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All items in this box are 15 x 18 inches or smaller and include railroad pamphlets; advertising prints and clippings from 1940s magazines; and Leslie Merrill's scrapbook of streamliner clippings (1934-1938). The box includes photographs. Materials on Western Maryland Railway Company's fast freight line (1952?); "Train Album of Photographs: Railroads of Chicago" (1950); California Zephyr Vista-Dome brochure; General Motors' diesel "Train of Tomorrow"; California Western Railroad "Skunk Train" broadsides; Pullman-Standard Company portfolio of print advertisements, "Tops in Streamliners" (1941); Western Pacific Railroad Company Finance docket 25784, California Zephyr Advertising and Promotions (1968-1969); American Locomotive Company (Alco) line of diesel-electric engines; Two photographs of the Pioneer Zephyr (1949); color promotional illustrations of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad streamliner trains; Amtrak promotional train display (1970s?); and tearsheets of advertisements from magazines (1940s).
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Contains one scrapbook, "Articles concerning Meigs Railway at Philadelphia" (1888). Fragile condition.
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Early "streamline" inventions - Joe V. Meigs - Meigs Elevated Railway
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Joseph "Joe" V. Meigs of Lowell, Massachusetts submitted an application in 1884 to patent a steam-powered, "post-supported" elevated monorail train intended for rapid transit use in Boston. Materials include: U.S. Patent Office report. Joe V. Meigs. "Railway" drawings and specifications (18 p., 1885); "General (George) Stark's Report, Meigs Elevated Railway, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners." (1887); "A Condensed Review of Rapid Transit and the Meigs Elevated Railway, Prepared For The Legislature of 1888" by the Meigs Co. (1888); "Rapid Transit Made Plain; Interrogations propounded by a Member of the Legislature to Capt. Joe V. Meigs, And By Him Answered." Testimony with drawings (1894); prospectus titled "Complements of Meigs Elevated Railway Construction Co...." Inside, "An Account of Progress." (1886); "Memorandum of the visit to Boston of the Committee on Railroads... of the City of Philadelphia.... to inspect... the Meigs [Railway]." (1887); printed report by H. Haupt, Consulting Engineer. On back: Printed request by Meigs for information on legality of his design and Judge Thomas Russell's reply (1883); copy photographs of the Meigs railway and demonstration site in East Cambridge, Mass.; clippings, ordinances from 1880s newspapers (from a scrapbook once owned by Meigs).
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
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Includes train(s): Pioneer Zephyr; Twin Zephyr; Kansas City Zephyr; American Royal Zephyr.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
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Includes train(s): General Pershing Zephyr; Silver Streak; Texas Zephyr; Zephyr Rockets; Nebraska Zephyr; Ak-Sar-Ben. Includes (selected items): "General Pershing" Zephyr train brochure signed by Pershing (1940).
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
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Includes train(s): Ozark State Zephyr; Sam Houston Zephyr; Mark Twain Zephyr.
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