York Railways Company records, 1896-1945.

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York Railways Company records, 1896-1945.

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Company records include land contracts (8 boxes, 1890-1940) and annual reports made to Pennsylvania Bureau of Railways, the Dept. of Internal Affairs, Public Service Commission, Pennsylvania Public Utility Division, and other state departments (6 boxes, 1896-1939, 1945); stock certificates; leases; court documents; blueprints; petitions in connection with the sale of the York Bus Co.; and letter referring to Penn Park and Colonial lines. Employee papers include scrapbook of Erwin A. Bernitz (1953); union working card (1943) of Austin Buckingham, issued by Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; certificates, news clippings, financial documents, and estate record of Samuel W. Masmer; news clippings; miscellaneous notes; coroner's inquest (1905) relating to a trolley accident near Dallastown, Pa., which killed several people; company history; correspondence with Historical Society of York County; and books and articles relating to the company: York County Trolleys (1978) by Benson W. Rohrbeck; York Railways (1964) by John D. Denney, Jr.; Motorcoach Age (1982); and The Trolley Triumph of Transport (1971), by William M. Moedinger; and news article on the last run of trolleys in York (1939), with pictures of trolleys.

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York County Historical Trust

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York Bus Company.

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York Railways Company

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Organized 1907 by a merger of York County, Pa., electric railway companies originally controlled by York Traction Co.; last run of trolleys in York was in 1939; purchased all stock in York Bus Co.; chartered in 1931; reorganized under bankruptcy in 1937; streetcar operations ceased in 1939; sold York Bus Co., 1941 and continued to own electric power and steam heat; liquidated in 1946; succeeded by Metropolitan Edison Company. From the description of York Railways Company records, 189...

Pennsylvania. Bureau of Railways

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Moedinger, William M.

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Bernitz, Erwin A.

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Pennsylvania. Public Service Commission

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Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

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Pennsylvania. Dept. of Internal Affairs.

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Buckingham, Austin.

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York Traction Company.

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Rohrbeck, Benson W.

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Denney, John D.

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