Records of railroads of New England and New York, 1830-1927 (inclusive).

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Records of railroads of New England and New York, 1830-1927 (inclusive).

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269582356

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Monthly reports of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railway Co. (1919-1927); account books for the Malden Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad (1857-1865); records of the Easton Branch, Boston and Providence Railroad (1855-1866); time book for the Cheshire Railroad, Keene, N.H. (1891-1896); financial records of the Eastern Railroad, Boston (1839-1840, 1874-1877); records of the Harvard Branch Railroad, Cambridge, Mass. (1848-1855) and of the Hudson River Railroad, N.Y. (1848-1854); papers of the Machias Port Railroad Co., Machias, Me. (1836-1855); minutes of the Marginal Freight Railway, Boston (1867-1882); ticket agent accounts for the Newburyport Railroad Co., including some personal accounts of Lewis K.H. Lane; account book of Passumpsic River Railroad, N.H. (1877); by-laws and reports of the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway (1893-1898); statements of the Portland and Rochester Railroad (1881-1895); records of the Portsmouth and Concord Railroad (1845-1857); freight record of the Rutland and Washington Railroad (1858-1860); records of the South Shore Railroad, Weymouth, Mass. (1854-1874), the Stoughton Branch Railroad, Stoughton, Mass. (1842-1853), Sudbury Railroad Co., Sudbury, Vt. (1850-1854), the Sullivan Railroad, N.H. (1849-1861), and Vermont Central Railroad, Northfield, Vt. (1845-1867); freight records of the Western Vermont Railroad (1852-1858); and payroll book of York and Cumberland Railroad, Maine (1857). There are also a volume of letters and memoranda relating to various small railroads in the Mohawk Valley which became parts of the New York Central (1830-1851); a collection of agreements relating to various railroads in Maine from the office of Josiah Drummond; one volume of tables of C.W. Kettell relating to the arches of the Boston and Providence Railroad Depot in Boston (1873); records of railroad cases in Vermont from Judge John Prout (1848-1858); and Interstate Commerce Commission statistics on New England railroads (ca. 1915).

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ca. 10 linear ft. (42 v., 18 boxes, 2 envelopes, 1 folder)

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7174349

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Machias Port Railroad Company.

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Passumpsic River Railroad.

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Belknap, F. S.

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Kettell, C. W.

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Lane, Lewis K. H.

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Marginal Freight Railway.

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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 ...

Portland and Oxford Central Railroad

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Chartered in 1857, the Portland and Oxford Central Railroad took control of the property and assets of the Buckfield Branch Railroad Company in that year. In 1878 the Portland and Oxford Central Railroad was placed under the receivership of the Rumford Falls and Buckfield Railroad, and was sold to the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway in 1896. From the description of Records of the Portland and Oxford Central Railroad Company, 1857-1875. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat ...

Rutland and Washington Railroad.

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Harvard Branch Railroad.

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Penobscot Shore Line.

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Rumford Falls and Buckfield Railroad

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Chartered in 1874, became receiver of the Portland and Oxford Central Railroad in 1878, and was purchased by the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway Company in 1896. From the description of Records of the Rumford Falls and Buckfield Railroad Company, 1874-1899. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 676973712 ...

Hudson River Railroad

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Drummond, Josiah Hayden, 1856-1921

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Prout, John W.

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Sudbury Railroad.

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Knox and Lincoln Railroad.

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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...

Stoughton Branch Railroad.

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Portland and Rumford Falls Railroad Co.

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Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad.

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York and Cumberland Railroad (Me.)

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Boston and Maine Railroad

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Cheshire Railroad.

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Newburyport Railroad Company.

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Vermont Central Railroad

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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...

Records of railroads of New England and New York, 1830-1927 (inclusive).

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