918-1952 [microform].

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Records, 1918-1952 [microform].

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The valuation process required the creation of entire series of records, some of them different from but parallel to those the companies had been creating for their own use. The most significant were schedules of real property and capital improvements, specialized accounting papers, and the valuation maps. The "val maps" depicted the entire railroad broken down into uniform segments and at a large enough scale to show property lines and the exact arrangement of tracks and structures. Each section of a railroad was divided by the ICC into "valuation sections" and each section was broken down into a series of individual map sheets. The combination of valuation section number and sheet number, shown within a circle on the title block of each map, serves as the index to the series and also as the identifying key for the other paper records.

119 reels, 16 mm. microfilm.54 reels, 35 mm. microfilm.

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