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This section is a catch-basin for railroad-related documents that do not fall into the other categories listed at far right. Some are stand-alone, while others are contained within various Wx4 pages.
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Interesting reads for SP fans
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4-5-23
9-29-22
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1890-01-09 Letter From Bradley Station - In 1890, a carpenter from Scotland, appropriately enough named John Scott, wrote to a friend back home about his work as a contractor for various SP projects, as well as a descripton of his travels through California We trust that you younger readers are versed in cursive script.
1933-10-10 SP Present Status Branch Line Train Service: Five page statement of current branch line local passenger / mixed service likely made to regulating authorities. - Jeff Asay
1966-09-10 Southern Pacific Long Range Planning Program; 213 pgs. texts and graphs; seven LARGE maps of proposed changes in yards and main lines to accomodate anticipated lumber traffic increases, including a proposed cutoff between the Modoc Line and gerlach, NV.
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CP/SP/NWP Lists of Agencies, Stations/Officers, etc.
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date posted
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7-31-23
7-31-23
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7-31-23
1-11-21
7-31-23
7-31-23
11-27-22
6-23-20
8-21-24
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4-30-2024
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Equipment, SP & other railroads
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date posted
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PDF files as indicated =
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Passenger Equipment
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Master Car-Builders' Dictionaries
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PacificNG.org has collected links to several editions at Google Books |
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Operator / Service Manuals
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6-23-20
7-22-19
7-22-19
7-22-19
12-31-22
2-5-23
2-5-23
2-5-23
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Blueprints / Drawings
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6-22-21
8-10-24
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Southern Pacific Steam Locomotive Blueprints - large collection rescued by
mmmBayshore-Machinist Fred Boland, courtesy of son, Walter
SP #150 Sunset Plans - chairman of the board's private car
1941 Southern Pacific Lines Diagrams of Tenders; 80 pages
mmmHaving trouble sorting out a 98-SC-5 from a 98-SC-6? No more!
SP C. S. Passenger Car Diagrams book, circa 1930: 204 pages!
mmmShasta Div. Archives
SP Passenger Car Clearance Diagrams 1938-42 - seven heavyweight and lightweight car diagrams from Shasta Div. Archives . Ken Kidder could have used these to get his HO scale Harriman roofs correct. |
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Rosters
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6-22-21
6-15-24
6-15-24
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SP Steam Rosters, 1935 and 1942 - part of Fred Boland's Blueprints
Final SP Peninsula Commute Fleet Roster - 1980
August 8, 1912 Rock Island steam locomotive roster - company-generated
mmmtypewritten document
1989-05-30 "correct" location of fire cars on SP's Oregon Division - Shasta Div. Archives
Southern Pacific Snow Service, 1994 Guide - includes snow equipt. roster - Now Available as PDF: see SP Snow Service page |
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Miscellaneous
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Diesel, The Modern Power - 1944 GM booklet about the wonders of newfound
mmmDiesel propulsion |
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SP Assorted Paperwork
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Snow
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SP "Snow Service" instructions and rosters; NEW 7-3-24: 1899-1907 drawings of snow sheds - see SP Snow Service page |
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------------------------SP Locomotive Ratings (from employee timetables)
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6-22-21
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How to Operate an SP Steam Locomotive Booster, 1946
- courtesy Charles Peartree
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9-29-22
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Operating crews "paperwork", courtesy of Charles Peartree: Railroad organizations are based upon a military model. What this essentially means is that the Navy operates on the sea, while railroads once operated on a sea of paperwork. For operating crews this meant that, beyond picking up train orders and wheel reports, there typically was a wad of other paperwork to digest - messages, bulletins, and what have you. This seven page PDF gives us an assorted hint of what crews of the 1940's faced. |
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SP, tracking car movements
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3-14-23
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Tracking manifest freight
1902-06-01 SP Insrtuctions Governing Movement of Manifest Freight
xxxSunset and Star (Ogden) routes |
9-29-22
9-29-22
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1976-04-12 SP train OAWCY conductor's paperwork - When SP began using computers to generate train paperwork, conductors received a consist printout on a dot matrix printed, continuous perforated edge sheet form wrapped around a set of IBM punch cards - one card for each car - generated by TOPS. I found the example here in a caboose tool bin, about two years after the fact. What it was doing there, I could not fathom - EO
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Miscellany
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-Rules for loading freight cars
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5-10-19
6-22-21
5-10-19
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1896-10-01 Louisville & Nashville
1917 Master Car Builders loading rules
1960-02-01 Association of American Railroads
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Technical
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8-31-19
7-26-19
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Results of Comparative Demonstration for Determining the Distinctive
Features of Standard and Improved Air Brake Equipment for Freight and
Passenger Cars Conducted Jointly by Southern Pacific Company, Pacific
---System, and the Westinghouse Air Brake Co (1908) - Google Books link
Service Test of Cross Ties This obscure report is dated ~ January, 1916 by the only reference to it on the Internet.
Southern Pacific's Early Remote Control Locomotive Tests - 1960-70's
Bay Area Rapid Transit simulator training
ca.1938 Southern Pacific Train Primer, A Little Book About Our Locomotives mmmand What the Signs and Signals Mean
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Other
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A Circular of the Times, I - The passing of the 40 ft. boxcar
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Way-Out-There Other
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5-23-23
5-23-23
6-22-21
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Helixtram revised page, with a new full PDF. Read
this transformative document and then contact your local planning commission.
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Patent: The Friedman System of Train Manipulation, 1902 - rumored as
xxxbeing adopted by California High Speed Rail
Patent: Lee's Cab Forward Loco, 1912 - Stephenson's Rocket meets SP |
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-- Chicago Great Western, assorted docs
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Wx4 friend Ryan Heath has kindly forwarded these scans of company documents, some of which date back to the early years of the 20th Century. These are very representative of the types found on large railroads.
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1889-09-01 General Rules & Regulations, Chicago St. Paul & Kansas City
xxxx Railway - Although the Standard Code was then becoming popular,
xxxx this Chicago Great Western predecessor elected to go its own way
xxxx with this book. - Wx4
Application for employment, page 1
Application for employment, page 2
Bad Order tag
Carmen's "Car [inspection] Certificate"
"This Car Contains Charcoal Heater" warning
Conductor's Register Ticket for movement with train orders
Form 31 blank train order
"Card Bill for Movement of Empty Cars"
Letterhead, Office of General Storekeeper, Corn Belt herald
Letterhead, Patrick H. Joyce and Luther M. Walter, Trustees
Notepad with Lucky Strike herald
Waybill, early
Waybill, late
United States Railroad Administration / CGW envelope
"Eggs, Handle with Care" placard
1936-09-01 Chicago Great Western system PTT - Wx4
1948-09-05 Chicago Great Western system PTT - WX4
1924-06-22 CGW Western Div. #32 ETT - Tim Zukas
1928-01-29 CGW Eastern Div. #37 ETT - Tim Zukas
Book of Rules, 1923-05-01 - from Google Books
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Southern Pacific Steam Locomotive Blueprints
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Odds & Ends
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date posted
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6-22-21
9-24-19
6-22-21
9-29-22
9-29-22
5-23-23
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Advertising
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date posted
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SP in Newspapers & Magazines
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4-30-24
4-30-24
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SP locos in manufacturers' ads
Past Less Traveled advertising section (page bottom)
1903 Golden State, Cosmopolitan, three color
1924 Ralston Steel Car Company, stock & gondola cars
Monterey Branch Timetables, Maps Ads
Market Street Cable Railway / Park and Ocean Railroad (1889 SP timetable)
Santa Clara & San Jose Electric Ry., 1904 Sunset Magazine Ad
Overland Limited 1915 color
SP Morgan Hill 1901 "Colonist" tickets promotion
1937 Coast Daylight, Saturday Evening Post, color
1944 Coast Daylight from the Saturday Evening Post, a color beauty!
1951 Golden State, color
1951 City of SF, color
1951 Sunset Limited, color
1954 Coast Daylight, b&w
1954 City of SF, with 'populated' "SP"
1965 SP "Vanishing American", Sunset Magazine - one of SP's more
xxxxnotorous ads - courtesy Seabass
1968-06-00 SP Automatic Buffet ["Automat"] Car menu
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6-22-21
2-25-23
7-22-19
7-22-19
6-22-21
8-5-21
6-22-21
6-22-21
12-27-19
6-22-21
6-22-21
8-30-19
7-31-19
6-22-21
6-22-21
6-22-21
2-25-23
9-29-22
9-29-22
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6-22-21
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5-23-23
6-22-21
6-1-19
6-22-21
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1897-98 A Winter in California 47 page advertising booklet ; for high-end
mmmBoston clients; several excursions via SP and/or AT&SF; Hawaii option
1903 SP The San Joaquin Valley, 50 page brochure (p17-18missing) of brief
xxxtown descriptions
1915 Official Miniature View Book, Panama Pacific Int'l. Exposition
1915 UP California and the Expositions, Yellowstone Nat'l. Park
1916 Along the Columbia - beautiful SP&S oversize booklet about Astoria -
xxxxFt. Stevens - Seaside lines
1917 CWR&N "Through the Redwoods, Camping Hunting Fishing" brochure
1920 SP Geat Salt Lake Cut-off brochure
1923-02-26 Wayside Notes Along the Shasta Route
1923-03-21 SP Outing Resorts in California and Southern Oregon,
mmmbooklet
1927-06-15 Wayside Notes, Overland Route, Lake Tahoe Line
1929ca Mauch Chunk Switchback Ry brochure: "Oldest Railroad in America"
1936-02-02 Pacific Electric Mt. Lowe promo brochure w/ public TT
1936 Trans-Siberian Express brochure from Intourist, plus 1951 East German xxxRailways timetable from the CIA, includes Wx4 commentary.
1936-12-28 SP Meet the Californian - new economy train
1938-02-15 SP Californian brochure
1938, circa Southern Pacific Train Primer - a railfan's delight!
1939 SP San Francisco World's Fair brochure
1939-07-00 SP Evangaline Country (Louisiana) brochure
1948-11-00 SP News Service Catalog distributed by on board News Agents
1949 The Railroad Hour - ABC (later NBC) radio program brochure
1950, circa SP / Nde M Side Trips to Mexico City brochure
1952-04 SP Golden State brochure - some Madison Ave. guy old SP the bill
xxxxof goods on this one: awful graphics
1955, circa Ferry Riders sightseeing pamphlet - SP PR department
1957-03 SP "Operation Fill, A guide for "sidewalk superintendents" on the Salt
xxxLake Fill
1958-04-27 Your San Joaquin Daylight Trip - SP PR department
SP's Commute Centennial, 1864-1964 - SP PR department
Yellowstone Park RR ads, brochures (page)
1970, ca Chihuahua Pacific Copper Canyon brochure in English, featuring
xxxxFiat? railcars
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Advertising with Wx4 Commentary
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1950's Now! Railroading by Radar + Wx4 commentary
Silly Johnny is Dead!, 2 pages of RR ads and Wx4 commentary: cynical
xxxxhumor not recommended for non-railroaders
Romance of the Rails (page)
Milwaukee Road Xmas Vignette
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SP Tickets, Fares
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date posted
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Dining Car Menus
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date posted
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SP Passenger Train Docs
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date posted
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6-22-21
5-29-20
5-29-20
5-29-20
9-18-21
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