Rare Books

Manufacturers: Various, A - M

Description: Brochures and publications for: Baldwin Locomotive Works; Clark Equipment Company; Edwards Railway Motor Car Co.; Fairbanks-Morse; Four Wheel Drive Auto Company; Lima Locomotive Works; Micheline.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938-1973
Call number: 646607
Creator: Merrill, Leslie O(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Leslie O. Merrill, 1976-2008.
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Manufacturers: Various, N - Z

Rare Books

Brochures and publications for: Pressed Steel Car Company; Sikorsky Aircraft, Division of United Aircraft (TurboTrain); United Aircraft; Westinghouse Air Brake Company.

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Early "streamline" inventions - Various

Rare Books

Includes materials on: Frederick U. Adams, and his "Windsplitter." Built by B&O in Baltimore, and patented in early 1893. Smooth and continuous exterior surfaces. Includes photographs and copies of patent documents for "Railway Car And Train" with drawings and text (1893). Also materials on "Air and Atmosphere Cars"; Thomas McBride's "Observatory Cars" (1891); E.Y. Robbins Cylindrical Iron and Steel Safety Car pamphlet (copy) and photograph (1888); David G. Weems -"Needle Point" locomotive drawings and photographs; patent applications by W.B. Jupp (1927, Car Body), Charles H. Davis (1897, Electric-Railway Car), George J. Capewell (1900, Railway-Car Body); pamphlet and clippings on Sir Henry Bessemer.

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U.S. Design patents

Rare Books

Copies of various aerodynamic car patent filings: Norman Bel Geddes, Railway Car (1934); George W. Walker, Locomotive. Futuristic, bullet shaped (1945); John Markestein. Locomotive Body (1945); Donald W. Doman, Alfred B. Girardy, Ralph E. Meyers. Observation Car Body for Pullman-Standard (1951); many others.

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Early "streamline" inventions - William Riley McKeen Jr. - McKeen Motor Car

Rare Books

Assorted articles, letters, diagrams, drawings, photographs, rosters about the McKeen Motor Cars and the company that built them. McKeen was superintendent of motive power for Union Pacific and in 1905, designed a gasoline-powered motor car for short branch lines. In 1908 the McKeen Motor Car Co. was formed, creating "streamlined" cars for various railroads. Includes copy of patent application for McKeen's design (1907). [This is probably the M-10 model]; blueprint of cross section and side view of McKeen Car no. 7 (June 4, 1912); color snapshots of McKeen's former house in Santa Barbara, Ca. (2005); spiral bound booklet - "Virginia & Truckee Railway, McKeen Motor Car No. 2, Restoration Feasibility Investigation." Prepared for the Nevada State Railroad Museum by Stephen E. Drew. Published by Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum (1997). Illustrations, drawings, plans.

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Virginia and Truckee Railway; Virginian Railway

Rare Books

Includes photographs. Materials relating to McKeen motor cars: 17 snapshots of a silver, derelict, McKeen motor car in Helper, Utah (1952); 14 photos of other McKeen motor car derelicts, some in process of being made into the "Super Chief Diner" in Carson City, Nevada, (1941, 1952, 1966); color photographic postcard of the "Super Chief Diner, Highway 395, Carson City, Nevada." On back: "Formerly car #22 of the fabulous Virginia & Truckee Railway."

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Southern Pacific Railroad Company

Rare Books

Includes train(s): Daylight. Includes (selected items): set of 10 blueprints: Elevations and floor plans of the Daylight locomotive and each car of the train. Locomotive class GS-2. Revised early 1937.

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