Railroad Record Collections

• MG-286 Penn Central Railroad Collection(opens in a new tab)
• MG-427 Baldwin-Hamilton Company Records(opens in a new tab)
• MG-393 Pullman Standard Manufacturing Company of Butler Records(opens in a new tab)
• MG-199 Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Collections(opens in a new tab)
  (includes some Reading Railroad tracings)
• MG-274 Lehigh Valley Railroad Records(opens in a new tab)
• MG-300 Erie Lackawanna Railway Deposit(opens in a new tab)
• MG-311 Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company Records(opens in a new tab) (includes maps and structural drawings for the Lehigh & New England Railroad(opens in a new tab) tracings)
• MG-315 William Sellers and Company Records(opens in a new tab) (manufacturer of steam injectors for locomotives)
• MG-401 Delaware and Hudson Railway Company Records(opens in a new tab)
• MG-48 Fall Brook Railroad and Coal Records(opens in a new tab)
• RG-17 Records of the Land Office: Board of Canal Commissioners
  • Allegheny Portage Railroad(opens in a new tab)
    
  • Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad(opens in a new tab)
  • Gettysburg Railroad(opens in a new tab)
• RG-29 Records of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
  • South Pennsylvania Railroad(opens in a new tab)
• MG-2 Business Records Collection: Transportation and Industry
  • Bear Creek Railroad/Shenango & Allegheny Railroad(opens in a new tab)
    
  • Berks County Railroad(opens in a new tab)
    
  • Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad(opens in a new tab)
    
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad(opens in a new tab)
    
  • Midland Pennsylvania Railroad(opens in a new tab)
    
  • Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad Company(opens in a new tab)
    
• MG-11 Map Collection: Section VI: Transportation Maps(opens in a new tab)
• MG-218 General Photograph Collections: Transportation Section(opens in a new tab)
• MG-219 Philadelphia Commercial Museum Collection (photographs)(opens in a new tab)
• MG-213 Postcard Collection (opens in a new tab)
• 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}(opens in a new tab)
      * images for these and other years available online via the PennPilot project(opens in a new tab)
  • MG-416 Aero Service Corporation Photographs(opens in a new tab), [ca. 1926-1948].
  • MG-281 Samuel W. Kuhnert Papers(opens in a new tab), [ca. 1912-1976]
  • MG-425 Ebasco Environmental Company Aerial Photographs(opens in a new tab), [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}(opens in a new tab)
• RG-14 Records of the Dept. of Internal Affairs: Various Annual Report Series relating to railroads(opens in a new tab)
  (some of which may be continued in RG-37)
  • Annual Census Reports of Motor Bus and Electric Transportation Carriers {#14.6}(opens in a new tab)
  • Annual Census Reports of Railroads and Railroad Repair Establishments {#14.7}(opens in a new tab)
  • Annual Reports of Passenger and Street Railway Companies {#14.15}(opens in a new tab)
  • Annual Reports of Railroad and Street Railway Companies to the Auditor General and the Department of Internal Affairs {#14.18}(opens in a new tab)
  • Registers of Steam Railroads, Street Railways, Canals, Telegraph and Telephone Companies {#14.26}(opens in a new tab)
• RG-52 Records of the Dept. of Transportation: Local and Area Transportation File {#52.1}(opens in a new tab)
• 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(opens in a new tab). Do a word search through the title list for this group for the word "Reading".
  • In particular, {series #199.98}(opens in a new tab) 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)(opens in a new tab) (PDF) (part 2)(opens in a new tab) (PDF) ({series #286m.254}) originally built along the Reading Line.
  • The Hagley Museum and Library(opens in a new tab) in Delaware houses the largest collection of Reading documents and photographs held by any research institution, and the Athenaeum(opens in a new tab) in Philadelphia holds drawings of Reading RR structures designed by the Wilson Brothers.
    
    

Related Resources

• Anthracite Railroad Records(opens in a new tab)
• Baldwin Locomotive Works, MG-427(opens in a new tab)
• Baldwin Locomotive Works, Other Record Holders(opens in a new tab)
• PRR (the Pennsylvania R.R. Co.), MG-286(opens in a new tab)
• PRR Accidents(opens in a new tab)
• PRR Architectural Drawings(opens in a new tab)
• PRR Employee Cards(opens in a new tab)
• PRR Locomotive and Car Drawings(opens in a new tab)
• PRR, Other Record Holders(opens in a new tab)
• PRR Subsidiaries and Successors(opens in a new tab)
• Railroad Employees(opens in a new tab)
• Railroad Maps(opens in a new tab)
• Railroad Microfilm(opens in a new tab)
• Railroad Photographs(opens in a new tab)