J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Utah railroad collection
ACCN 2973
51.75 linear feet
31 boxes
1868-2012
The Utah railroad collection (1868-2012) contains ephemeral materials that were created by various railroad companies within Utah and the West. The types of materials within the collection include locomotive operating manuals, historical information regarding railroads, timetables, ticket stubs, telegrams, labor union items, promotional booklets, stationary, calendars, and much more.
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The Utah railroad collection contains ephemeral materials that were created by various railroad companies within Utah and the West. The types of materials within the collection include locomotive operating manuals, historical information regarding railroads, timetables, ticket stubs, telegrams, labor union items, promotional booklets, stationary, calendars, and much more.
This collection was arragned into the following series: I. General materials; II. General railroad history materials; III. Collected ephemeral materials; and IV. Oversize materials.
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Purchased from Goreham Collectibles in 2016.
Processed by Betsey Welland in 2017.
Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
General Motors Corporation. Electro-Motive Division
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company--Archives
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Archives
Bamberger Railroad Company--Archives
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company--Archives
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.)--Archives
Western Pacific Railroad Company--Archives
Bingham and Garfield Railway Company--Archives
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--Archives
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Archives
Locomotives--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Street-railroads--Utah--Sources
Railroads--United States--History
Railroads--Employees--Labor Unions--United States
Locomotive engineers--Archives
Railroads--Labor Unions--United States--Sources
Railroads
Transportation
Handbooks and manuals
Records (Documents)
Collective labor agreements
Calendars
Stationery
Menus
Obituaries
Maps
Posters
Postcards
Brochures
Newspaper clippings
Operating manuals
Personnel records
Promotional materials
Scrapbooks
Transportation timetables
Ticket stubs
Telegrams
General materials
Train operating manuals
O. W. Brandt, Explanation of Train Rules and Train Orders
1921
1
1
Electrical circuits maintenance
1
2
Engine Maintenance Manual
1957
1
3
Manual for Model 567 C Engines, published by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation.
Enginemen's Manual for Operating Fairbanks-Morse Diesel-Electric Locomotives
1946
1947
1
4
Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company, Rules and Instructions for All Departments
1956
1
5
"On-the-Road Trouble-Shooting" booklets
1948
1949
1952
1
6
Manuals published by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation.
Operating manuals
1947-1949
1941
1947
1947
1947
1947
1947
1947
1948
1949
1
7
This folder contains the following operating manuals:
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Instruction Manual for the Operation of Railway Equipment, Diesel-Electric Passenger Locomotives: 7M1, 7M2, 8M1, 9M1 and 9M2 (EMC 1136 to 1141 - E-333), 1941
- Vapor Car Heating Company, Operator's Manual for DK-4530 and DK-4516 Vapor-Clarkson Steam Generators, 1947
- Vapor Heating Corporation, Operator's Manual for CFK-4225, CFK-4225-2, CFK-4225-2A and CFK-4225-3A Series Vapor-Clarkson Steam Generating Units, 1947
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Instruction Guide on the Operation of Model F3 Diesel Locomotives, 1947
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Diesel-Electric Road Locomotive 2000-HP "A" and "B" Units, Operating Manual, 1947
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Diesel-Electric Road Switcher 1500-HP, Operating Manual, 1947
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Diesel-Electric Road Locomotive 1500-HP "A" and "B" Units, Operating Manual, 1947
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Diesel Locomotive Operating Manual for Model F3, 1948
- ELESCO, Operation and Service Instructions for Forced Recirculation Steam Generators, 1949
Operating manuals
1950-1954
1970
1950
1953
1954
1954
1954
1970
1
8
This folder contains the following operating manuals:
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Operating Manual for 1600 HP Freight-Passenger Locomotive, 1950
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Operating Manual for Model RSD-7 6 Motor Road Switcher, 1953
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Diesel Locomotive Operating Manual for Model E9 with Vapor Car Steam Generator, 1954
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Diesel Locomotive Operating Manual for Model GP9 with Vapor Car Steam Generator, 1954
- General Electric Company, Operating Instructions, Gas-Turbine Electric Locomotive, 1954
- Union Pacific, Operating Manual for all EMD Locomotive, Passenger and Freight, 1970
Operating manuals
undated
1954
1970
2
1
This folder contains the following operating manuals:
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Diesel Locomotive Operating Manual for Model F3 with Dynamic Brake
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Manual for Enginemen for the 660-Hp Switcher, 1000-HP Switcher and the 1000-HP Road Switcher
- American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company, Manual for Enginemen for the 1500-HP Road Locomotive Units
- General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, Diesel Locomotive Operating Manual for Model GP9 with Vapor Car Steam Generator, 1954
- Union Pacific, Operating Manual for all EMD Locomotive, Passenger and Freight, 1970
Oregon Short Line Railroad, Rules and Instructions
2
2
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern and South-Central Districts, Operating Rules and Eastern and South-Central Districts and Idaho Division, Maintenance of Way and Signal Rules
1940
1946
1954
1972
2
3
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Spokane International Railroad Company, Rules and Instructions Governing Operation of Air Brakes, Communicating Signal System, Electric Headlights, Heating, Air Conditioning, Water Systems, and Lighting
1974
2
4
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Centralized Traffic Control System Rules"
1950
2
5
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Freight Car Safety Inspection Standards Established by the Federal Railroad Administration"
1974
2
6
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Rules and Instructions Governing Automatic Train Control Between East Portland and the Dalles Via Graham
1941
2
7
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Safety Instructions"
1946
1954
2
8
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Signal Test Requirements"
1942
1952
1954
2
9
Union Pacific System, Rules and Instructions of the Transportation Department and Operating Rules and Instructions Governing Air Brakes, Air Signals, Heating and Lighting Passenger Cars, and Electric Headlights
1919
1925
2
10
Union Pacific System, "Special Rules No. 2"
1935
2
11
Union Pacific-Western Pacific, "Rules for Joint Operation Between Smelter and Salt Lake City"
1967
2
12
Timetables
Burlington Timetable
1970
3
1
Inter-Mountain Time Books, California Division
1957
1964
3
2
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, Employee's Timetable
1899
3
3
Southern Pacific Timetable
1968
3
4
Southern Railway System Timetable
1969
3
5
Union Pacific Railroad Timetables
1953
1968
1970
3
6
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Central and Southwestern Districts, Joint Timetables, numbers 57 and 61
1936
1937
3
7
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Idaho Division, Timetables
1941
1947
1970
3
8
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Los Angeles Division, Timetables
1938
1940
1941
1943
1946
1948
3
9
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Idaho and Los Angeles Divisions, Salt Lake Yard, Timetable
1938
3
10
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Yard Railroad Company, Timetable
1935
3
11
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Northwestern District, Timetable
1975
3
12
Union Pacific Railroad Company, South-Central District, Timetable
1975
3
13
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Southwestern District, Timetables
1937
3
14
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Utah Division, Timetables
1942
1943
1945
1946
3
15
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Utah Division, Timetables
1947
1954
4
1
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Utah Division, Timetables
1955
1956
1957
4
2
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Utah Division, Timetables
1966
1968
1969
1970
4
3
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Wyoming Division, Timetables
1967
1970
4
4
Union Pacific System, Timetable
1922
4
5
Union Pacific System, Timetables, Number 1 and 6
1978
1982
4
6
General timetables
1943
4
7
Daily operational materials
Switch lists
1917
1942
5
1
Salt Lake Route telegrams
1917
5
2
Union Pacific System telegrams
1917
1930-1932
1942
5
3
Western Union and general telegrams
1917
1927-1937
5
4
Manifest pick-up reports
1917
1930-1932
1942
5
5
Employment materials
Amtrak, "Restrictions Governing Free and Reduced-Rate Travel"
1975
6
1
"By-laws of Salt Lake City Railroad Transportation Empolyees Federal Credit Union"
6
2
Hospital and Medical Depatment regulations for the Oregon Short Line Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad Company
1912
1945
1957
6
3
"Questions and Answers on the Railroad Retirement Act"
1947
1957
1959
6
4
"Railway Employees Seniority List and Time Books"
1937
1942
1947
1962
6
5
Rates of pay
1922-1952
6
6
"Rules of the Utah Central and Utah Southern Railroad Employees Mutual Aid Society"
1875
1878
6
7
Seniority rosters
1909-1981
6
8-10
Unemployment insurance
1938
1940
6
11
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "General Information for the Maintenance and Operation Diesel Engines-Streamliners, Questions and Answers for Examination and Re-examination of Engineer-Motormen and Helpers"
1936
7
1
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Physical Examination Rules"
1958
7
2
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Progressive Mechanical Examination for Locomotive Firemen"
1941
7
3
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Questions and Answers for Examination and Re-examination of Engineers on Rules and Instructions Governing Operation of Air Brakes"
1964
7
4
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Questions and Answers for Promotion of Firemen to Hostler and Oral Re-examination of Hostlers"
1951
7
5
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Questions and Answers of Air Brake Examination for Promotion of Firemen to Engineer and Oral Air-Brake Re-examination of Engineers"
1950
7
6
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Questions and Answers of Mechanical Examination for Promotion of Firemen to Engineer"
1948
1950
7
7
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Rules Governing Duties and Deportment of Employees. Safety Instructions and Radio"
1974
7
8
Union Pacific Railroad Company, South-Central District, Los Angeles Division, "Schedule of Rules Governing Wages and Working Conditions of Conductors, Brakemen and Train Baggagemen"
1939
7
9
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Southwest District, "Schedule of Pay, Rules and Working Conditions of Locomotive Engineers, Firemen and Hostlers"
1923
7
10
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Time Service"
1946
7
11
Western Pacific Railroad Company, Provisional Retirement Plan
1945
7
12
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers materials
"Agreement between the Union Pacific Railroad Company for the Territory Los Angeles-Salt Lake City and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers"
1942
1950
8
1
"Arbitation Award and Vacation Agreement"
1944
8
2
"Chicago Joint Agreement"
1923
8
3
"Constitution and By-laws of the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers"
1936
1950
1956
1962
8
4
"General Chairman's Report"
1946
8
5
General materials
1959-1972
8
6
General materials
25th Annual Report of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
1921
9
1
Bulletin orders
1940
1969
1973
9
2
Conductors 110% Memorandum Table
1942
9
3
Minutes of the Utah Division of Safety meeting
1942
9
4
Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway Company, General Freight Department forms
1920s
9
5
Stockholder shares certificates
9
6
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Transportation of Blind Persons"
1939
9
7
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Naming Rates on Classes and Commodities"
1915
9
8
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders"
1966
9
9
Union Pacific Railroad Company, "Weights Diesel-Electric and Gas-Turbine-Electric Power Units"
1960
1963
9
10
General materials
1911-1974
9
11
General railroad history materials
Railroad history
1918-1972
10
1
Train and railroads history scrapbook
10
2-3
Description of wrecks
1930s
undated
10
4
Engines bought and repaired
1970s
10
5
Old engines of early days
10
6
News clippings
1954-1985
10
7
Collected ephemeral materials
Bamberger Railroad Company
1907-1958
11-12
The binders stored in these boxes contain freight tariff materials, stationary, ticket stubs, reports, schedules, passenger passes.
Bingham & Garfield Railway Company
1909-1937
13
This box contains passenger passes, two letters, a stock certificate and other items.
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
1883-1976
14
This binder contains passenger passes, menus, correspondence, timetables, tourist's handbooks, telegrams and other items.
Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railway Company and the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Company
1893-1929
15
This binder contains passenger passes, travel information regarding Saltair, ticket stubs, postcards, and other items.
Salt Lake Route
1906-1917
16
This binder contains schedules of pay, travel information, telegrams, switch lists, ticket stubs, postcards, and other items regarding the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company.
Santa Fe Railway System
1890-1993
17
This binder contains timetables, calendars, passenger passes, correspondence and other items.
Southern Pacific Company
1889-1968
18
This binder contains timetables, calendars, and postcards.
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Timetables
1906-1969
19
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Brochures
1900-1960
20
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Miscellaneous
1868-1948
21
This binder contains menus, correspondence, bills of lading, telegrams, stationary, time and seniority rosters, rules and regulations, and mechanical examination questions booklets.
Union Pacific Railroad Company and Oregon Short Line, Miscellaneous
1884-1968
22
This binder contains passenger passes, claim tickets, calendars, paper model trains, stationary, labels and other materials.
Utah Inter-Urban Rail Lines
1917-2012
23
This box contains passenger passes, claim tickets, timetables, travel brochures, and other materials.
Utah Railroads
1876-1966
24-25
The binders held within these boxes contains passenger passes, timetables, travel information, correspondence, ticket stubs, postcards, and other items.
Utah Railway Company
1913-1971
26
The binder held within this box contains passenger passes, stock certificate, time table, correspondence and other items.
Western Pacific Railroad Company
1912-1944
27
The binder held within this box contains passenger passes, postcards, time table, promotional brochures and other items.
Oversize materials
Fellow railroad workers and friends scrapbook
1936-1998
28
This scrapbook contains obituaries.
"The Best Years of Railroading: Souvenirs of the Past," news clippings scrapbook
1938-1990
29
This scrapbook was compiled by M. H. Stanley.
Promotional booklets
1907
undated
30
This box contains the following booklet:
- Two separate versions of, The Overland Trail: from the Golden Gate to the Great Salt Lake. Along the Southern Pacific - The Road of a Thousand Wonders
-
From San Francisco to Salt Lake City. Along the lines of the Western Pacific Railroad Feather River Canon Route
-
Pathway to the Setting Sun
General materials
1934-1939
1963
1967
31
This box contains Union Pacific wall calendars, a map of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, and two posters of locomotives.