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CHRISTISEN RAILROAD COLLECTION
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This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the

Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu



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Box Contents List

SERIES II -- Images

Box 2

Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad

Scale drawings and black and white photographs. In oversized Box 1

Brill Intraurban. Gil Reid. In oversized Box 1

Brochure of General Motors Diesel Passenger Locomotives, 1942.

C &O (Chesapeake and Ohio Railway)

Cover from the 1951 Annual Report. In oversized Box 1

C & E I

Locomotive equipment

Black and white photographs

Cab forward freight locomotive, class AC-6. Southern Pacific. Baldwin Locomotive Works. (Alvin F. Stanfer). In oversized Box 1

Calendar Color Prints of Early Steam Locomotives -- 11 x 5 ½. See also oversized Box 1

Camelback 1880: Philadelphia & Reading Railroad

Emma, Nevada, 1885: Nevada Central

Grant 1873

PRR Class C 1872: Pennsylvania Railroad

Rapid 1860: Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad

Tank Switcher 1873: Baltimore & Potomac

Catalog of the St. Charles Car Co., 1894 and undated. In oversized Box 1

Central Pacific Railroad

Hiney, Harlan. Jupiter. In oversizsed Box 1

CMStP&P

S-2 Class, No. 218, Northern 4-8-4: ¾ frontal view, 13 x 8, February 7, 1953 (In oversized Box 1)

L2-b Class, No. 467 Mikado 2-8-2: right broadside view, 9 ½ x 5 matted print (In oversized Box 1)

Condensed track profile

Des Moines Division

Woodward to Clive, Madrid to Boone

Spencer to Des Moines

Iowa City Division

Rembrandt to Rockwell City

Manilla to Sioux City

Council Bluffs to Savannah, Illinois

Kansas City Division. Kansas City, Missouri, to Davenport, Iowa

Locomotive diagrams

Steam Locomotive Photographs in Black and White

Detlefson, Paul. In Days Gone By. In oversized Box 1

Cincinnati Union Terminal

Diagram of the terminal, passenger station yard, and approach tracks, 1933. In oversized Box 1

Equipment, tracks, and facilities, 1943. In oversized Box 1

Hudson (4-6-4) type locomotives, chart of general manufacturing specifications, North American continent

Locomotive, passenger equipment, and caboose erecting diagrams, 1932 -- 1942

Modern steam locomotives. Album of photographs

Milwaukee Road Shy Locomotive: color slide, from the movie Timberjack, Blackfoot Line, 1955. In oversized Box 1

Milwaukee Road Steam slides, No. 350 -- 407, 1972. In oversized Box 1

New York Central Railroad. Page blank, report i86, of cars run in freight train. In oversized Box 1

"Niagara" type passenger locomotive, Class 5-1b. New York Central, America Locomotive Company, 1946 (Alvin F. Stanfer). In oversized Box 1

President Warren Harding’s Funeral Train Photograph, Union Station, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, August 8, 1923, 9 x 7 (In oversized folder)

Printed ephemera

Scrapbooks

Railroads, numbers I -- V. In oversized Box 1

Steam Locomotive Black and White Sketches -- Mainline. In oversized Box 1

Brochure of Sketches

Canadian National No. 6218, 4-8-4: Northern Passenger Locomotive

Chicago & Illinois Midland No. 757, 2-10-2: Santa Fe Freight Locomotive

Missouri Pacific No. 24, 2-8-0: Consolidation Freight Locomotive

Missouri Kansas Texas No. 406, 4-6-2: Pacific Passenger Locomotive

Nickel Plate No. 759, 2-4-8: Berkshire Freight Locomotive

Pennsylvania No. 5516, 4-4-4-4: Duplex Passenger Locomotive

Southern Pacific No. 2491, 4-6-2: Pacific Passenger Locomotive


Wabash No. 606, 4-4-2: Atlantic Passenger Locomotive

Stoker fired locomotives, June 1924

Union Pacific Railroad

Hiney, Harlan. Number 19