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Monthly statements of passengers and tons of freight carried over the railroad by the New York and New England Railroad. Kept by W.H. Moore, the railroad's general passenger agent, in Matteawan, New York

Records for the Traffic Department include: Mileage books (Indexed), 1918-1928; Equipment lease, 1916; Expenditures for systems and equipment report, 1897-1915; Revenue forecast (Indexed), 1943; Scrapbook of AGA reflector signals, 1926; Salt content books (recording the salinity of the Savannah River), 1923-1944; Track mileage books, 1917-1929; Equipment report, 1913-1930; and Locomotive equipment registers, 1903-1952

A receipt issued to J.H. Bills for payment on freight carried by the railroad. The receipt notes that Bills shipped 10 coils of rope and 5 pieces of bagging at a cost of $4.54. The receipt was stamped at Hickory Valley on 13 September 1861

This collection contains one account book created by Sawyer and Company in Indianapolis in 1863 regarding shipments of dry goods via railroads

Stock account book kept by the Essex Marine Railway, of Salem, Mass. Includes accounts for individual stockholders, profit & loss accounts, and contra accounts. Includes index

Freight account book kept by the Eastern Railroad Company. Includes records for freight carried between Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester, Beverly, and Salem, Mass

The Conrail photograph collection consists of an extremely large amount of images from its company files, but the majority of the material comes from its predecessor companies: Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central Transportation Company. These items are predominanatly composed of photographs, negatives, transparencies, lantern slides, films; there is one bound report about the Alfred E. Perlman Yard in Selkirk, N.Y. regarding improvements (1966). In addition, there are images of Penn Central, Conrail, Amtrak, Metroliner trains, turbotrains, and commuter trains; passenger trains such as the Airway Limited, Congressional Limited, Manhattan Limited, Merchants Limited, among others; miscellaneous traffic carried on trains (automobiles, coal, mobile homes, perishables, etc.); bridges including the Rockville Bridge, tunnels, and towers; boxcars, including the one millionth freight car built by Pullman Standard in 1979, business cars, cattle cars, clearance cars, "Dewitt Clinton" (train), ...

The archive consists of the corporate records of the Reading Company (1871-1976), the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (1833-1896), the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company (1896-1923), and 159 predecessors and subsidiaries. Record types include minutes, account books, securities records, reports and agreements. Departmental records are available for the parent company, primarily from the various officers of the Operating Department, the Legal Department, the Secretary and Treasurer. Fragments of presidential correspondence are also available, especially for J.S. Harris and A.A. McLeod. Departmental records contain abundant detail on operating, technical and labor matters, with coverage relatively complete for the 1860-1914 period. Of special interest are papers relating to the Molly Maguires in the 1870s

This subgroup consists of five registers that have survived from the early years of the company. They were purchased by Hagley at the Penn Central Auction of 1972