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Railroad Record Collections
MG-286 Penn Central Railroad Collection
MG-427 Baldwin-Hamilton Company Records
MG-393 Pullman Standard Manufacturing Company of Butler Records
MG-199 Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Collections
(includes some Reading Railroad tracings)
MG-274 Lehigh Valley Railroad Records
MG-300 Erie Lackawanna Railway Deposit
MG-311 Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company Records
(includes maps and structural drawings for the
Lehigh & New England Railroad
tracings)
MG-315 William Sellers and Company Records
(manufacturer of steam injectors for locomotives)
MG-401 Delaware and Hudson Railway Company Records
MG-48 Fall Brook Railroad and Coal Records
RG-17 Records of the Land Office: Board of Canal Commissioners
Allegheny Portage Railroad
Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad
Gettysburg Railroad
RG-29 Records of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
South Pennsylvania Railroad
MG-2 Business Records Collection: Transportation and Industry
Bear Creek Railroad/Shenango & Allegheny Railroad
Berks County Railroad
Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Midland Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad Company
MG-11 Map Collection: Section VI: Transportation Maps
MG-218 General Photograph Collections: Transportation Section
MG-219 Philadelphia Commercial Museum Collection (photographs)
MG-213 Postcard Collection
Aerial Photograph Collections, including:
RG-31 Records of the Dept. of Commerce
Aerial Photographs and Index of the 1940 Aerial Survey of Pennsylvania, 1937-1942. {#31.18}
* images for these and other years available online via the
PennPilot project
MG-416 Aero Service Corporation Photographs
, [ca. 1926-1948].
MG-281 Samuel W. Kuhnert Papers
, [ca. 1912-1976]
MG-425 Ebasco Environmental Company Aerial Photographs
, [ca. 1980-1985] ]
RG-37 Records of the Public Utility Commission: Bureau of Transportation
Annual Reports of Transportation Utilities for Large and Small Carriers {#37.5}
RG-14 Records of the Dept. of Internal Affairs: Various Annual Report Series relating to railroads
(some of which may be continued in RG-37)
Annual Census Reports of Motor Bus and Electric Transportation Carriers {#14.6}
Annual Census Reports of Railroads and Railroad Repair Establishments {#14.7}
Annual Reports of Passenger and Street Railway Companies {#14.15}
Annual Reports of Railroad and Street Railway Companies to the Auditor General and the Department of Internal Affairs {#14.18}
Registers of Steam Railroads, Street Railways, Canals, Telegraph and Telephone Companies {#14.26}
RG-52 Records of the Dept. of Transportation: Local and Area Transportation File {#52.1}
Reading Railroad
Although the Reading never became a subsidiary of the PRR, the State Archives does hold some materials relating to the Reading in our
Manuscript Group 199
. Do a word search through the title list for this group for the word "Reading".
In particular,
{series #199.98}
contains
mechanical engineering drawings
of Reading locomotives and rolling stock. We also received from the Penn Central a subset of architectural drawings of stations
(part 1)
(PDF)
(part 2)
(PDF) ({series #286m.254}) originally built along the Reading Line.
The
Hagley Museum and Library
in Delaware houses the largest collection of Reading documents and photographs held by any research institution, and the
Athenaeum
in Philadelphia holds drawings of Reading RR structures designed by the Wilson Brothers.
Railroad Guides
Related Resources
Anthracite Railroad Records
Baldwin Locomotive Works, MG-427
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Other Record Holders
PRR (the Pennsylvania R.R. Co.), MG-286
PRR Accidents
PRR Architectural Drawings
PRR Employee Cards
PRR Locomotive and Car Drawings
PRR, Other Record Holders
PRR Subsidiaries and Successors
Railroad Employees
Railroad Maps
Railroad Microfilm
Railroad Photographs
Railroad Record Collections