Rare Books

IV. Oversize and miscellaneous items

Description: Boxes 24, 28, 29: Oversize materials. Boxes 25 and 26 contain Merrill's file cards of records of his collection. Box 27 contains commercially-produced color slides and film reels of 1950s trains.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1882-2008
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.

Oversize materials, various

Rare Books

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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Leslie Merrill's catalog cards (Box 1 of 2)

Rare Books

Leslie Merrill's personal records of items collected, on typed 3 x 5" catalog cards. It is unclear when he started or stopped making the cards or if all the items listed on the cards are present now in this collection. Merrill's personal numbering system on the cards is no longer relevant.

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Models, toys and collectibles

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): two catalogs: "The Ward Kimball Train & Toy Collection Auction Catalog" parts 1 and 2, (Noel Barrett Antiques and Auctions Ltd., May 27-28, 2005).

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Interurban rail projects; High speed train proposals and experiments, miscellaneous

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): photographs; brochures and clippings pertaining to early rapid transit systems, high speed trains and train manufacturers. Includes 1933 report: "High Speed Railway Service: Its Problems and Perplexities." (by Southern and Southwestern Railway Club, Atlanta, Georgia).

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Railway Age Magazine

Rare Books

Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains. Topics include streamlined trains; new lightweight equipment; speeds of streamlined name trains; new construction materials and structures; routes of streamliners.

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Coverdale & Colpitts Reports

Rare Books

Reports by Coverdale & Colpitts, consulting engineers: 1) "Report On High-Speed Trains Chicago-Twin Cities, June and July, 1935." ; 2) "Report On Streamline, Light-Weight, High-Speed Passenger Trains, June 30, 1938." Conclusion: "... a large proportion of the traffic on these trains has been newly created or retrieved from the highways." The facts show "great popularity and high degree of financial success" of these trains (June, 1938); 3) "Report On Streamline, Light-Weight, High-Speed Passenger Trains" (publications of 1939, 1940, 1950).

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IV. Oversize and miscellaneous items

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