| Accession Number: | SC 18:17 |
| Location: | RB-M |
| Dates: | 1894-1968 |
| Size: | 1 record carton; 1.0 cubic foot |
| Creator/Collector: | SLPL Staff |
| Acquisition info: | Various sources |
| Accruals: | No accruals expected |
| Custodial history: | Unknown |
| Language: | English |
| Processed by: | Melissa Miller, March 2018 |
| Conservation notes: | Items placed in acid-free folders |
| Scope and Content: |
The collection contains advertisements, reports, and assorted publications for United States railroads. |
| Arrangement: | Alphabetical by railroad company |
| Restrictions: | No restrictions |
| Remarks: | No remarks |
Railroad Literature
1894-1968
1 record carton; 1.0 cubic foot
| Box/Folder | Description |
| 1/1 | Finding Aid |
| 1/2 | American Electric Railway Association
-Coordination of Electric Railway and Bus Transportation; 1923 -Coordination of Motor Vehicle and Electric Railway Service by Electric Railways; 1924 |
| 1/3 | American Federation of Labor
-The Case of the Railway Shopman; 1922 |
| 1/4 | Association of American Railroads
-Day of Two Noons; 1941 -Railroads in Two Wars; ca. 1942 -Development of Railroad Transportation in the United States; 1945 (2) -Railroads at Work; 1945-1954 (2) -Names and Nicknames of Freight Trains; 1948-1949 (3) -Named Passenger Trains; 1950 -Quiz on Railroads and Railroading; 1950 -Chronology of American Railroads; 1953-1954 (2) -Highlights of American Railroad History; 1954 -List of Principal Railroads in the United States; 1954 -Rail Oddities; 1956 -Rail Transport and the Winning of Wars; 1956 -Yearbook of Railroad Facts; 1965 -Railroad Histories and Sources of Historical Information about Railroads |
| 1/5 | Association of Southeastern Railroads
-Railroad Information; 1954 |
| 1/6 | Association of Western Railways
-Railroad Facts; 1954 |
| 1/7 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
-One Hundred Years of Railroad Progress; 1927 -First Air Conditioned Railroad Trains; 1932 |
| 1/8 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
-Route to the Springs Mountains and Seashore Resorts; 1905 -Annotated Time Table; 1909 -Agricultural and Industrial Outlook along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Lines; 1923 -George Washington’s Railroad; 1935 (2) -Leaves from a Traveler’s Notebook; 1938 |
| 1/9 | Chicago and Northwestern Line
-The Famous “400” |
| 1/10 | Eastern Railroad
-Yearbook of Railroad Information; 1954 |
| 1/11 | Fifth Avenue Coach Company
-Answered in Full |
| 1/12 | Frisco Lines
-Feathers and Fins on the Frisco; 1900 -Coach Travel; 1939 -Grow More Soybeans; 1939 -Friscorama; 1947 (2) -Addresses by Clark Hungerford; 1949 -Opportunities |
| 1/13 | Great Northern Railway
-Autobiography of an Engine; 1909 -Empire Builder -Dedication and Opening of the New Cascade Tunnel (1929) |
| 1/14 | Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company
-Special Bulletin of the American Museum of Safety; 1916 |
| 1/15 | Kansas City Southern Railway Company
-Railroads—What of the Future?; 1923 -Great Indian Land Sale in Eastern Oklahoma |
| 1/16 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad
-The Georgian; 1946 -One Hundredth Anniversary; 1950 |
| 1/17 | Menus
-Boston and Albany Railroad (4) -Canadian National Railways -Chicago and Alton Railroad; 1922-1923 (4) -Frisco Lines (4) -Great Northern Railway; 1915 (6) -Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs en Route to Kansas City; 1917 -Northern Pacific Railway (2) -Rock Island Lines -San Francisco Limited |
| 1/18 | Missouri Pacific Railroad
-Important Revision of Trains Service; 1917 -Service: A Pageant of Progress; 1926 -Information; 1944 -How a New State of Mind Can Solve the Railroad’s Problems; 1959 |
| 1/19 | Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway
-Railroad Facts to Think About |
| 1/20 | National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
-The Motor Truck as a Supplement to the Railroads; 1920 -How Motor Trucks and Railways through Coordination of Effort Can Best Serve the Transportation Needs of the Country; 1931 |
| 1/21 | New York Central Railroad Company
-What the Railroad Has Done for America; 1928 |
| 2/22 | Norfolk and Western Railway
-Highest Award in Railroad Safety; 1938-1941 (2) -Powered by People; 1957 -Along the Right of Way -For the Utmost Progress -Industrial Opportunities in the Land of Plenty -Our Railroad! |
| 1/23 | Northern Pacific Railway
-Free Government Land; 1911 -From Office to Orchard; 1950 -Northern Pacific Rivers -Traveling in the Lap of Luxury (3) |
| 1/24 | Northwestern Line
-Northwestern Homesteads |
| 1/25 | Pennsylvania Railroad
-Address by Ivy L. Lee; 1914 -Historical and Descriptive with Annotated Map; 1916 -Our Mutual Rights to Settle Our Own Affairs; 1921 -To Save People from Too Much Hurry; ca. 1924 -Railroads and Trucks; 1932 -American and Spirit of St. Louis Air-Conditioned; 1934 -Enjoy a Luxury Fleet; 1941 |
| 1/26 | Pullman Company
-Pullman Surcharge; 1927 -Pullman Progress; 1859-1929 (4) -Pullman Diamond Jubilee; 1934 -Pullman Accommodations; 1939 -Single Section Occupancy; 1939 -Exploding the Myth of Cheaper European Rates -Hidden Mechanisms of a Pullman Car -How a Pullman Car is Lighted -Peripatetics of a Pullman Car -Pullman Bureau of Tests -Pullman Travel Tale for Little Folks -Reserve Your Duplex Room -Strike at Pullman -Travel at Reduced Rates to Your Favorite Summer Resort -Travel the Educator |
| 1/27 | Railroadians of America
-Railroad Historical Research; 1946 |
| 1/28 | Railway Executives’ Advisory Committee
-Under Forty-nine Masers; 1916 |
| 1/29 | Railway Express
-Romance of Railway Express |
| 1/30 | Reading Railroad Company
-Report on Reading; 1945 -This Is the Reading |
| 1/31 | Rock Island Railroad
-Rock Island-Frisco System; 1909 -Story of Rock Island’s 70th Anniversary Celebration; 1922 -Marvel of the Midland; 1941 -Rock Island: The Path into and out of Receivership |
| 1/32 | Ruthven Railway Signal Company
-Railway Accidents and How They Can Be Prevented |
| 1/33 | St. Louis Southwestern Railway
-St. Louis Southwestern Railway; 1923 |
| 1/34 | Santa Fe Railroad
-No Need for the Santa Fe; 1946 |
| 1/35 | Southern Illinois and St. Louis Railway
-Questions and Answers; 1915 |
| 1/36 | Southern Pacific Railroad
-Southern Pacific Company: Pioneers of Western Progress; 1929 -Southern Pacific’s First Century; 1955 |
| 1/37 | Southern Railway System
-Southern Railway Belongs to the People of the South; 1914 -Southern Railway; 1925 -Southern Serves the South; 1927 -Southern Serves and Sells the South; 1944 -Modern Railroads; 1953 -Introducing the New Southern Market; 1954 -Study of the Southern Railway Company; 1958 -In Behalf of the South; 1960 -75th Annual Meeting of Stockholders; 1968 |
| 1/38 | Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
-St. Louis—East St. Louis Terminal Lines; 1911 -Evidence Submitted in the Coal Rate Case Hearing; 1913 -Map of East St. Louis and Vicinity; 1920 (2) -The Post-Dispatch, Star, and the Bridge Bill; ca. 1927 (2) -Statement of the Trunk Line Railroads of St. Louis upon the Proposed Exchange of Uses of the Eads and Municipal Bridges; 1927 (3) -St. Louis Plan of Unified Railway Terminals; 1928 (2) -Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis; 1928 -Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Statistics; 1928 (2) -St. Louis Railroad Facilities |
| 1/39 | Union Pacific Railroad
-Homeseekers’ Opportunities in the West; 1909 -Opening Statement of RS Lovett; 1922 -At Grade Crossings; 1923 -Romance of the Pony Express; 1924 -“An American Trail of the Ages” from Union Pacific Magazine; 1926 -“Built to Preserve the Union” from Union Pacific Magazine; 1927 -Tomorrow’s Train Today!; 1934 (2) -Union Pacific Railroad: A Brief History; 1946-1952 (2) -How the Union Pacific-Rock Island Merger and Related Proposals Affect You |
| 1/40 | Western Pacific
-Time Tables for the Feather River Route; 1941 |
| 1/41 | Western Railways’ Committee on Public Relations
-The Sleeping Car “Surcharge”; 1926 |
