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Partial Guide to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company Records, 1895-1991
Special Collections M1010
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Title: Southern Pacific Railroad Company Records,
Date (inclusive): 1895-1991
Collection number: Special Collections M1010
Creator:
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Extent:
ca. 2829 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: This collection comprises the Board Minutes of the Southern Pacific Railroad and its subsidiaries, Mechanical Department plans
and specifications of the rolling stock of the Southern Pacific and its subsidiaries, the Valuation Department records documenting
financial transactions and value of the rolling stock of the company.
Language:
English.
A portion of the Mechanical Division drawings are stored off-site; access to these materials may require as much as two weeks.
All other materials described in this finding aid are available for use without restriction.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
[Identification of item], Southern Pacific Railroad Company Records, M1010, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Gift of Union Pacific Railroad, 1998.
The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles
Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California
and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and
took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme
Court in an anti-trust case. During World War II, the Southern Pacific Co. played a major role in military transportation
in the US, transporting personal, and equipment along the west coast. In 1983, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads announced
their intentions to merge and organize company into the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation, but the merger was rejected
in 1987. In 1996, the Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, making Union Pacific the largest railroad in the United States.
Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation
maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern
Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Central Pacific Railway Company.
Ferrocarril Sud Pacífico de Mexico.
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company.
San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Company.
Southern Pacific Company.
Southern Pacific Transportation Company.
Sunset Magazine (Firm)
Railroads--Mexico.
Railroads--United States.
- AP
- Atlantic Pacific Railroad
- AS
- Alton Southern Railroad
- ALCO
- American Locomotive Company
- ALCOA
- Aluminum Company of America
- ATSF
- Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe
- ATT
- American Telephone & Telegraph Company
- BMR
- Burlington Missouri River
- BBBamp;C
- Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, Colorado Railway
- BN
- Burlington Northern
- BTR
- Bureau of Transportation
- Burlington
- Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad
- CEI
- Chicago Eastern Illinois Railroad
- CNW
- Chicago North Western System
- CBQ
- Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad
- CMStP
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
- COFC
- Container on Flat Car
- Cotton Belt
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway
- CP
- Central Pacific Railroad
- CRIP
- Chicago, Rock Island, Pacific Railroad
- CTC
- Centralized Traffic Control
- DRGW
- Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad
- EMD
- Electro Motive Division of General Motors
- EPSW
- El Paso & Southwestern Railway
- Frisco
- St. Louis San Francisco Railroad ; St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
- GE
- General Electric Company
- GHSA
- Galveston, Harrisburg, San Antonio Railway
- GM
- General Motors Corporation
- GN
- Great Northern Railway
- GTE
- General Telephone & Electronic Corporation
- GWTP
- Gulf, Western Texas, & Pacific Railway
- HTC
- Houston Texas Central Railroad
- HEWT
- Houston, East West Texas Railway
- IBM
- International Business Machines
- IC
- Illinois Central Railroad
- ICC
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Katy
- Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
- KCS
- Kansas City Southern
- LN
- Louisiana Nashville
- LCL
- Less-than-Carload
- MStL
- Minneapolis St. Louis Railroad
- MCI
- Microwave Communications Incorporated
- Milwaukee
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Pacific Railroad
- M-K-T
- Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railraod
- MLT
- Morgan's Louisiana Texas Railroad Steamship Co.
- MoPac
- Missouri Pacific Railroad
- Morgan Lines
- Southern Pacific Steamship Lines
- NCO
- Nevada-California-Oregon Railway
- NP
- Northern Pacific Railroad
- NS
- Norfolk Southern
- NWP
- Northwestern Pacific Railroad
- NYC
- New York Central System
- ORN
- Oregon Railroad Navigation Company
- OW
- Oregon Washington
- PE
- Phoenix Eastern Railroad
- PE
- Pacific Electric Railways
- PFE
- Pacific Fruit Express Company
- PMT
- Pacific Motor Trucking Company
- PRR
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Rio Grande
- Denver Rio Grande Railroad ; Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad
- Rock Island
- Chicago, Rock Island, Pacific Railroad
- RPO
- Rail Post Office
- Santa Fe
- Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe
- SAP
- San Antonio Aransas Pass Railway
- SCL
- Seaboard Coast Line
- SDA
- San Diego Arizona Railway
- SDAE
- San Diego Arizona Eastern Railway
- Seaboard
- Seaboard Coast LineSan Diego Arizona Railway
- SFSP
- Santa Fe Southern Pacific
- SP
- Southern Pacific
- SPS
- Spokane, Portland Seattle
- SPCC
- Southern Pacific Communications Company
- SPID
- Southern Pacific Island Development Company
- SPdeMex
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico
- SPPL
- Southern Pacific Pipe Line Company
- SPTCo
- Southern Pacific Transportation Company
- SSW
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway
- TL
- Texas Louisiana Lines
- TNO
- Texas New Orleans Railway
- TP
- Texas Pacific Railway
- TOFC
- Trailer on Flat Car
- TOPS
- Total Operations Processing
- TRRA
- Terminal Railraod Association of St. Louis
- UP
- Union Pacific Railroad
- VT
- Virginia Truckee Railroad
- WP
- Western Pacific Railroad
Creator:
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp.
Title: Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. Records
Identifier/Call Number: M0015
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Creator:
Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
Title: Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Drawings and maps, ca. 1930-1968
Identifier/Call Number: Mss Prints 0007
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Creator:
Southern Pacific Transportation Co.
Title: Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Records,
Date (inclusive): 1936-1954
Identifier/Call Number: JL015
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