Pennsylvania Railroad work rules and manuals, 1929-1960.

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Pennsylvania Railroad work rules and manuals, 1929-1960.

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This collection contains seven Pennsylvania Railroad booklets relating primarily to maintenance of way workers. It contains a 1945 agreement and its supplement between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company and the maintenance of way employees of both companies, which were represented by the Pennsylvania Federation of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. It also contains two copies of an instruction booklet for safe handling of gas and compressed air equipment (written by F.W. Hankins in 1929), one maintenance of way equipment manual (written by C.F. Montague, D.E. Rudisill, and C.J. Henry in 1960), and one book on operating signal and interlocking rules (1947). There is also a savings deposit book (1947 and 1948) with payroll entries for Helton Stone with the Pennsylvania Railroad Employes Provident and Loan Association.

7 booklets.

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Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company

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Rudisill, D. E.

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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...

Henry, C. J.

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Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees. Pennsylvania Federation

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Montague, C. F.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Employes Provident and Loan Association

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Employes' Provident and Loan Association was created on July 1, 1923 to replace and enlarge the scope of the earlier Employes' Saving Fund. The Association was organized as a mutual company governed by a board of thirty-five managers, half of which were appointed by management and half by those employees holding accounts. In addition to savings accounts, the Provident and Loan Association offered its members home improvement and emergency loans and the ability to purcha...

Stone, Helton

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Hankins, F. W. 1876-1958.

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