U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs, 1960-1961
A number of the photographs were entered into evidence by the unions, but not all of them were used. In this collection, the U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs, both evidentiary photographs and those not used in the proceeding are gathered together to present a remarkably complete picture of the railroad industry and the surrounding American towns, cities, and countryside serviced by the railroads.
This collection includes seventeen detailed diagrams from approximately 1902 to 1908 illustrating how St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Frisco) railroad cars should be painted and lettered. Includes diagrams for coal cars, baggage cars, fruit cars, mail cars, chair cars, cabooses, refrigerator cars, box cars, and flat cars.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was organized on May 8, 1863 in Detroit, MI. The organization was fraternal in nature and only open to locomotive engineers; locomotive firemen and other railroad employees formed their own organizations.
The official monthly journal for Locomotive mechanics.
The Journal of the Switchmen's Union of North America
The official journal of the Switchmen's Union of North America.
This collection of images comes from the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Frisco) Laboratory, which was located in Springfield, Missouri. Dates range from approximately 1923-1979. Images include interior and exteriors of railroad cars; locomotives; accidents; broken parts examined at the lab; employees; company events; and more.
This digital collection includes a selection of ephemera, documents, postcards, photographs, and artifacts used in creating Special Collections and Archives' Frisco Travel Exhibit in 2008. The original items come from several different collections related to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company ("Frisco") now held by Special Collections and Archives.
Unions and Labor History Collection
This is a collection of stand-alone interviews pulled together by Archives and Special Collections around the topic of unions and labor in Montana. The collection includes interviews with railroad employees, miners, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers, and union members. These interviews were conducted from 1979-1994. The original interviews are held at Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula.
Alaska Railroad Commission Townsite lot sale volumes, 1915-1930
The Alaska Railroad Commission Townsite Lot Sales Volumes detail the sale of lots with the establishment of townsites for Nenana, Wasilla, Talkeetna, Seward, and Matanuska. These records were created by the Alaska Engineering Commission, now the Alaska Railroad Corporation, during planning and construction of the Alaska Railroad from 1914-1923.
Lelon E. Alexander papers; 1940-1997, bulk 1942-1957. Photographs of a soldier with the 714th Railway Operating Battalion, which operated the Alaska Railroad from 1943 to 1945.
Art Hobson photograph album; 1909-1911. Photographs of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway from a fireman who worked on the railroad.
Helen Stevens papers; 1897-1957. Papers and photographs of a woman who worked as a reporter for the Alaska Railroad.
Allison E. Stoars papers; 1937-1963. Allison E. Stoars was from Salem, Oregon. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1939 and served in the Corps of Engineers during World War II. There are photographs of soldiers of the 4th Infantry Regiment, at the Yakutat and Southern Railroad, including photographs of locomotives and cars.
Harold Strandberg papers; 1923-1985. Harold Strandberg was the Vice President and Secretary of Strandberg and Sons, Inc. a mining corporation, and served as the Anchorage Port Commissioner. Among the records are an application for withdrawal by the Alaskan Railroad, dated 1962, and Alaska Railroad Land leasing, also from 1962.
Benjamin B. Talley papers; 1925-2002. Benjamin Talley was an officer in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, receiving his commission in 1926. Talley kept daily logs, written during the period in which he was in charge of construction in Yakutat (October to December 1940) and while he was the Officer-in-Charge of Alaskan Construction (January 1941 to June 1943). His daily logs often discuss railroad construction and inspections.
Walter Todd diaries; 1915-1918. Walter Todd worked as a surveyor for the Alaska Engineering Commission's Alaska railroad project from 1915 to 1918, primarily at the Potter Creek area south through Portage Valley. He kept daily diaries, writing about the construction of the Alaska Railroad, socializing, and the weather.
Elmer Williams photographs; 1939-1956. Elmer Williams was a locomotive engineer with the Alaska Railroad from 1946 to 1951. The majority of the photographs are of Elmer Williams and his family; however there are photographs of railroad personnel, scenes along the Alaskan Railroad, train locomotives, and railway depots.