Rare Books

Canada: Canadian Pacific

Description: Includes train(s): The Canadian; others. Includes (selected items): photographs; manufacturers brochures: Budd RDC, Budd Dome Car, Budd delivers 173 various cars, Electromet (metals) (1950s).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938-1955
Call number: 646607
Creator: Merrill, Leslie O(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Leslie O. Merrill, 1976-2008.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Canada: Shorter Canadian railroads; Excursion and touring trains

Rare Books

Includes materials on: Ontario Northland; Quebec Central; Quebec North Shore and Labrador; Dominion Atlantic; Pacific Great Eastern; British Columbia Railway; others. Book: "The Budd RDC in Canada" by Raymond Corley (1967).

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Canada: Canadian National

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Includes booklet only (disbound): "CN Passenger Car Equipment, Passenger Sales and Services, Passenger Equipment Development." Inside: "This book has been produced as a guide to passenger sales and services." Summary of Canadian National Passenger Equipment (5 p.), diagrams and information on cars (152 p.), alphabetical listing of named cars (12 p.). Includes 36 pages of b/w photos. (Headquarters: Montreal, 1967).

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Canada: Canadian Pacific

Rare Books

Includes train(s): The Canadian; The Royal York; The Dominion. Includes brochures: "Announcing The Royal York, new lightweight, semi-streamlined, steam train with air-conditioned coaches between Toronto and Detroit." Jubilee locomotive described (1936); "The Canadian Streamliner and other Canadian Pacific Equipment." (1960s); "Trains...and the travelling public. CP Rail." Describes CP's efforts to discontinue "uneconomic passenger services" (1960s).

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Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company; Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway; Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company; Erie Railroad Company

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Includes train(s): The Lake Cities; Erie Limited; Atlantic Express; The Phoebe Snow. Includes photographs. Includes (selected items): one item for DM&IR: 1957 letter and photograph of Budd RDC coach car. One item for EJ&ER: 1947 letter and freight diesel bulletin. Several items for Erie railroads.

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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Includes train(s): North Coast Limited; The Mainstreeter. Includes (selected items): copy of large fold-out blueprint of Dome Coach Passenger Car (1953).

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Southern Pacific Railroad Company

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Includes train(s): Lark; Starlight; Senator; Del Monte; Sacramento RDC.

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