Collection Dates: 1874 -- 1989
(Bulk Dates: 1960s and 1970s)
43 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, June 2009 , 2010
Acquisition
Note:
Access
and Restrictions:
Photographs: Boxes 1, 4,
10, 11, 13
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Department.
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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 Rock 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
Box 25 May 2006 Addendum
Box 26 2009 Addendum
Box 28 2010 Addendum
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
Postcards, Newspaper 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, March 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.
Note: This addendum also included issues of Rock Island Employee's Magazine, Rock Island Magazine, Rock Island Employee's Newsletter, The Rocket, The Rock, Midwestern Rails, American Rails, The Rock Island Digest, and The Rock Island News Digest which were added to the x collection in Special Collections.
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Former Employees. 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th revisions
Clippings. 2 folders. See also Oversized Box 2
Correspondence
Ephemera, including post cards, trading cards, menus, brochures, tickets, telegram forms, pencils, and pins
Iowa Operation Lifesaver. Speakers Guide
Manuals, lists, codes, rosters, etc. 2 folders
Maps
----. Iowa
----. Other
Miscellaneous including blueprints, a poem, schematic drawings, train orders, and other miscellany. In Oversized Box 2.
Miscellaneous publications regarding railroads, including Plan for Reorganizing Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company from the US District Court, dated December 28, 1979; The Federal Railroad Safety Program; Railroad Abandonment: What Happens: What Can an Individual Do? prepared by the Railroad Division of the Iowa Department of Transportation; How You will Benefit From the Proposed Union Pacific-Rock Island Railroad Merger and Sale of Rock Island's Southern Properties to Southern Pacific; This Is the Rock Island; "A New Start for Transit and Rail" by Hank Dittmar from Surface Transportation Policy Project Progress July/August 1997; An Economic Analysis of Upgrading Rail Branch Lines: A Study of 71 Lines in Iowa by the Iowa Department of Transportation; a brochure for the Wilson Railway Corporation of Des Moines; and single issues of Rock Island Magazine, Trains, Trains and Travel, Modern Railroads, and Fortune. (These last two are in the Oversized Box 2.)
----. The Inter-Urban Railway between Des Moines, Colfax, Mitchellville, Altoona, Perry, Woodward, and Granger
The Rock Telephone Directory
Rock Island: Annual Report to the Stockholders
----. 1949
----. 1950
----. 1952
----. 1953
Rock Island: The Road of Planned Progress. Manual of Information For Use of Guests on Investor's Special, Chicago-Dallas and Return, March 16, 17, and 18, 1955.
Rock Island Technical Society
----. Calendars (2002 calendar is in Oversized Box 2)
Box 27
----. Company store inventory
----. Data sheets
----. Membership directory, 1997- 2000
----. Miscellaneous mailings
Status Report on Railroad Abandonments in Iowa
----. 1980-1990
----. 1990-2001
Timetables
Note: See also Oversized Box 2 for Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern and Chicago Rock Island and Pacific timetables
----. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
----. Burlington Northern
----. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway
----. Chicago and Great Northwestern Railway Company
----. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
----. Chicago and Northwestern Railway
----. Chicago Rock Island and Pacific
----. Davenport Rock Island & North Western Railway Company
----. Illinois Central Railroad
----. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
----. Iowa Interstate Railroad
----. Newton and Northwestern Railroad Company
----. Soo Line Railroad Company
----. Union Pacific Railroad Company
---. Slides with indexes
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