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Contents:
- National Archives and
Records Administration. Riding the Rails Up Paper Mountain:
Researching Railroad Records in the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/spring/railroad-records-1.html
- National Archives and
Records Administration. Records Relating to North American
Railroads, Reference Paper 91 (this publication accessible
through the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society website)
http://rlhs.org/research.htm
- Railroad Maps at the
Library of Congress.
A selection from the Geography and Map Division holdings, based
on the popular cartobibliography, Railroad Maps of the United
States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th-century
Maps in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress,
compiled by Andrew M. Modelski (Washington: Library of Congress,
1975). This annotated list reveals the scope of the railroad map
collection and highlights the development of railroad mapping
in 19th-century America. Described are 623 maps which show "internal
improvements" of the past century.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
- Civil War Maps at the Library of Congress
Includes many maps of the Northern and Southern
railroad systems.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
- National Transportation
Library, administered by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
in cooperation with the Transportation Administrative Services
Center (TASC), the operating administrations, and the Office of
the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation
http://www.bts.gov/smart/
- National Transportation
Safety Board Railroad Accident Reports (1967-present)
http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/R_Acc.htm
- Department of Transportation,
Interstate Commerce Commission Historical Railroad Reports, 1911-1966
http://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/
- Federal Railroad Administration:
U.S. Department of Transportation, at http://www.fra.dot.gov/ and the Office of Safety Analysis
- Railroading in the Northeast
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/ne_trainlinks.html
- Railroad Museum of New England
http://www.rmne.org/
- Remembering the Rutland Railroad
http://www.ultranet.com/~jimdu4/
- Vermont Historical Society Library. Includes collections
with information about the Vermont Central Railroad.
http://www.vermonthistory.org/library.htm
- New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire.
Holds papers of Charles S. Mellen (1851-1927), president of the New
Haven Railroad from 1903 to 1913.
http://www.nhhistory.org/
- Harvard Business School, Baker Library, Historical Collections
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Center for Lowell History.
Includes the Boston and Maine Historical Society papers.
http://library.uml.edu/clh/BMArch.Html
- Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society
http://www.trainweb.org/bmrrhs/
- Beverly [Massachusetts] Historical Society and Museum: Walker
Transportation Collection.
http://www.beverlyhistory.org/
- Amherst [Massachusetts] Railway Society
http://www.amherstrail.org/
- Old Colony & Newport Scenic Railway
http://www.ocnrr.com/
- Connecticut Eastern Chapter of the National Railway Historical
Society
http://cteastrrmuseum.org/
- Western Connecticut Chapter, National Railway Historical Society
http://www.westctnrhs.org/
- Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, Connecticut
http://www.ceraonline.org/
- Danbury, Connecticut, Railway Museum
http://www.danbury.org/drm/
- The Unofficial Housatonic Railroad Page
http://homepage.mac.com/housatonic/
- The New Canaan Railroad: A Connecticut Branch Line. An appreciation
of the rail line that was integral to the development of Fairfield
County, Connecticut, with interactive maps, photographs, and information
about the rail line's history
http://www.imediaet.com/ncrr/index.htm
- New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, Inc.
A tax-exempt, non-profit group dedicated to the preservation of the
history of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and
its predecessor and subsidiary companies.
http://www.nhrhta.org/
- "The Devastation and Restoration of New England's Vital
Life Line -- the New Haven R.R.," a book published by the
New Haven Railroad to commemorate the effects of the Hurricane of
1938 on the railroad.
http://members.cox.net/d_laroche/hurricane/hurricane.htm - Mystic Valley Railway Society
http://mysticvalleyrs.org/
- Connecticut River Museum in Essex, Connecticut
http://www.ctrivermuseum.org/
- Essex Steam Train in Essex, Connecticut
http://www.essexsteamtrain.com
- Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven, Connecticut
http://www.bera.org/
- New York Central Railroad Museum
http://www.nycrrmuseum.org/
- Conrail Historical Society
http://www.thecrhs.org/ - Conrail Cyclopedia
http://crcyc.railfan.net/
- Syracuse University Library, Special Collections . Holds
archival materials about the Erie Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, and the Boston and Maine
Railroad
http://libwww.syr.edu/information/spcollections/index.html
- Cornell University Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts . Collection includes the Cooper Bridge Collection, which holds drawings Theodore Cooper (1839-1919), editor of Transactions of the American Society of Engineers. The collection has drawings of the Lyman Viaduct in Colchester, Connecticut. Finding aid to the collection available at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM04709.html
- Western New York Railroad Archive
http://wnyrails.railfan.net/
- New Jersey State Archives
The New Jersey State Archives (http://www.njarchives.org/)
holds the records of many railroad companies that ran in the state.
A listing can be found at http://www.njarchives.org/links/webcat/queries/prailroa.html.
- Ulster and Delaware Railroad Historical Society
http://www.udrrhs.org/
- Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives. Records of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
http://www.library.temple.edu/urbana/
- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/
- Pennsylvania State Archives . The Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission, Bureau of Archives and History
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/DAM/overview.htm
- The Library Company of Philadelphia. Holds a collection of
photographs of scenes of the Pennsylvania Railroad, taken by William
Rau.
http://www.librarycompany.org/
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum
http://www.borail.org/
- Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.
The library houses a collection of books, pamphlets, trade catalogs,
manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and audiovisual materials documenting
the history of American business and technology, including the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/
- Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society (Clifton Forge, Virginia)
http://www.cohs.org
- The Virginia Tech Imagebase, a database of photographs of Norfolk & Western Railway Company locomotives and scenes
related to the railroad, at http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/
- Virginia Museum of Transportation. Information about the
Norfolk & Western Railway Company.
http://www.vmt.org
- Kentucky Railway Museum. The Kentucky Railway Museum was
founded in Louisville in 1954 and owns 17 miles of the ex-Louisville
& Nashville Lebanon branch with operating headquarters in New Haven,
Kentucky,and a passenger boarding area in Boston, Kentucky.
http://www.kyrail.org/
- University of Tennessee Knoxville, Library Manuscript Collection.
The records include those of the Smoky Mountain Railroad, the Knoxville
Railway and Light Company, and the Tennessee Central Railway.
http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/
- Johnson's Depot, with information about the railroad history
of Johnson City, Tennessee
http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Preservation Society
http://www.ncstl.com/
- A Pictorial Tour of the Sequatchie Valley Railroad, by the South Pittsburg (Tennessee) Historic Preservation Society
http://www.historicsouthpittsburgtn.org/SequatchieValleyRailroad.html - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Business History Resources in the Southern Historical Collection,
Manuscripts Department of the UNC-CH Library. Includes extensive railroad
history resources.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html
- North Carolina railroad history
http://www.historync.org/railroads.htm - Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Kennesaw,
Georgia
http://www.southernmuseum.org/
- Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, Inc.
The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, Inc., was founded in 1981
to acquire, protect, preserve and operate interesting and historic
examples of railroad rolling stock, artifacts, and other aspects of
railroad history, with emphasis on railroads that served the state
of Florida.
http://www.fgcrrm.org/
- "Hazardous Business: Industry, Regulation and the Texas
Railroad Commission", an online exhibit by the Texas State
Library & Archives Commission
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/railroad/index.html
- Cleveland State University Library, Railroad History Holdings
(part of the Cleveland Memory Project)
http://www.clevelandmemory.com/rr/
- A Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/
- Illinois Railway Museum
http://www.irm.org/
- Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
http://www.northshoreline.com/
- Michigan Railroad History Museum and Archives, Durand, Michigan
Dedicated to preserving the records of railroads headquartered and
operated in the state of Michigan. Railroads represented include the
Grand Trunk Western Railway, the Michigan Central Railroad, New York
Central Railroad, and the Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad.
http://durandstation.org/
- John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the University
of Missouri -- St. Louis
http://www.umsl.edu/barriger/
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Railroad History collections
http://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/rail.htm
- Minnesota Historical Society. The MHS holds the corporate
records of the St. Paul-based Great Northern, its predecessors, and
its subsidiaries and affiliates, documenting their operations across
the northern tier of western states for more than one hundred years,
until its 1970 merger with the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle that formed the
Burlington Northern.
http://www.mnhs.org/index.html
- University of Iowa John P. Vander Maas Railroadiana collection
http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/railroadiana - Durham Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. The museum
has historical information about railroads that used Omaha's Union
Station, including the Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago, Milwaukee,
St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Illinois Central
System; Missouri Pacific Lines; Union Pacific System; and Wabash Railway.
http://www.dwhm.org/
- Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad (Nebraska Railroad Museum)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4184/fevr.html
- Steam and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad.
A digital project of the Railroad History Archive, Thomas J. Dodd
Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.
http://railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/
- Railroad Stations in Southern New England, from the collections
in the Railroad History Archive at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center,
UConn Libraries
http://railroads.uconn.edu/exhibits/railroadstations/index.html
- Tribute to the Union Station in Canaan, Connecticut
http://railroads.uconn.edu/exhibits/canaan/index.html
- Connecticut History Online, with many photographs of New
Haven Railroad stations
http://cthistoryonline.org/
- New England Rail Photography Archive
http://photos.nerail.org/
- O. Winston Link Museum of the History Museum & Historical
Society of Western Virginia. A museum, still under construction,
highlighting the work of the O. Winston Link (1914-2001), who photographed
images of the last generation of steam locomotives.
http://www.linkmuseum.org/
- George Elwood Online Collection
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh.html
- Syracuse University Library. Department of Special Collections.
Erie Railroad Company. Erie Railroad stations & related activities:
a collection of 8 x 10 inch glass plate negatives, ca. 1909.
http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/images/e/ErieRailroad/
- Historic Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] Image Collections, an
online gateway to images in the collections of the University of Pittsburgh,
Carnegie Museum of Art, and Library & Archives of the Historical
Society of Western Pennsylvania at the History Center, which include
several hundred photographs associated with the region's railroads,
at http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?xc=1;page=index;g=imls
- Union Pacific Historical Information and Photo Gallery
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/
- Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado. This on-line collection
contains a selection of historic photographs from the collections
of the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department
and the Colorado Historical Society. These collections, which contain
more than one million items, document the history of Colorado and
the American West. Currently the on-line collection contains some
80,000 images and catalog records of Native Americans, pioneers, early
railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns.
http://photoswest.org/
- Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, at the Indiana
University Archives
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp
- Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
http://CPRR.org/
- The Cleveland Memory Project: A Showcase for the Special
Collections of the Cleveland State University Library. Includes many
photographs of trains, including those associated with the Nickel
Plate Road, at http://www.clevelandmemory.org/nkp2/,
and the Cleveland Union Terminal, at http://www.clevelandmemory.org/cut2/.
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/
- Center for Railroad Photography and Art
http://www.railphoto-art.org/
- National Railway Historical Society
http://www.nrhs.com/
- Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
http://rlhs.org/; a link to an index of their publication, "Railroad History," is available at http://www.rlhs.org/ridxtit.htm - Railroad Station Historical Society
http://www.rrshs.org/
- Connecticut's Heritage Gateway: A Program of the Connecticut
Humanities Council
http://www.ctheritage.org
- Southern New England Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archaeology
http://www.snecsia.org/
- Vernon, Connecticut, Depot and Vernon railroad history
http://www.vernondepot.com/
- Shore Line East: Commuter rail service between New Haven
and New London, Connecticut
http://www.shorelineeast.com/
- "A Brief History of Lines West of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad," by Phillip Blakeslee
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnere2.Html - State Transportation Library of Massachusetts
http://www.stlibrary.org/
- Association of American Railroads
http://www.aar.org/
- Conrail
http://www.conrail.com/
- New York City Subway Resources
http://www.nycsubway.org/,
with http://www.nycsubway.org/us/metronorth/newhaven.html
for information about the New Haven line on Metro-North Commuter
Railroad
- Trains Magazine Online
http://www.trainsmag.com/
- National Model Railroad Association, Kalmbach Memorial Library,
Chattanooga, Tennessee
http://www.nmra.org/library/
- National Model Railroad Association's Directory of World Wide
Rail Sites
http://www.cwrr.com/nmra/
- Peters Railroad Museum, Wallingford, Connecticut
http://pages.cthome.net/petersrrmuseum/
- RailroadData.com
http://www.railroaddata.com/
- RailwayStation.com's Railroad Answer Page
http://www.railwaystation.com/rranswer.html
- 1942 Quiz Book on Railroads and Railroading, on RailwayStation.com
http://www.railwaystation.com/1942/
- TrainNet.org (international railroad links)
http://www.tadlane.com/rrlinks.htm
- www.rrhistorical.com
http://www.rrhistorical.com/
- Scripophily: collectible stocks and bond certificates
http://www.scripophily.net/
- Connecticut Roads
http://www.kurumi.com/roads/ct/
- Topozone.com. Interactive website of topographic maps of
the United States
http://www.topozone.com/
- Historic USGS Maps of New England, provided by the Dimond
Library of the University of New Hampshire
http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm
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