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Railroad

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Clarence Trent Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-010
Scope and Contents

The Trent papers contain materials dealing with his activities in the ASME, the Lutheran Campus Ministry at VPI, and engineering education. Further biographical information on Trent may be found in Folder 1 and 27, the latter of which deals with the Distinguished Alumnus Certificate which Bluefield College awarded him in 1986.

Dates: 1958 - 1991

Union Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-037
Abstract

Photograph album contains 202 images from the Union Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft Company factory in Berlin, Germany, showing factory interior and exterior views, a cable car, and various company products, including meters and generators.

Dates: n.d.

United States Military Railroads Receipt

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-097
Abstract

The collection contains a United States Military Railroads receipt, issued to general freight agent William W. Tuttle at Nashville, Tennessee.

Dates: 1865

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-077
Abstract

The collection contains letters to William S. Archer discussing his election as delegate to the July 1849 convention of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company. Correspondence also discusses the plan to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via railroads.

Dates: 1849

Virginia Central Railroad Company Rental Receipt,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-043
Abstract

This collection contains a rental receipt for the labor of Isaac, an enslaved man. The receipt was issued by the Virginia Central Railroad Company in 1855 to Mrs. Elisabeth S. Lindsay and promises a payment of $175 to Lindsay after the one year rental period ends.

Dates: 1855 - 1857

Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Southern Part of Florida with Environs of Richmond & Charleston

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0027
Abstract

Map is printed in colors. It shows the states of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with insets of Richmond and Charleston, and southern Florida at a reduced scale. Contains a key that identifies various railroads and canals.

Dates: 1875

Virginian Railway Company, Amonate, Virginia, Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-113
Abstract

The collection contains several photographs from the Virginian Railway Company (later Norfolk and Western Railway—a major midwestern railroad company which operated out of Norfolk, VA).

Dates: 1942

Virginian Railway Photographs,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-015
Abstract

The collection contains 85 photographs of the Virginian Railway and 2 images from the Virginian Railway Company's Annual Report. Photograph subjects include locomotives, people (none identified), and railway accidents.

Dates: 1945-1959, undated

Wabash Railway Timetables

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-071
Abstract

This collection contains two timetables of the Wabash Railway, serving the upper mid-central United States.

Dates: 1936 - 1937

Western Half of Virginia and West Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0370
Abstract

Map comes from an Index to Virginia, and it shows various railroads that run through the western half of Virginia and West Virginia. It contains an explanatory legend as well as an index to other maps in the volume.

Dates: 1900