Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group Collection
Collection ID
SCRC 418
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Collecting Areas
Description
Collection Summary
Title
Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group Collection
Dates
1830-1984
Collection ID
SCRC 418
Creator(s)
Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group
Quantity
7.4 linear feet (13 boxes)
Repository
Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
Language
Materials in English.
Detailed Collection Information
Historical Note
The Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group was a special interest group specializing in the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Description of Collection
This collection includes railroad related materials collected by the Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group (PRR ERG). Items in the collection include timetables, books, magazines, articles, memorabilia, posters, blueprints, track layouts, right of way and track maps, and political and topographical maps of some areas. There are also a number of posters, prints and calendars. Series 6: Maps/Plans is organized by region, as defined by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1964: the Eastern Region, Central Region and Western Region.
Organization and Arrangement
The collection is arranged into 9 series as follows:
Series 1: Timetables
Series 2: Books (including miniature books and pamphlets)
Series 3: Magazines
Series 4: Articles
Series 5: Memorabilia
Series 6: Maps/plans
Series 7: Posters
Series 8: Atlases
Series 9: Photographs
Patron Information
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Temple University’s online library catalog: [URL]
Research Access
Collection is open for research.
Collections Stored Off-Site
This collection may be housed off-site at the Library Depository, and require up to two business days to retrieve. Please review the finding aid and be prepared to identify specific materials to be retrieved. Contact the Special Collections Research Center in advance of your visit, so that materials may be relocated to the reading room for research.
Publication and Copyright Information
The Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group Collection is on deposit with the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The donor has not assigned their rights to Temple University Libraries. Other creators’ intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to them or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Pennsylvania Railroad Eastern Region Group Records, SCRC 418, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Related Material
Pennsylvania Railroad Records, SCRC 416, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Placed on deposit by Michael Burshtin, President, PRR Eastern Region Group, in 1987.
Separated Material
Photographs and postcards have been removed to collection PC-76.
Processing Information
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in February 1998 by Matthew S. Hopper.
Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in July 2019 by Samuel Chun, student assistant, and Courtney Smerz, Collection Management Archivist.
Index Terms
The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in Temple University’s electronic catalog:
Corporate Names:
Pennsylvania Railroad
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
ConRail
Amtrak
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Long Island Rail Road
Subjects:
Railroad
Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)
William H. Gray, III, 30th Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Places:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Main Line (Pa.)
Long Island (N.Y.)
Material Types:
Administrative records. $$2 aat
Architectural drawings. $$2 gmgpc
Books. $$2 aat
Ephemera. $$2 aat
Maps. $$2 gmgpc
Minutes. $$2 aat
Newsletters. $$2 aat
Pamphlets. $$2 aat
Photographs. $$2 aat
Posters. $$2 aat
Publications. $$2 aat
Reports. $$2 aat
Technical manuals. |2 aat
Inventory
Series 1: Timetables, 1837-1982
1 1 Pennsylvania Railroad: Chesapeake Region: No. 10, and Philadelphia Region, No. 10 1960
1 2 Pennsylvania Railroad: Eastern Region: No. 4, No. 8, No. 8, No. 18 1952-1964
1 3 Pennsylvania Railroad: Eastern Region: No. 20, No. 21, No. 22 1965-1966
1 4 Pennsylvania Railroad: Eastern Region: No. 23 1967
1 5 Pennsylvania Railroad: Timetable Changes for daylight saving time 1964
1 6 Pennsylvania Railroad: Copy of Harrisburg – Columbia Schedule 1952
1 7 Pennsylvania Railroad: Copy of 1st Train Schedule of PRR, Columbia and Philadelphia Railway 1837
1 8 Pennsylvania Railroad: PRR/B&O, Columbus and Newark Division, No. 34 1953
1 9 Penn-Central: Northeastern Region, No. 6 1972
1 10 Norfolk and Southern: Steam Schedule 1982
1 11 SEPTA: 1969
1 12 SEPTA: 1971-1972
1 13 SEPTA: 1974
1 14 Miscellaneous
Series 2: Books, miniature books and pamphlets, 1830-1969
1 12 AP Block System for Single Track Steam Locomotives, General Railway Signal Co.
1 13 Adventures in Success, Student Manual
1 14 Agent’s Daily Track List, Newtown Station 1958-1959
1 15 Annual Report, PRR 1937
1 16 Annual Report, PRR 1939
1 17 Annual Report, PRR 1940
1 18 Annual Report, PRR 1941
1 19 Annual Report, PRR 1942
1 20 Annual Report: PRR 1960
1 21 Annual Report: PRR 1965
1 22 Association of American Railroads Research Activities 1963-1964
1 23 Brake and Train Air Signal Instructions, Penn Central EC 99 1969
1 24 CONRAIL – Ten Years Young
1 25 Delaware Valley Rails, John R. Pawson
1 26 Electric Interlocking Handbook, General Railway Signal Co. 1924
1 27 Electrical Operating Instruction, PRR, CT 290, 1966
1 28 Guide to Philadelphia
1 29 Guide to the East Broad Top Railroad and the Shade Gap Electric Railway, Rockhill Furnace, PA
1 30 Harbor Facilities (PRR): Port of Philadelphia, ND
1 31 Historic Bridges of Pennsylvania, William H. Shank
1 32 A History of the American Locomotive, Its Development 1830-1880
2 1 Information: Pennsylvania Railroad Leaflets 1913
2 2 Information: Pennsylvania Railroad Leaflets 1914
2 3 Information: Pennsylvania Railroad Leaflets 1915
2 4 Information: Pennsylvania Railroad Leaflets 1916
2 5 Information: Pennsylvania Railroad Leaflets 1917
2 6 Inside Railroading 1957
2 7 Inspection Trip by Special Train and Boat, New York to Philadelphia 1955
2 8 The John Bull: 150 Years a Locomotive, John J. White Jr.
2 9 List of Approved Paints and Coalings, Penn-Central 1972
2 10 Manual of Standard Practice for Construction and Maintenance of Track, Penn-Central 1968
2 11 Modern Cars and Locomotives 1926
2 12 Nineteenth Century Photography in Philadelphia, Kenneth Finbel
2 13 Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment March 1962
2 14 The Original 1879 Car Builder’s Dictionary 1879
2 15 Passenger Stations of Pennsylvania Railroad East of Pittsburgh, Erie and Buffalo 1912
2 16 The Philadelphia Commuter, Transportation Displays, Inc.
2 17 Philadelphia Facts: Industrial and Commercial 1944
2 18 Philadelphia In Motion, JW Bourse, Jr.
2 19 Pioneer III Truck, Budd Railway Division
2 20 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Delaware Railroad Co. 1877
2 21 Quiz of Railroads and Railroading
2 22 A Railroad President Looks at His Job, M.W. Clement
2 23 The Railroad Story
2 24 Railroads at Work 1958
2 25 Railroads of America 1964
2 26 Railroads Unlimited! America’s Modern Transportation Miracle
2 27 Railroads Unlimited! The Miracle in America’s Future
2 28 The Reading: Building a Modern Railroad 1958
2 29 Record of Transportation Lines Owned Leased and Operated by the PRR 1955
2 30 Record of Transportation Lines Owned Leased and Operated by the PRR 1958
2 31 Record of Transportation Lines Owned Leased and Operated by the PRR 1966
2 32 Report of W. Milnor Roberts, Esq. on the Survey of a Route to Avoid the Schuylkill Inclined Plane on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (Copy) 1848
2 33 A Review of Railway Operations in 1946 1946
3 1 Report of the Committee on Allocating the Construction Costs of the Penna Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Co. 1914
3 2 Report on Reading 1946
3 3 Rules for the Government of the Transportation Department, PRR 1910
3 4 Saved from the Torch, Friends of GGI-4800
3 5 Standard Maintenance of Way Plans 1967
3 6 Safety Rules for the Guidance of all Employees, Reading Co. 1971
3 7 Specifications for Construction and Maintenance of Track, PRR, CE 78 1965
3 8 Speech of JM Symes, President of the PRR to National Defense Transportation Association, Pittsburgh, PA 1954
3 9 Standard Code of the American Railway Association, Block Signal Rules 1900
3 10 Steam Locomotives of Yesteryear: Broad Street Station
3 11 Steam Locomotives of Yesteryear: A Picture Study of the K-4
3 12 Steam Locomotives of Yesteryear: Those Amazing Class “D” Locomotives
3 13 Steam Locomotives of Yesteryear: World Famous Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, PA
3 14 Steel Trails: The Epic of the Railroads, Martin D. Steevers 1933
3 15 A Study of Railway Transportation for Teachers, Vol. 1 & 2
3 16 Transportation in the Future 1942
3 17 The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860, George Rogers Taylor 1815-1860
3 18 Two Cent’s Worth
3 19 Union Classification Yard systems Route Interlocking: PRR Westward Conway Yard, Conway, PA, Union Switch Signal, ND
3 20 Union Switch and Signal Centralized Traffic Control
3 21 Wharves and Docks, Pennsylvania Railroad 1942
3 22 Who Gets the Railroad Dollar?, Dr. Jules Backman, 1947
3 23 Who Pays to Move America’s Freight?
Series 3: Magazines
3 24 American History Illustrated August 1974
3 25 Amtrak News March 15, 1977
3 26 Baldwin Locomotives February 1939, March 1941
3 27 Baldwin Locomotives, Third Quarter 1946
3 28 Cinders November 1984
3 29 CONRAIL Weekend November 4, 1977
3 30 Express Magazine May 1981
3 31 The Keystone June 1983
3 32 Life May 19, 1947
4 1 Long Island Railroader, Vols. 1-3 (OVERSIZED) 1956-1958
4 2 CONRAIL Maintenance Program and Track Chart, Eastern Region, Philadelphia Division (OVERSIZED) 1980
5 1 Locomotive Engineers Journal March 1959
5 2 Metropolis November 1981
5 3 Modern Railroads November 1956
5 4 Modern Railroads August 1983
5 5 National Geographic Magazine November 1936
5 6 New York Commercial May 8, 1923
5 7 Passenger Train Journal February 1980, August 1981, January 1984
5 8 Penn Central Post 1970-1976
5 9 The Pennsy January-February 1958
5 10 Pennsy Journal Spring 1981, Winter 1981
5 11 Railfan and Railroad January 1982
5 12 Railway Age October 10, 1955; May 7, 1962
5 13 Reading Railroad Magazine February 1960
5 14 Trains August 1943, July 1942, May 1975
5 15 Trains July 1982, August 1982
Series 4: Articles
5 16 Harry P. Albrecht (claims investigator for PRR) Articles 1968-1984
5 17 “CONRAIL freight train derails at Merril Road,” Pittsfield, MA August 2, 1984
5 18 “Electric Passenger Locomotives” Railway Age 1936
5 19 Raymond Loewy Articles: “He styles the streamliners” Trains and “Raymond Loewy, streamliner…dies” NY Times July, 1986
5 20 “Manhattan Transfer, NJ – 1910-1936” Locomotive Engineers. Penn Central, Div. 51
5 21 “Northeast Road’s Creditors can only get liquidation value of assets, court rules,” Wall Street Journal
5 22 “Pamphlet descriptive of corporations which the PRR and its subsidiary and affiliated companies are interested through ownership of securities, leases or otherwise” Office of the Controller Philadelphia 1951
5 23 “Philadelphia commuters ride new MU’s” Modern Railroads May 1963
5 24 “A Pictorial review of progress on the PRR” 1953
5 25 “‘Plight of the Railroads’ Interview” Interview with Walter S. Franklin, President of PRR 1950
5 26 “Railroad Buffs hope to save old ‘Lemo’ [Lemoyne switch tower] Sunday Patriot News, Harrisburg, PA January 8, 1984
5 27 “Restoration of the Class GG-1 Electric Locomotive into its former Pennsylvania Railroad Paint Schemes” Michael L. Burshtin 1982
5 28 “The State of the Industry” by Tom Shedd, Modern Railroads December 1976
5 29 “Wasted Dollars and Lost Opportunities: A Chronicle of Mismanagement” by Dr. EP Hamilton and Andrew C. Selden, Esq. 1983
5 30 “Where are the Penn Station Eagles?” Railroad Magazine May 1972
5 31 “Wilmington Maintenance Facility” 1979
5 32 “Working on the Railroad” by William W. Finley
Series 5: Memorabilia
5 33 Pennsylvania Railroad Memorabilia “Railroadiana” Collection from binder belonging to William J. Lawton, Collector of Railroadiana
5 34 Pennsylvania Railroad Memorabilia “Railroadiana” Collection from binder belonging to William J. Lawton, Collector of Railroadiana
5 35 Pennsylvania Railroad Memorabilia “Railroadiana” Collection from binder belonging to William J. Lawton, Collector of Railroadiana
5 36 Miscellaneous General Orders 1954-1961
5 37 Blank Material order and charge-out form
5 38 Passenger Reservation Records
5 39 Blank Employee Vacation Report Cards
5 40 Blank Clearance Cards
5 41 Book Cover: “PRR Passenger Stations East of Pittsburgh, Erie and Buffalo,” Belonging to JHW McQuinton, Signed and dated 1927
5 42 Bituminous Coal Tariff Budgets 1936-1939
5 43 Guide: Agent, Chestnut Hill, PA, No. 122 1958
5 44 Retirement and Roll of Honor Certification for Emile Mehrer 1963
5 45 Work Orders: Bryn Mawr, PA 1969
5 46 Work Orders: Burnham, PA 1971
5 47 Work Orders: Columbia, PA 1963
5 48 Work Orders: Columbia, PA 1965
5 49 Work Orders: Harrisburg, PA 1966
5 50 Work Orders: Harrisburg to Royalton, PA 1963
5 51 Work Orders: Haverford, PA 1974
5 52 Work Orders: Johnstown, PA 1968
5 53 Work Orders: Kinzer, PA 1965
5 54 Work Orders: Lancaster, PA 1968
5 55 Work Orders: McClure: PA 1969
5 56 Work Orders: New Holland, PA 1969
5 57 Work Orders: North Kearny, NJ 1975
5 58 Work Orders: Rohrerstown, PA 1968
5 59 Work Orders: Shocke, PA 1968
5 60 Information for Members of Philadelphia Chapter, PRR Technical and Historical Society
5 61 Miscellaneous Per Diem Receipts
5 62 Christmas Poem, PRR Theme
5 63 50th Anniversary of NY-Philadelphia Electric Train – Stamps and Envelopes
5 64 AMTRAK: Northeast Corridor, Bulletin Orders (1983-1984)
5 65 AMTRAK: Amtrack and Septa Bulletins with Maps
6 1 CONRAIL: Valuation Maps, Etc. – Instruction 1974
6 2 CONRAIL: Bulletin Orders 1984
6 3 Penn Central: Eastern Region, General Notices 1961-1973
6 4 National Railroad Historical Society Program: 50th Anniversary Convention, Lancaster, PA August 24, 1985
6 5 Souvenir Envelopes and Patch: 50th Anniversary Convention, Lancaster, PA
6 6 Dutch Country Rails, 50th Anniversary, Lancaster, PA
6 7 Pre-Convention Trip to Scranton, PA and Steamtown, USA 1985
6 8 Denver Union Station, Hundredth Anniversary, Souvenir Card 1881-1981
6 9 Souvenir Program for Colorado Rails 1982
6 10 Pennsylvania Steel Company – Receipts 1890s
6 11 Abandonments
6 12 Philadelphia-Reading Railroad – Invoice
6 13 150th Anniversary of John Bull Locomotive, Smithsonian Institution September 15, 1981
6 14 Miscellaneous Letters
6 15 Miscellaneous
Series 6: Maps and Plans
6 16 Key to regions and map finder
6 17 Atglen and Susquehanna Branch, Low Grade Freight Line, Parkesburg to Wago Jct. 1927
6 18 Baldwin Locomotive Works
6 19 Baltimore Division, York Branch, Track Map (Negative)
6 20 Broad and Lehigh
6 21 Broad Street Station, Fourth and Seventh Office Floor Blueprints and Proposed Remodeling
6 22 Budd Co., Truck Arrangement Hand Brake
6 23 Budd Co., Bolster Assembly Truck 1960
6 24 Budd Co., Electric Multiple Unit Commuter Railroad Car (Mus) 1961
6 25 Cape May, NJ to Lewes, DE – Ferry
6 26 Carmel and Northern Railway, Evansville Mountain 1915
6 27 Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Station Map, tracks and structures, Cleveland, Cincinnati
6 28 CONRAIL – Kankakee Industrial Sites
6 29 CRANT’s Official Indexed Street Map of Pittsburgh
6 30 Delaware Extension, Atlantic, Penrose, Girard Point and Greenwich Yards
6 31 Improvements for Suburban Station
6 32 Long Island Railroad Company, Property in Queens
6 33 Maps of Divisions: Overlay
6 34 Maps of Divisions: Negatives
6 35 Maps of Divisions: Paper Copies
6 36 Market and 4th Street
6 37 Northern Central Rail Co., Track Map, York, PA
6 38 North Philadelphia Railroad Property
6 39 Penn Central Rail Lines 1972
6 40 Pennsylvania Railroad System
6 41 PRR Railroads and Stations in the vicinity of NYC
6 42 PRR Track Chart 1964
6 43 PRR Right of Way and Track Map, McCay Run Branch
6 44 Pennsylvania Road Map
6 45 Pennsylvania Turnpike Extension, Middlesex to King of Prussia
6 46 Philadelphia Columbia Railroad
6 47 Philadelphia Columbia Railroad
6 48 Pittsburgh, PA – Roads and Walks (negative)
6 49 Pittsburgh, PA – Sheet 9, No. 3 1962
6 50 Plan for the Abolishment of Grade Crossings in South Phila. 1922
6 51 Prince George’s County, Showing Topography and Election Districts 1946
6 52 Proposed railroads – Southwest Pennsylvania
6 53 Steam Railroad Map of Pennsylvania
6 54 Suburban Station
6 55 Trail Van Trains – Eastbound Service St. Louis, Chicago to Boston, Phila & NYC
6 56 Union Railway, Station Map – Tracks and Structures, Indianapolis, In 1927
6 57 United New Jersey Railroad easement to the State of New Jersey (New York Zone) 1947-1948
6 58 West Philadelphia Railroad
7 1 AMTRACK: Washington to NYC 1977
7 2 Broad and Lehigh Station
7 3 Chicago Union Station, Track level plan of head-house and concourse 1952
7 4 Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, Station map track and structures 1916
7 5 Darby Creek or Low Grade Lines 1944
7 6 Delaware River Wharves and Pierse
7 7 Long Island Railroad: Sunnyside Yard and Vicinity 1945
7 8 Main Line Map 1970
7 9 Morrisville yard, Fan track and retarder layout, Penn-Central
7 10 New York Bay Railroad 1918
7 11 New York Station: Exit concourse plan 1962
7 12 New York Station: Lease Plan, slab level
7 13 The OMNIA Building, Penn City, Philadelphia, PA – A study for the PRR
7 14 Penn-Central System Rail Lines 1975
7 15 Pennsylvania System, Philadelphia Terminal Division 1919
7 16 PRR New Passenger Terminals
7 17 PRR Valuation District No. 2 and No. 3
7 18 Pennsylvania Turnpike – Proposed Western Expansion RR Bridge
7 19 Philadelphia Area Railroad System
8 1 Philadelphia City Planning Company, Plan for Penn Center 1952
8 2 Port Road, Columbia, Susquehanna and A & S Branch 1975
8 3 Proposed Schuylkill Expressway between Spring Garden St. and 30th Street station
8 4 Public Transportation Lines of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1968
8 5 Reading Co.: Terminal to Park Jct.
8 6 Reading Co.: Rail Lines 1948
8 7 Spring Garden to Arch
8 8 Steubenville Extension, Pittsburgh Division
8 9 32nd Street Office Building PRR 1960
10 Roll 1 1-6: Reference Maps: Pennsylvania Railroad, region map 1964
10 Roll 1 7-12: Pennsylvania Railroad: Division Map (showing Division headquarters) 1964
10 Roll 2 1: USA: Political
10 Roll 2 2: USA: Railroad
10 Roll 2 3-7: Pennsylvania Railroad and Affiliates: Color-coded Full Track Maps [4 various] 1944-1960
10 Roll 2 8-9: Area Engineers Territories [2 copies] 1958-1963
10 Roll 2 10: Full Track Map 1962
10 Roll 2 11: Full Track Map 1963
10 Roll 2 12: Full Track Map 1964
10 Roll 2 13: Full Track Map [small] 1964
10 Roll 2 14: Regional Headquarters 1964
10 Roll 2 15: Full Track Map [extra-large] 1964
10 Roll 2 16: Color-coded Project and Track Map 1966
10 Roll 2 17-18: Penn-Central Railroad and Affiliates: Full Track Maps [2 copies] 1968
10 Roll 2 19-24: Penn-Central Railroad and Affiliates: Full Track Maps [6 copies] 1968-1974
10 Roll 2 25: Penn-Central Railroad and Affiliates: Full Track Map 1972
10 Roll 2 26-37: CONRAIL: Full System Map 1984
10 Roll 3 1: General Material: Map of Eastern Region (not to scale) 1964
10 Roll 3 2: General Material: Penn-Central – Eastern Region Operating Facilities 1968
10 Roll 3 3: General Material: Amtrack/CONRAIL – Switching Map – Philadelphia to DC (Landover to Potomac Yard) 1970
10 Roll 4 1: New York: Trenton to NY City – Northeast Corridor (1955)
10 Roll 4 2: New York Central Railroad System 1951
10 Roll 4 3: NY Penn Station – Track Map 1943
10 Roll 4 4: NY Port Authority – District Transportation Map 1957
10 Roll 4 5: NY Port Authority – NY Harbor Terminals
10 Roll 4 6: NY Subway Terminals on Long Island in Relation to Long Island Railroad 1946
10 Roll 4 7: Long Island Railroad System 1926
10 Roll 4 8: Long Island showing Long Island Railroad 1935
10 Roll 4 9: Long Island showing Long Island Railroad 1947
10 Roll 4 10: Portland, NY - Bridge over PRR tracks, blue-print 1908
10 Roll 5 1: New Jersey: United New Jersey Railroad - NY/NJ Divisions Track Map 1918
10 Roll 5 2: Hoboken, NJ - Aerial Photo
10 Roll 5 3: Jersey City Terminal 1918
10 Roll 5 4: Jersey City Terminal 1918
10 Roll 5 5: New Brunswick and Highland Park, NJ City Maps
10 Roll 5 6: Woodbridge, NJ - Perth Amboy Jct. 1921
10 Roll 5 7: State Map - USGS 1915
10 Roll 5 8: Linden, NJ - City Map, partial
10 Roll 5 9: Metuchen, NJ - Zoning Map 1952
10 Roll 5 10: Elizabeth and Jersey City, showing bay
10 Roll 5 11: Newark, Jersey City, and Northern NJ Railroads and Industries - CONRAIL Map 1981
10 Roll 6 1: Philadelphia Division: Air View, Negative, Philadelphia Dept. of Real Estate 1946
10 Roll 6 2: Art Museum District, Aerial Photo
10 Roll 6 3: 40th Ward
10 Roll 6 4: Gray's Ferry Engine House, Blue Print 1890
10 Roll 6 5: South Philadelphia Track Elevation Inventory of Railroad Facilities, showing Delaware and Washington Aves. 1914
10 Roll 6 6: Valuation District, corporations, valuation section and index of right of way and track maps 1918
10 Roll 6 7: Region Operation Facilities
10 Roll 6 8-9: Terminal Division Track Map [2 copies] 1978
10 Roll 6 10: Route of Delaware Expressway from Bristol to Walt Whitman Bridge - Philadelphia City Planning Commission proposed revised line 1958/1963
10 Roll 6 11: Wards showing population, based on census 1910
10 Roll 6 12: West-side, 30th Street Station and Schuylkill River, Aerial Photo (DVRPC 75-A32-B34)
10 Roll 7 1: Plan of Schuylkill River Passenger Railway from Penna Ave. near Fairmount Basin to Gray's Ferry Road and Return 1869
10 Roll 7 2: Swanson Street Line, Track Map, B&O RR 1955-1968
10 Roll 7 3: Delaware River Piers and Railroad lines from Navy Yard to Tacony
10 Roll 7 4-11: Delaware River Piers, Track Layout [8 maps]
10 Roll 7 12: 40th Ward and Hog Island Branch 1928
10 Roll 7 13: Philadelphia Improvements: Track plan and operating stages 1930
10 Roll 7 14: Astroview 1970
10 Roll 7 15: Girard Point Branch and 30th Street Station 1955
10 Roll 7 16: South Philadelphia, Aerial Photo, showing Delaware Ave., Navy Yard and League Island Park 1959
11 Roll 8 1: Pennsylvania: Mount Joy, PA (Lancaster Co.) 1858
11 Roll 8 2: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia to Trenton (Brill to Millham) Northeast Corridor, Switching Map 1974
11 Roll 8 3: Pennsylvania: Delaware River District - Wilmington to Trenton, Industrial Map 1955
11 Roll 8 4: Pennsylvania: Proposed Chester and Philadelphia Branch, South Philadelphia to Claymont
11 Roll 8 5: New Jersey: Central and Metropolitan NJ 1945
11 Roll 8 6: New Jersey: Pleasantville, NJ (Atlantic Co.)
11 Roll 8 7: New Jersey: Ocean County, NJ - Roads 1934
11 Roll 8 8: New Jersey: Ocean County, NJ - Roads 1947
11 Roll 8 9: New Jersey: Camden, NJ - Amboy Branch, Proposed Rearrangement of Tracks at Pavonia Yard 1962
11 Roll 9 1: Chesapeake Division: Northern Central Branch, Parkton, MD to York, PA 1954
11 Roll 9 2: Chesapeake Division: Prince George's County, MD - Topography and Election Districts - USGS 1946
11 Roll 9 3: Chesapeake Division: Prince George's County, MD - Highway Planning Survey 1937
11 Roll 9 4: Chesapeake Division: Norfolk, VA and Vicinity 1924
11 Roll 9 5: Chesapeake Division: Newark, DE and Area 1951
11 Roll 9 6: Harrisburg Division: Lebanon, PA and suburbs
11 Roll 9 7: Harrisburg Division: Lancaster, PA - city map
11 Roll 10 1: General Material: Penn-Central: System Damage Estimate 1972
11 Roll 10 2: General Material: Penn-Central: Viability Study 1972
11 Roll 10 3: General Material: Wilkes-Barre, PA to Rochester, NY - Track Map
11 Roll 10 4: General Material: Pennsylvania Steam Railroad Map 1945
11 Roll 10 5: General Material: Central Region - Negatie
11 Roll 10 6: General Material: Pennsylvania County Map
11 Roll 10 7: General Material: Pennsylvania Map Showing Streams Polluted by Coal Mine Drainage 1912
11 Roll 10 8: Allegheny Division: Altoona, PA - Right of Way and Track Map [6 maps]
11 Roll 10 9: Allegheny Division: Altoona, PA - Right of Way and Track Map
11 Roll 10 10: Allegheny Division: Saxton, PA (Bedford Co.) - Huntington and Broad Top Mt., Blue-print
11 Roll 10 11: Pittsburgh, Division: Pittsburgh, PA - Street Map 1944
11 Roll 10 12: Pittsburgh, Division: Pittsburgh, PA - USGS Topographical
11 Roll 10 13: Pittsburgh Division: Pittsburgh, PA - Masonry Plans for Pennsylvania, Ave. Bridge, Blue-print 1875
11 Roll 10 14-26: Pittsburgh Division: Pittsburgh, PA - Pennsylvania Ave. Bridge Original Plans and Reconstruction Plans [12 sheets] 1875/1949
11 Roll 10 27: Pittsburgh Division: Ohio, County, WV - Highway Map
11 Roll 10 28: Pittsburgh Division: Freeport, PA (Westmoreland Co.) - Freeport Bridge, Blue-print
11 Roll 10 29: Pittsburgh Division: Vandergrift, PA (Westmoreland Co.) - Kiskimentas River Bridge, Blue-print 1899
11 Roll 10 30: Lake Division: Eastern Ohio Railroad System
11 Roll 10 31: Northern Division: Buffalo, NY - City Map [2 sheets] 1925
11 Roll 10 32: Northern Division: CONRAIL - Northeast Region, Buffalo Division 1976
11 Roll 11 1: General Material: Western Region - Plan No. 14288 1964
11 Roll 11 2: Fort Wayne Division: Fort Wayne Division Map
11 Roll 11 3: Fort Wayne Division: Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway - Petoskey, MI 1927
11 Roll 11 4: Southwest Division: Northwest and Southwest Regions
11 Roll 11 5: Southwest Division: Louisville, KY - Industrial and Interchange Tracks 1959-1969
11 Roll 11 6: Chicago Division: Chicago Division Map
11 Roll 11 7: Chicago Division: East Chicago, IN - City Map 1943
11 Roll 11 8: Chicago Division: Chicago, IL - Plan for Operation and Maintenance of Facilities between Alton Junction and Van Buren Street 1938-1939
11 Roll 11 9: Chicago Division: Chicago, IL - Detail of Truss for Jackson Street Viaduct 1887
11 Roll 12 1-12: Miscellaneous Maps and Blueprints: Snowshow Branch - Title and Cost Maps 1918
11 Roll 13 1: American Freedom Train, Class T-1, Engine No. 2100-2130, Blue-print 1945
11 Roll 13 2: Plan of Bridge Crossing Cheesequake Creek Near Morgan Station, NY and LBBR, Blue-print 1885
11 Roll 13 3: Plan to Accompany LV
11 Roll 13 4-7: Miscellaneous Electrical Diagrams [4 sheets]
11 Roll 13 8: Unknown Electrical Diagram
12 Roll 14 X: Damaged, aged, and deteriorating blueprints - miscellaneous
Series 8: Posters and prints
8 1 “A Brief History of the Long Island Railroad: Then and Now” 1984
8 2 “Highball…” Advertisement 1946
8 3 Gerald McDonald Prints, signed 1984
8 4 New York Central “End of the Run, Weehawken”
8 5 Penn Central “Race Train to Bowie” 1969
8 6 Penn Central “Pony Express to Monmouth Park”
8 7 Pennsylvania Railroad “NYC to Philadelphia to Washington” 1968
8 8 Railroad Ads. (Miscellaneous magazines) 1940s
8 9 “Westbound Limited” PRR
12 Roll 15 1: Pennsylvania Railroad "One-Hundred Years, 1846-1946," Frank Reilly 1946
12 Roll 15 2: Pennsylvania Railroad Calendar, Griff Teller 1983
12 Roll 15 3: Malcom "Flash" Gordon: "GG-1, Penn-Central #4886" 1972
12 Roll 15 4: Malcom "Flash" Gordon: "Looking Toward the West End of Sunnyside Yard" 1976
12 Roll 15 5: Malcom "Flash Gordon": "Penn-Central Powelton Yard" 1975
12 Roll 15 6: Gil Reid, "Engine in Snow" 1976
12 Roll 15 7-8: Griff Teller, 2 posters
12 Roll 15 9: Charles Graham, "The Great Bridge - Fireworks and Illumination from the Brooklyn Side"
12 Roll 15 10: "Engine #78" (acetate poster)
12 Roll 15 11: "Trusses: A Study by the Historic American Engineering Record" 1976
12 Roll 15 12: "The last run of the GG-1, Saturday Oct. 29, 1983" 1983
12 Roll 15 13: "A Brief History of the Long Island Rail Road, Then and Now" 1980
12 Roll 15 14: AMTRACK Calendar 1983
12 Roll 15 15: Pennsylvania Railroad 1970 Calendar (with 12 b/w photos) 1970
12 Roll 15 16: "Great Event: On the Occasion of the John Bull's 150th Anniversary" 1981
12 Roll 15 17: "Horseshoe Curve, On the Occasion of the John Bull's 150th Anniversary" 1981
12 Roll 15 18: Biederman, "Pennsylvania 4800"
12 Roll 15 19: Wilmington, Delaware Train Station 1984
12 Roll 15 20: General Motors Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad Engine No. 5801
Series 9: Atlases
9 1 Railroad Atlas
9 2 White & Kemble’s Atlas and Digest of Railroad Mortgages, PRR 1903
Series 10: Photographs
13 John Bull reprints for MCP
13 PRR Postcards
13 GG-1 Locomotive 50th Anniversary 1984
13 PRR Postcards and Christmas card
13 Mt. Washington Cog Railway
13 Photograph of train and railway (3 copies)
13 “Meet Mrs. Casey Jones”
13 Landscape illustrations, map, photo negatives
13 Illustration from Scribner’s Monthly (photo recreation) 1888
13 Norfolk and Western Locomotive (photo recreation)
13 5706 to Harrisburg
13 Broad Street Station Anniversary and cake
13 Holiday photo for the Penn 4877
13 Amtrak’s 10th Anniversary Celebration 1981
13 Negatives #31-37
13 PRR Bridge in Iselin, scrapbook pages, newspaper clippings 1949-1950
13 Items removed from collection, by Mane Prewett March 11, 1993
13 Guidebook, order form, misc. PRR notes
13 Storm Damage July 19, 1951
13 Eastward View over Philadelphia, Hover Photo
13 Railway Tracks
13 People
13 W. of South Fork, November 1889
13 Conemaugh Viaduct
13 Railway Bridge Construction (1)
13 Railway Bridge Construction (2)
13 Vintage photos of railway construction
13 Bennington Curve
13 Horses
13 Conemaugh Furnace
13 SX Tower from EP Alexander’s “On the Main Line”
13 Kittening Point Station
13 Centennial Photographic Co: International Exhibit 1876
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