Collection Dates: 1874 -- 1989
(Bulk Dates: 1960s and 1970s)
40 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: July 2001
Addenda: May 2006
Acquisition
Note:
Access
and Restrictions:
Photographs: Boxes 1, 4,
10, 11, 13
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The James H. Windsor collection of railroadiana consists of 39.5 linear feet , includes publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, manuals, correspondence, train registers, time books, forms, tickets, and other similar material collected by James H. Windsor of Des Moines, Iowa. Almost all of the collection concerns the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, but there is also material relating to the Union Pacific Railroad.
J. Roethler and B. McCown. August 2001
Box 1 Rock Island Railroad publications
Box 2 Rock Island Railroad manuals
Box 3 Rosk Island special bulletins
Box 4 Rock Island Railroad publications
Box 5 Rock Island Railroad train registers
Box 6Time books
Box 7 Rock Island Railroad forms
Box 8 Newspaper articles and timetables, including employee timetables
Box 9 Rock Island Railroad financial and daily train records
Box 10 Rock Island Railroad publications
Box 11 Rock Island Railroad internal papers
Box 12 Rock Island Railroad manuals and time tables, including employee timetables
Box 13 Photos
Box 14 Rock Island Railroad trustee's progress reports
Box 15 Rock Island equipment standards
Box 16 Transtopics
Box 17 Railroad atlas
Box 18Rock Island Railroad publications
Box 19 Newspaper and magazine articles
Box 20 Amtrak and Union Pacific publications
Box 21 Rock Island Railroad fares and tariffs
Box 22 Old time tables, including employee timetables
Box 23 Rock Island Railroad time tables, including employee timetables
Box 24 Rock Island reports
Rock Island Railroad publications
Newspaper articles
Rock Island Railroad manuals
Rock Island Railroad special bulletins and annual reports
Charlie Grimm scrapbook
W.M. Gibbons file
Rock Island Railroad correspondence with Senate and Congress
Rock Island publications
Newspaper articles
Memoirs of Oswald W. Schindler
Rock Island Railroad train registers
Time books and trip reports of Fred B. Hoffman and possibly others
Rock Island Railroad forms
Tickets
Stamps
Envelopes
Employee information
Newspaper articles
Rock Island Railroad publications
Internal documents
Publicity materials
Old railroad pictures
Rock Island-Union Pacific Railroad merger papers
Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad time table, including employee timetables
Union Pacific time tables, including employee timetables
Train photo album
Rock Island Railroad financial and daily train records
Rock Island Railroad publications
Newspaper articles
Freight agency manuals
Blueprints
Correspondence of James H. Windsor
Rock Island Railroad internal paper
Newspaper articles
Car specifications
Rock Island Railroad manuals and time tables, including employee timetables
PostcardsNewspaper articles
Rock Island Railroad daily balance records
Internal and external publications
Rock Island Railroad trustee's program reports
Office of the superintendent papers
Standard plans
Rock Island Railroad equipment standards
Instruction manuals
Examination books
Diagrams of cars and equipment
American Railway Association telegraph and telephone section
Transtopics Iowa Department of Transportation newsletter issues
Rock Island Railroad employee newsletter issues
Chicago and Northwestern news
Other DOT items
Newspaper articles
Railroad atlas
James H. Windsor correspondence
Railway books
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad manuals
The Switching issues
Rock Island Railroad telephone directory
Yearbook of railroad facts
Many miscellaneous items
Rock Island publications
Newspaper articles
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad documents
Union Pacific-Rock Island Railroad merger information
Newspaper and magazine articles
DOT Inside magazine issues
Transtopics issues
State government railway manuals
Railroad crisis information
Amtrak and Union Pacific publications
Time and cash books
Rock Island Railroad fares and tariffs
Pullman car listing
Old time tables, including employee timetables
Posters
Brake blueprint (all oversize)
Rock Island Railroad time tables, including employee timetables
Maps
Brochures
Rock Island Railroad reports
Various subjects
Agreements
Between The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and Employees Represented by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Concerning Hours of Service and Working Conditions Between The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, The Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway Company and Joint Protective Board, CRIP Ry System Division, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
Employees time books
1978
1979
1980 -- 1983
Operators Manual, Gallery Type Suburban Card. Regional Transportation Authority. The Budd Company, Railway Division. April 1978
Pegler, Alan, Cecil J. Allen, and Trevor Bailey. Flying Scotsman. London:Ian Allen, 1969
Photograph. Train 222 Peoria Depot. Summer 1935. Engineer: Art Wortz. Included in photo: Fred Knight.
Rules and Rates of Pay, Rock Island, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and Chicago Rock Island and Gulf Railroads
For conductors, March 1, 1929
Reprint, October 1949
Reprinted to include interpretations and special agreements to June 1, 1957
For conductors and brakemen, Marh 1, 1929
Reprinted to include interpretations and special agreements to July 1969
Reprinted to include interpretations and special agreements to June, 1974
For switchmen, March 1, 1929
For Trainmen, March 1, 1929
Rules and Regulations
Consolidated Code of Operating Rules. Rules for nineteen different railroads
For Train Handling and Operation of Air Brakes, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, July 1974
Operating Department, The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, The Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company, December 15, 1930
Train Air Brake and Communication Signal Rules, Rock Island Railway, 1961
Telegraph Brevity Code
Time Return and Delay Report of Passenger Conductors and Trainmen, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago Rock Island Sbn. April to June 1980.
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