Thomas R. Lewis Railroad collection, 1855-1974.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Thomas R. Lewis Railroad collection, 1855-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729715719

The collection consists of materials associated with and about the South Manchester Railroad and other railroads that were gathered by Dr. Thomas R. Lewis while he was working on his book Silk Along Steel: the Story of the South Manchester Railroad. The materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, a draft of the book, traffic vouchers (1882-1906) for the Philadelphia, Reading & New England Railroad and the Central New England Railway, timetables for the Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad (1877) and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1948-1953), photographs and postcards of locomotives and scenes of the South Manchester Railroad, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (including a wreck in 1933 in Manchester, Connecticut), Penn Central, Manchester, Connecticut, and buildings of the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company (1890s-1970s), and correspondence and writings of businessman A. Wells Case of South Manchester, Connecticut, about his invention of "A Perfect Car Coupler" (1884-1888). Of particular note is a 1855 annual report of the Clinton Line Railroad Company, possibly of Ohio, and a model of locomotive 4 of the South Manchester Railroad, done by Dr. Lewis in 1974

0.7 linear ft.

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8099524

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

South Manchester Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp6w6j (corporateBody)

Cheney family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63k2p6b (family)

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx79zh (corporateBody)

The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6103wj6 (corporateBody)

In 1838, six Cheney brothers established the Mount Nebo Silk Company in Manchester, CT . The company adopted the family name in 1843. Aided by booming national markets, a protective tariff, and innovative production methods, the company grew into the nation's largest and most profitable silk mill by the late 1880s. The company pioneered the waste-silk spinning method and the Grant's reel. At the beginning of World War I, the company employed over 4,700 workers. One out o...

Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6615z9j (corporateBody)

Penn Central Transportation Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck243v (corporateBody)

The Penn Central Transportation Company was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (1846-1968) and the New York Central Railroad Company (1853-1968). The companies also absorbed the smaller New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. All three companies were the result of the consolidation of many smaller, regional rail lines throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new corporation was short lived, declaring bankruptcy in June 1970. The United States go...

Central New England Railway Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf1qhv (corporateBody)

Case, A. Wells.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h464d5 (person)