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Railroads

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1445
Abstract

Papers of the Saltair Beach Company and the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Company.

Dates: approximately 1891-1961

Lloyd Leo Smith audiocassette

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239251504]
Identifier: MSS 9298
Scope and Contents

Contents include a two-sided audiocassette labeled "Leo Smith, July 1979, Part II; Unknown Interviewee re Orem Line." One side is an interview of Leo Smith talking about his years as a worker with the Orem Railroad Company. The other side is an unknown interviewee, born in Provo, talking about his work as a station manager of the Orem Line. Dated July 19, 1979.

Dates: 1979 July 19

Specifications for rail-way superstr[u]cture on the Peoria and Warsaw Rail Road

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231044949]
Identifier: MSS 1014
Scope and Contents

Printed contract with handwritten additions and signatures giving specifications for the construction of a railroad in Illinois. The word "superstrcture" was misspelled on the title of the item.

Dates: 1839

State of Idaho et al. v. Oregon Short Line Railroad, et al.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324425]
Identifier: MSS SC 2521
Scope and Contents

Western American business and labor history (20th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.II, 2007).

Dates: 1985

Charles B. Stuart letters to Nathaniel B. Baker

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239244913]
Identifier: MSS 9103
Scope and Contents Contains two letters from Charles Stuart, railroad designer, to Nathaniel B. Baker, Adjutant General of the Iowa Militia. Both letters concern the building of railroads in Iowa that would connect with the transcontinental railroad, which was about to be built, beginning in Omaha, Nebraska. The first letter, dated January 15, 1860, is on “Office of the American Railroad Bureau” letterhead, and discusses the Lyons Railroad. The second letter, dated March 30, 1860, is also on “Office of the...
Dates: 1860

The Royal Gorge on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad

 Collection — Item 1: [Barcode: 31197235224802]
Identifier: MSS 8597
Scope and Contents

Materials include one framed black and white photograph of a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad train driving down the track in a gorge. Dated 1912.

Dates: 1912

Dennis L. Thomson research papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2139
Scope and Contents

Contains items relating to two of Dr. Thomson's research efforts: (1) his doctoral work on the watershed in the Lake Tahoe area, including adjudication of water rights between Nevada and California; (2) regulation of railroads (research for the Department of Transportation).

Dates: 1990

United States Postal Service records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232483450]
Identifier: MSS 2
Scope and Contents

The collection contains handwritten, typewritten, and printed postal schedules, dispatches, and employee records. The materials relate to the early mail service in the American West by rail. It includes information on railway post offices, postal employees, and railway policy covering 1869 to 1947.

Dates: 1869-1947

Utah Central Railroad Company receipt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322296]
Identifier: MSS SC 2347
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and prined receipt for four doors and on "Bunch of Sush." The item is dated 1 May 1886. On the reverse side of the receipt is a printed item with a list of eighteen articles relating the the conditions and rules that form part of a formal contract.

Dates: 1886

Utah Territory certificates of acknowledgement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343193]
Identifier: MSS 31
Abstract

The collection contains printed and handwritten certificates from 1891-1892. The materials are official items issued by the Territory of Utah and acknowledge the existence of the Reed Hotel Company and the Salt Lake and Wyoming Railroad Company.

Dates: 1891-1892