Kohler, Walter, Railroads and Railroading Collection

Collection Type
Mixed
ID

SC20630

Quantity

92 Boxes (48 cubic feet)

Access

Collection is open for research

Acquisition

Gift of Mary Blanken Kohler, ca. 1980

Processed By

Fred Bassett, Senior Librarian, Manuscripts and Special Collections, April 2003.

Scope and Contents Note:

The Walter Kohler Railroads and Railroading Collection is organized into two series:

  1. timetables and railroad company publications;
  2. scrapbooks on railroads and railroading.

The timetables and railroad company publications are arranged alphabetically by name of railroad line or company, as it existed circa 1930s-1950s primarily in the United States and Canada. Public timetables contained information on the schedule of trains, station stops, and the type of equipment and services available on a particular train; they were distributed to travelers and ticket agents. Other railroad company literature includes brochures related to travel and tourism, and magazines distributed to employees and stockholders. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, articles from periodicals, and printed materials arranged mostly by topic. Some of the topics are locomotive and engines, railroad cars, and stations.

Series I: Public Timetables and Railroad Company Publications

Box

Folder(s)

Contents

1

1-2

Alaska RR

 

3

Ann Arbor RR

 

4-10

Atcheson, Topeka, & Santa Fe RR

 

11

Atlanta & Birmingham RR

 

12

Atlanta & West Point RR

 

13

Atlantic City & Shore RR

 

14-16

Atlantic Coast Line RR

2

1-3

Atlantic Coast Line RR (cont.)

 

4

Baltimore & Eastern RR

 

5-15

Baltimore & Ohio RR

3

1

Bangor & Aroostock RR

 

2

Bessemer & Lake Erie RR

 

3-4

Boston & Albany RR (New York Central System)

 

5-6

Boston & Maine RR

 

7

Buffalo & Lake Erie RR

 

8

Buffalo, Rochester, & Pittsburgh RR (B&O System)

 

9

Catskill Mountain RR

 

10

Central of Georgia RR

 

11-17

Central of New Jersey RR

4

1

Central Vermont RR

 

2-4

Chesapeake & Ohio RR

 

5

Chicago & Alton RR (GM&O)

 

6

Chicago, Aurora, & Elgin RR

 

7-17

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR  (Burlington Route)

5

1

Chicago & Eastern Illinois RR

 

2

Chicago Great Western RR

 

3

Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Louisville RR (MONON)

 

5-9

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR (Milwaukee Road)

 

10

Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee RR (North Shore Line)

 

11-16

Chicago & Northwestern RR

6

1-3

Chicago & Northwestern RR (cont.)

 

4-7

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR  (Rock Island)

 

8

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis RR (Big Four)

 

9

Colorado & Southern RR (Burlington)

 

10-11

Delaware & Hudson RR

 

12-17

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR

7

1-3

Denver, Rio Grande, & Western RR

 

4

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic RR
Duluth, Missabe & Northern RR

 

5-11

Erie RR

8

1

Georgia RR
Georgia & Florida RR

 

2-4

Great Northern RR

 

5-6

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RR

 

7

Hocking Valley RR

 

8-9

Illinois Central RR

 

10

Illinois Terminal RR

 

11

International Railway

 

12

Jamestown, Westfield & Northwestern RR

 

13

Kansas City Southern RR

 

14-15

Lehigh Valley RR

 

16-10

Long Island RR

9

1

Los Angeles Railway

 

2

Louisiana & Arkansas RR

 

3-5

Louisville & Nashville RR

 

6

Maine Central RR

 

7

Manitou & Pikes Peak RR

 

8

Michigan Central RR

 

9

Minneapolis & St. Louis RR

 

10

Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RR (Soo Line)

 

11

Missouri, Kansas & Texas RR (KATY)

 

12

Missouri Pacific RR

 

13

Mobile & Ohio RR

 

14

Mount Washington Cog Railway

 

15

Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis RR (Dixie Line)

 

16

New York & New Jersey RR (Erie)

 

17-21

New York Central RR

10

1-12

New York Central RR (cont.)

11

1-5

New York Central RR (cont.)

 

6

New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate)

 

7

New York & Greenwood Lake Railway (Erie RR)

 

8

New York & Long Branch RR

 

9-14

New York, New Haven & Hartford RR

12

1-3

New York, Ontario & Western RR

 

4

New York, Susquehanna & Western RR

 

5

Niagara Gorge RR

 

6

Norfolk & Southern RR

 

7

Norfolk & Western RR

 

8-10

Northern Pacific RR

 

11

Northern Railroad of New Jersey

 

12

Northwestern Pacific RR

 

13-18

Pennsylvania RR

13

1-13

Pennsylvania RR (cont.)

14

1-15

Pennsylvania RR (cont.)

15

1-2

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore RR

 

3

Pere Marquette RR

 

4

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR

 

5

Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern RR

 

6-11

Reading RR

 

12

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR

 

13

Rutland RR

 

14

Saint Louis & San  Francisco RR (FRISCO)

16

1

Saint Louis & Southwestern RR

 

2

Seaboard RR

 

3-16

Southern Pacific RR

17

1-2

Southern Railway

 

3

Spokane International Railway

 

4

Spokane, Portland & Seattle RR

 

5

Staten Island Rapid Transit

 

6

Texas & Pacific RR

 

7-14

Union Pacific RR

 

15

Virginian Railway

 

16

Wabash RR

18

1-3

Western Pacific RR

 

4

Western Railway of Alabama

 

5-9

West Shore RR (New York Central)

 

10

Wheeling & Lake Erie RR

 

11

Wichita Valley RR (Burlington)

19

1-3

Canadian National RR

 

4-7

Canadian Pacific RR

 

8

Dominion Atlantic RR

 

9

Newfoundland Railway

 

10

Ottawa Electric Railway

 

11

Quebec Central RR

 

12

Pacific Great Eastern RR

 

13

Temiskaming & Northern Ontario RR

 

14

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo RR

 

15

White Pass & Yukon RR

20

 

Railroad magazines (various issues)
a.      Santa Fe Magazine
b.     B and O Magazine

21

 

Railroad magazines (cont.)
a.      Erie
b.     The Lackawanna

22

 

Railroad magazines (cont.)
a.      New York Central Headlight
b.     Western Pacific Mileposts

23

1-9

Pullman Company

24

1

Directory of Named Passenger Trains Operated on Railroads in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, September, 1940.

 

2

Clippings: Railroads in United States history

 

3

Brochures: Railroads during World War II

 

4

Brochures: Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933

 

5

Brochures: New York World's Fair, 1939

 

6

The Royal Tour of Canada and the United States, 1939 (King of England)

 

7

Dinning Car Souvenir Menus

 

8

Model Railroad Trade Catalogs

 

9

Newspaper clippings: Streamlined trains

 

10

Booklet: Quiz on Railroads and Railroading

 

11

Brochures: Railroad museums

 

12

Clippings: Famous trains

 

13

Magazines and booklets about railroads

 

14

Railroad Journal, October-December 1943

25

 

Railroad Timetables and Travel Brochures

 

1

West Indies and South America

 

2

Bahamas, Barbados and Bermuda

 

3

Cuba

 

4

Dominican Republic

 

5

Jamaica

 

6

Curacao, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Virgin Islands

 

7-8

Mexico

 

9

Central America: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama

 

10

South America: Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru

 

11

Europe

 

12-14

Great Britain

 

14

British Railways

26

1-3

London, Midland & Scottish Railway

 

4

London & Northeastern Railway

 

5

Southern Railway of England

 

6

Wales

 

7

Scotland

 

8

Ireland

 

9

Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland

 

10

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

 

11-13

France

27

1-6

France (cont.)

 

7-8

Germany

 

9

Greece

 

10

Italy

 

11

Spain

 

12

Switzerland

 

13

Turkey

 

14

Egypt

 

15

Australia

28

1-3

Africa

 

4-5

South Africa

 

6-7

Japan

 

8

China: Manchurian Railway

 

9

India

 

10

Ceylon

 

11

Southeast Asia

 

12

Netherlands Indies

29

1-7

Scrapbook: New York State

30

1-5

Scrapbook: New York City

31

 

Scrapbooks: Travel Brochures

 

1

Alabama

 

2

Arizona

 

3-6

California

 

7

Colorado

 

8

Connecticut

 

9

Florida

 

10

Georgia

 

11

Hawaii

 

12

Idaho

32

 

Scrapbooks: Travel Brochures

 

1

Illinois

 

2

Indiana

 

3

Kansas

 

4

Kentucky

 

5

Louisiana

 

6

Maine

 

7

Maryland

 

8

Massachusetts

 

9

Michigan

 

10

Minnesota

 

11

Mississippi

 

12

Missouri

33

 

Scrapbooks: Travel Brochures

 

1

Montana

 

2

Nevada

 

3

New Hampshire

 

4

New Jersey

 

5

New Mexico

 

6

North Carolina

 

7

North Dakota

 

8

Ohio

 

9

Oklahoma

 

10

Oregon

 

11

Pennsylvania

 

12

Rhode Island

 

13

South Carolina

 

14

South Dakota

 

15

Tennessee

 

16

Texas

34

 

Scrapbooks: Travel Brochures

 

1

Utah

 

2-3

Virginia

 

4

Washington

 

5

West Virginia

 

6

Wisconsin

 

7

Wyoming

 

8

Washington, D.C.

 

9

United States

  

Nationwide Map Service - Highway Map and Guide Series (maps, ca. 1930s for each state)

 

10

Alabama-Georgia

 

11

Idaho-Louisiana

 

12

Maine-Montana

 

13

Nebraska-Oklahoma

 

14

Pennsylvania-Utah

 

15

Vermont-Wyoming

35

 

Miscellany

Series II: Railroads and Railroading Scrapbooks

Box-

Volume

Contents

36

1

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Alaska RR
b.     Arcade & Attica RR
c.      Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe RR
d.     Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast RR
e.      Atlanta & West Point RR
f.       Atlantic City RR

37

2

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Atlantic Coast Line
b.     Baltimore & Annapolis RR
c.      Baltimore & Eastern RR
d.     Baltimore & Ohio RR

38

3

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Bangor & Aroostook RR
b.     Bessemer & Lake Erie RR
c.      Big Four Route
d.     Boston & Albany RR
e.      Boston & Maine  RR
f.       Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh RR

39

4

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Central of Georgia RR
b.     Central Railroad of New Jersey (New Jersey Central)
c.      Central Vermont RR
d.     Chesapeake & Ohio RR
e.      Chicago & Alton RR

40

5

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR
b.     Chicago & Eastern Illinois RR
c.      Chicago Great Western RR
d.     Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Louisville RR 
e.      Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR (Milwaukee Road)
f.       Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee RR (North Shore Line)

41

6

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Chicago & Northwestern RR
b.     Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR (Rock Island)

42

7

Railroad Lines—United States
a.      Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis RR (Big Four)
b.     Colorado & Southern RR
c.      Delaware & Hudson RR

 

8

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR
b.     Denver, Rio Grande & Western RR
c.      Duluth, Mesabi & Northern RR
d.     Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic RR

43

9

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Erie RR

44

10

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Florida East Coast RR
b.     Forth Worth & Denver RR
c.      Georgia RR
d.     Florida & Georgia RR
e.      Great Northern RR
f.       Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RR
g.      Illinois Central RR

45

11

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Jamestown, Westfield & Northwestern RR
b.     Kansas City Southern RR
c.      Lehigh Valley RR
d.     Long Island RR
e.      Louisiana & Arkansas RR 
f.       Louisville & Nashville RR

46

12

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Maine Central
b.     Manitou & Pikes Peak RR
c.      Michigan Central RR
d.     Minneapolis & St. Louis RR
e.      Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RR (Soo Line)
f.       Missouri, Kansas & Texas (KATY)
g.      Missouri Pacific RR
h.      Mobile & Ohio RR
i.       Mount Washington Cog Railway
j.       Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis RR
k.      New Jersey & New York RR

47

13

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      New York Central & Hudson River RR

48

14

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      New York Central (cont.)

49

15

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR (Nickel Plate)
b.     New York & Greenwood Lake RR
c.      New Jersey Central RR
d.     New York, New Haven & Hartford RR (New Haven)

50

16

Railroad Lines: United States
a. New York, Ontario & Western RR
b. New York, Susquehanna & Western RR
c. Niagara Gorge Railway
d. Norfolk & Western RR
e. Northern Pacific RR
f. Northern Railroad of New Jersey
g. Pacific Electric RR

51

17

Railroad Lines: United States
a. Pennsylvania RR

52

18

Railroad Lines: United States
a. Pennsylvania RR (cont.)

53

19

Railroad Lines: United States
a. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore RR
b. Pere Marquette RR
c. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR
d. Reading RR
e. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR
f. Rio Grande Southern
g. Rochester & Syracuse RR
h. Rutland RR
i. Sacramento Northern RR
j. Saint Louis & San Francisco RR (FRISCO)
k. Saint Louis Southwestern RR (Cotton Belt Route)
l. Seaboard RR

54

20

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Southern Pacific RR
b.     Southern Railway
c.      Spokane International RR
d.     Spokane, Portland & Seattle RR
e.      Staten Island Rapid Transit
f.       Texas & Pacific RR
g.      Tidewater Southern RR
h.      Ulster & Delaware RR
i.       Union Pacific RR
j.       Virginian Railway

55

21

Railroad Lines: United States
a.      Wabash RR
b.     Washington & Old Dominion RR
c.      West Jersey & Seashore RR
d.     West Shore RR
e.      Western & Atlantic RR
f.       Western Maryland RR
g.      Western Railway of Alabama
h.      Western Pacific RR
i.       Wheeling & Lake Erie RR

 

22

Railroads: Canada
a.      Canadian Pacific RR
b.     Dominion Atlantic RR
c.      Newfoundland Railway
d.     Pacific Great Eastern Railway
e.      Prince Edward Island Railway
f.       Quebec Central Railway
g.      Quebec, North Shore & Labrador RR 
h.      Temiskaming & Northern Ontario  Railway
i.       Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway
j.       White Pass & Yukon RR

56

23

Railroads: Canada
a.      Canadian National 
b.     Grand Trunk RR

57

24

Railroad Collections, Hobbyists, Clubs and Books

58

25

Street Railways, Electric Lines and Urban Transit

59

26

Subways and Elevated Railways
a.      New York City
b.     Chicago
c.      Boston

60

27

Railroad Cars
a.      Passenger Coach
b.     Caboose
c.      Circus
d.     Coal 
e.      Dining and food service

61

28

Railroad Cars
a.      Freight (box, hopper, tanker, etc.)
b.     Mail
c.      Piggyback
d.     Sleeper
e.      Vista Domes
f.       Wreckers and Cranes

62

29

Railroad Cars
a.      Builders and Manufacturers (American Car Foundry)
b.     Service and Maintenance
c.      Yards 

63

30

Pullman Company

64

31

Pullman Company (cont.)

65

32

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a.      History
b.     Builders and manufacturers (ALCO, Baldwin, etc.)
c.      Parts

66

33

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a.      Maintenance and repair
b.     Types (design and classification)

67

34

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a. Pictorial Chronology of the Steam Engine, 1789-1899

68

35

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a.      Pictorial history (Aberdeen RR-Lehigh & Hudson RR)

69

36

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a.      Pictorial history (Lehigh Valley RR-Pacific Electric RR)

70

37

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a.  Pictorial  history (Pennsylvania RR-Yosemite Valley RR)

71

38

Railroad Engines and Locomotives
a. Diesel—Electric Power

72

39

Railroad Subjects
a.      Accidents
b.     Almanacs
c.      Anniversaries of Railroad Companies
d.     Association of American Railroads
e.      Automobiles
f.       Baggage
g.      Boats
h.      Bonds and stocks
i.       Books

73

40

Railroad Subjects
a.      Bridges
b.     Builders
c.      Bus lines
d.     Calendars
e.      Coal
f.       Cogs
g.      Crossings

74

41

Railroad Subjects
a.      Employees
b.     Engineers
c.      Express Agencies

75

42

Railroad Subjects
a.      Fares
b.     Firsts
c.      Freight
d.     Gauges

76

43

Railroad Subjects
a.      Grade Crossings
b.     Guides
c.      Information Booklets
d.     Land Grants
e.      Magazines  (by railroad company, A-M)

77

44

Railroad Subjects
a.      Magazines (N-Z)
b.     Mail
c.      Maps
d.     Mileage
e.      Miniatures and Models
f.       Movies (Motion Pictures)
g.      Museums
h.      Officers
i.       Ownership

78

45

Railroad Subjects
a.      Parts
b.     Passengers
c.      Payroll
d.     Piers
e.      Police
f.       Presidents
g.      Quiz
h.      Radio
i.       Real estate
j.       Regulations
k.      Retirement and Employee Benefits
l.       Right-of-way
m.    Routes
n.      Safety
o.     Shipping
p.     Shops
q.     Shorelines

79

46

Railroad Subjects
a.      Signals
b.     Snow
c.      Stations

80

47

Railroad Subjects
a.      Stationery
b.     Strikes (Labor)
c.      Supplies
d.     Taxes
e.      Telegraph
f.       Telephone
g.      Television

 

48

Railroad Subjects
a.      Ticket Stubs
b.     Ticketing

81

49

Railroad Subjects
a.      Time (Railroad Standard Time)
b.     Timetables
c.      Tracks
d.     Trademarks
e.      Travel and Tours
f.       Tunnels

82

50

Railroad Subjects
a.      War (World War mobilization)
b.     Wrecks
c.      YMCA

83

51A

Trains: Subjects
a.      Air conditioning
b.     Anniversaries
c.      Fastest trains
d.     First trains

 

51B

Trains: Subjects
a.      Heating Systems
b.     Names of trains
c.      Robberies
d.     Train talks

84

52

Trains (Classification)
a.      Aero-train
b.     Aluminum
c.      Custom-made
d.     Defense
e.      Hi-level
f.       Hospital
g.      Jet train
h. &nbs p;    Model train
i.       Snow train
j.       Talgo train
k.      Tubular train

85

53A

Fairs and Expositions
a.      Great Lakes Exposition, 1936
b.     New York World Fair, 1939
c.      Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco), 1939
d.     Chicago Railroad Fair, 1949

 

53B

Railroad Miscellany
a.      Historical
b.     Travel
c.      New York World's Fair, 1939

86

54

Railroads or the World: Central and South America
a.      Bahamas
b.     Barbados
c.      Bermuda
d.     Cuba
e.      Dominican Republic
f.       Haiti
g.      Jamaica
h.      Puerto Rico
i.       Trinidad
j.       Virgin Islands
k.      Mexico
l.       Guatemala
m.    El Salvador
n.      Costa Rica
o.     Panama
p.     Argentina
q.     Bolivia
r.      Brazil
s.      Chile
t.       Colombia
u.      Ecuador
v.     Peru
w.    Uruguay
x.      Venezuela

87

55

Railroads of the World: Great Britain and Ireland
a.      Associated British Railways
b.     City of London
c.      Cheshire Line Railway
d.     Great Western Railway
e.      London, Midland and Scottish Railway
f.       London & Northeastern Railway
g.      Southern Railway of England
h.      Great Northern Railways (Ireland)
i.       Great Southern Railways (Ireland)

88

56

Railways of the World: Europe
a.      Austria
b.     Belgium
c.      Czechoslovakia
d.     Denmark
e.      Estonia
f.       Finland
g.      France

89

57

Railways of the World: Europe
a.      Germany
b.     Greece
c.      Holland (The Netherlands)
d.     Hungary
e.      Italy
f.       Latvia 
g.      Lithuania
h.      Norway
i.       Poland 
j.       Russia
k.      Spain
l.       Sweden
m.    Switzerland
n.      Turkey
o.     Yugoslavia

90

58

Railroads of the World: Asia
a.      Burma
b.     Ceylon
c.      China
d.     Hong Kong
e.      Hawaii
f.       India
g.      Japan
h.      Java
i.       Korea
j.       Malaysia
k.      Manchuria
l.       Mongolia
m.    Pakistan
n.      Palestine (Israel)
o.     Persia
p.     Philippines
q.     Thailand

91

59

Railways of the World
a.      Africa
b.     Egypt
c.      Sudan
d.     South Africa
e.      Australia
f.       New Zealand

 

60

New York Central System: History and Excursions

92

61

United States Politics and Presidential Campaigns