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Allen (Charles M.) Railroad Collection, 1913-1995
Author
Processed by: Carrie Daniels; machine-readable finding aid created by:Eric Weig
Title
Allen (Charles M.) Railroad Collection
Date
1913-1995
Repository
University of Louisville Archives and Records CenterLouisville, KY 40292
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research
Preferred Citation Note
[Identification of item], Charles M. Allen Railroad Collection, 1913-1995, University Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville, Louisville.
Extent
6.75 Linear feet
Biography/History
Louisville native and railroad enthusiast Charles M. Allen (1916-2000) was born into a wealthy family, graduated from Yale University in 1941 and from the University of Louisville Law School in 1943. After several years of private practice he served as an assistant U.S. attorney. He returned to private practice, then from 1961 to 1971 he served in an elected position to the chancery branch of Jefferson County Circuit Court. In 1971 he was appointed to the federal bench by President Richard Nixon, a position Allen held until his retirement in 1996. On the bench he became known for his fairness and his commitment to equal justice for all. Allen died in January 2000 and was survived by his wife Bettye Cardwell Allen; their two children, Charles Dwight Allen and Angela M. Allen; and six grandchildren.
Judge Allen was also known for his love of railroads, a fascination that began in his childhood. He was a charter member of the Kentucky Railway Museum, serving as legal counsel and president of the organization at various times in its history. He collected railroad timetables, photographs, as well as guides and other publications, all of which were donated to the University of Louisville upon his death. Published monographs and serials were added to the Ekstrom Library's general collection and other material came to the University Archives and Records Center.
Scope and Content
This 6.25 linear foot collection of railroad material dates from 1913 to 1995 with the bulk of the collection consisting of railroad timetables. There is also a small, but significant number of guides, maps, operating rules, pamphlets and brochures, annual reports, railroad histories, yearbooks, and photographs. Although most of the collection is from North American railroads, there is some material related to railroading in Europe. The collection is arranged in seven series: I: Timetables (5.25 linear feet); II: Maps (.10 linear feet); III: Operating Rules (.10 linear feet); IV: Engine Summaries (.05 linear feet); V: Publications (.25 linear feet); VI: Printed Material and Ephemera (.25 linear feet); and VII: Photographs (.25 linear feet). Most material is arranged alphabetically within each series, with a chronological sub-listing.
Collection Inventory
I: Timetables (Boxes 1-5) 1913-1994, 5.25 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:Series I makes up the bulk of this collection and includes passenger, operating and general timetables for North American and European railroads.
Amtrak - national and regional, 1971-1995
[box: 1, folder: 1]Alton, 1929, 1933-1934, 1944, 1946
[box: 1, folder: 2]Atlantic Coast Line, 1930, 1935, 1942-1943, 1946, 1956, 1961-1963, 1965-1966
[box: 1, folder: 2]Atlanta & West Point, 1929, 1947
[box: 1, folder: 2]Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 1924, 1934-1935, 1938, 1941, 1943-1945, 1947, 1958-1961, 1963
[box: 1, folder: 3]Baltimore & Ohio, 1924, 1929, 1935, 1937-1938, 1941
[box: 1, folder: 4]Baltimore & Ohio, 1947, 1954-1955, 1958-1959
[box: 1, folder: 5]Boston & Maine, 1931, 1945-1946, 1955-1956
[box: 1, folder: 6]Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, 1931
[box: 1, folder: 6]Burlington, 1928-1929, 1934-1935, 1943, 1946, 1954-1955, 1957-1962, 1964, 1966-1967
[box: 1, folder: 7]BCRail, 1988
[box: 1, folder: 8]Canadian National, 1945, 1959-1962
[box: 1, folder: 8]Canadian Pacific, 1934, 1947, 1953, 1955-1958, 1965
[box: 1, folder: 8]Central of Georgia, 1936, 1947, 1954, 1957-1958, 1966-1967
[box: 1, folder: 9]Central Railroad of New Jersey, 1935
[box: 1, folder: 9]Central Vermont, 1957
[box: 1, folder: 9]Chesapeake & Ohio, 1924, 1936, 1938, 1946-1947, 1952, 1954-1955, 1968
[box: 1, folder: 9]Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio combined schedules, n.d., 1966-1967, 1970
[box: 1, folder: 9]Chicago & Eastern Illinois, 1929, 1944, 1947, 1958
[box: 1, folder: 10]Chicago Great Western, 1936, 1948
[box: 1, folder: 10]Chicago, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, 1935-1936, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1959
[box: 1, folder: 10]Chicago & Northwestern, 1929, 1938, 1944, 1947, 1954, 1960-1961
[box: 1, folder: 11]Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, 1942, 1958
[box: 1, folder: 11]Chicago & Southern, 1944, 1964-1965
[box: 1, folder: 11]Delaware & Hudson, 1936, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1959
[box: 1, folder: 11]Denver & Rio Grande Western, 1934, 1941, 1945-1947, 1955, 1957, 1959
[box: 1, folder: 11]Erie, 1929, 1931, 1945, 1954, 1956
[box: 1, folder: 12]Erie-Lackawana, 1962
[box: 1, folder: 12]Florida Eastcoast, 1935, 1945, 1947
[box: 1, folder: 12]Frisco Lines (St. Louis-San Francisco), 1945, 1948, 1951, 1958, 1962
[box: 1, folder: 12]Grand Trunk (Canadian National), 1949, 1951
[box: 1, folder: 12]Great Northern, 1929, 1945-1946
[box: 1, folder: 12]Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, 1953, 1956
[box: 1, folder: 13]Illinois Central, 1929, 1935-1936, 1946-1948, 1951, 1954-1956, 1960, 1962, 1965
[box: 1, folder: 13]Kansas City Southern, 1946, 1960-1961, 1966
[box: 2, folder: 1]Lackawanna, 1935-1936, 1941, 1943-1944, 1947, 1950
[box: 2, folder: 1]Lehigh Valley, 1934, 1936, 1947, 1957-1958 Long Island, 1957
[box: 2, folder: 1]Louisville & Nashville, 1918, 1925, 1930, 1935-1937, 1945, 1947-1948, 1951, 1953
[box: 2, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, 1954-1963, 1965, 1967-1968, 1971
[box: 2, folder: 3]Maine Central, 1947, 1956-1957
[box: 2, folder: 4]Milwaukee Road, n.d., 1931, 1935-1936, 1953, 1955
[box: 2, folder: 4]Missouri-Kansas-Texas, 1931, 1935, 1945-1948, 1951, 1953
[box: 2, folder: 5]Monon Route, 1936, 1942, 1947-1948, 1964, 1967
[box: 2, folder: 5]Missouri Pacific, 1934-1936, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1959, 1966
[box: 2, folder: 6]Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, 1943, 1947, 1951, 1954
[box: 2, folder: 7]National Railways of Mexico, 1959-1960
[box: 2, folder: 7]New York, New Haven & Hartford, 1929-1931, 1935-1936, 1944-1945, 1947, 1955-1956, 1962
[box: 2, folder: 7]New York Central Lines, 1929-1931, 1934-1935
[box: 2, folder: 8]New York Central Lines, 1937-1939, 1941-1943
[box: 2, folder: 9]New York Central Lines, 1944-1948, 1950
[box: 2, folder: 10]New York Central Lines, 1952-1958, 1960, 1966
[box: 2, folder: 11]Nickel Plate Road, 1931, 1944, 1947, 1955
[box: 2, folder: 12]Norfolk & Western, 1929, 1935, 1943-1944, 1947-1948, 1951, 1954-1959, 1965, 1967
[box: 2, folder: 12]Northern Pacific, 1929-1930, 1934, 1947, 1953, 1958, 1962
[box: 2, folder: 13]Ontario Northland, 1957
[box: 2, folder: 13]Pere Marquette, 1946
[box: 2, folder: 13]Pennsylvania Lines, 1913, 1929, 1935-1939, 1945
[box: 2, folder: 14]Pennsylvania Lines, 1946-1948, 1950-1951, 1953-1954
[box: 2, folder: 15]Pennsylvania Lines, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1965-1966
[box: 2, folder: 16]Penn Central, 1968-1971
[box: 2, folder: 16]Reading, 1929, 1935, 1947
[box: 3, folder: 1]Rock Island, n.d., 1924, 1938, 1942-1943, 1947, 1950, 1954, 1956-1959, 1962
[box: 3, folder: 1]Rutland, 1935, 1945
[box: 3, folder: 1]Seaboard, 1935-1936, 1948, 1950, 1958, 1967, 1976
[box: 3, folder: 2]SOO Lines, 1939, 1953, 1962
[box: 3, folder: 2]Southern, 1930, 1933-1934, 1937-1938, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1954, 1968
[box: 3, folder: 3]Southern Pacific, 1932, 1936, 1941-1942, 1945, 1954, 1958
[box: 3, folder: 3]Southwest, 1936, 1943, 1947
[box: 3, folder: 4]Spokane, Portland & Seattle, 1962-1963
[box: 3, folder: 4]Terminal RR Association, 1929
[box: 3, folder: 4]Union Pacific, 1929-1930, 1935, 1938, 1943, 1946-1948, 1953
[box: 3, folder: 5]Union Pacific, 1952-1954, 1958, 1960
[box: 3, folder: 6]VIA, 1979, 1985-1986
[box: 3, folder: 6]Wabash, n.d., 1945, 1947, 1951-1953, 1957-1958
[box: 3, folder: 6]Western Pacific, n.d
[box: 3, folder: 6]Through Europe by Train, Timetables valid from May 31st until September 26th, 1970
[box: 3, folder: 7]Cook's Continental Timetable, March 1971
[box: 3, folder: 7]Cook's Continental Timetable, May 1-27, 1972
[box: 3, folder: 8]British Railways Passenger Service Timetables
[box: 3, folder: 9]Scotland, 1961-1962, 1963
[box: 3, folder: 9]London, the Midlands, North Wales, the North, 1963
[box: 3, folder: 9]British Railways Passenger Service Timetables
[box: 3, folder: 10]London, Eastern Counties, East Midlands, the North, 1963
[box: 3, folder: 10]Northeastern England, 1963
[box: 3, folder: 10]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., January 1930
[box: 3, folder: 11]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., March 1941
[box: 4, folder: 1]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., September 1942
[box: 4, folder: 2]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., May 1946
[box: 4, folder: 3]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., July 1947
[box: 4, folder: 4]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., April 1954
[box: 4, folder: 5]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., May 1955
[box: 4, folder: 6]The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, New York: National Railway Publication Co., June 1968
[box: 4, folder: 7]Operating Timetables
[box: 5, folder: 1]Atlanta Coastline, 1964
[box: 5, folder: 1]Atlanta & West Point, 1955
[box: 5, folder: 1]Burlington Northern, Portland Division, 1970
[box: 5, folder: 1]Erie, Western District Marion Division, 1947
[box: 5, folder: 1]New York Central, Ohio Central Division, 1951
[box: 5, folder: 1]Nickel Plate, Buffalo & Cleveland Divisions, 1952
[box: 5, folder: 1]Southern, Georgia & Florida Railway, 1955
[box: 5, folder: 1]Southern, Western Division, 1974
[box: 5, folder: 1]Southern, Western Lines, 1949, 1953
[box: 5, folder: 1]Union Pacific, Northwestern District, 1975
[box: 5, folder: 1]Wabash, Decatur Division, 1947
[box: 5, folder: 1]Operating Timetables
[box: 5, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, Birmingham Division, 1964
[box: 5, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, Cincinnati Division, 1952, 1955
[box: 5, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, Eastern Kentucky Division, 1954
[box: 5, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, Knoxville & Atlanta Division, 1954
[box: 5, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, Louisville Division, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1976, 1981
[box: 5, folder: 2]Louisville & Nashville, Fast Freight Schedules, 1954-1955
[box: 5, folder: 2]Pennsylvania, Central Region, 1966
[box: 5, folder: 3]Pennsylvania, Middle Division, 1946
[box: 5, folder: 3]Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Division, 1951
[box: 5, folder: 3]Union Pacific, No. 2, 1978
[box: 5, folder: 3]II: Maps (Box 5) 1952, .10 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:One folder with a 1952 atlas.
Handy Railroad Atlas of the United States, New York: Rand McNally, 1952
[box: 5, folder: 4]Missouri Pacific-Texas and Pacific Sunshine Route, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota, [1883]
[box: 5, folder: 4]SCL/L & N Georgia-Clinchfield West Point Route, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]L & N System in USA, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Co., n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Kentucky railroads, 1915
[box: 5, folder: 4]Railroad map of the United States for men in uniform, 1944
[box: 5, folder: 4]Northern Pacific North Coast Limited map of the United States, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Southern Railway System, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]California State Railroad map, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Train Watcher's map of Chicago, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Reading Railroad System map, 1947
[box: 5, folder: 4]National Geographic map of Europe, 1969
[box: 5, folder: 4]Preliminary Mainline and Branchline Designations for Class I Railroads, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 4]Santa Clara County Transit System, 1992
[box: 5, folder: 4]III: Operating Rules (Box 5) 1962-1974, .10 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:One folder with federal governmental rules and a notebook.
Louisville & Nashville, Rules for the Government of the Transportation Department, 1962
[box: 5, folder: 5]Louisville & Nashville, Rules of the Operating Department, 1964
[box: 5, folder: 5]Interstate Commerce Commission, Finance Docket 22688, Chicago & North Western Railway Company-Control-Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, Washington DC: GPO, 1974
[box: 5, folder: 5]Notebook with handwritten notes, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 5]IV: Engine Summaries (Box 5) 1953, .05 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:One folder.
Louisville & Nashville Engine Summaries, 1953
[box: 5, folder: 6]V: Publications (Box 5) 1934-1995, .25 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:Eight folders with annual reports, brochures and pamphlets, yearbooks of railroad information, summaries, historical and public relations items.
Publications - Annual Reports
[box: 5, folder: 7]Canadian Pacific, 1964
[box: 5, folder: 7]Great Western, 1949
[box: 5, folder: 7]Kansas City Southern, 1964
[box: 5, folder: 7]New York Central, 1942, 1946
[box: 5, folder: 7]Union Pacific, 1995
[box: 5, folder: 7]Brochures and Pamphlets, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 8] Scope and Contents note:Alaska Railroad, American European Express, Big Four (NY Central), California Zephyr, Canadian Pacific, Chesapeake & Ohio, "The Cincinnatian" (B & O), "City of Kansas City" (Wabash), "City of New Orleans" (Illinois Central), the Denver Zephyr, Empire Builder (Great Northern), Erie, Florida East Coast, Mississippi Scenic Route (Burlington), New England Direct, North Coast Limited (Northern Pacific), "Olympian" and "Olympian Hiawatha" (C, M, St. P, & P), Rio Grande, Rock Island, "San Joaquin Daylight" (S-P), Santa Fe, "Southern Crescent (Southern), Southern Pacific, Union Pacific
Yearbook of Railroad Information, 1934, 1960, 1978
[box: 5, folder: 9]Summary of Equipment - Baltimore & Ohio, 1953
[box: 5, folder: 9]Brochures and booklets - Burlington, n.d.; Grand Trunk Western, 1972; Great Western (England), n.d
[box: 5, folder: 9]Histories and Public Relations materials, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 10] Scope and Contents note:Burlington Northern, Conrail, CSX, Lehigh Valley, London & Southwestern Railroad, L & N, Milwaukee Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, SOO, "The Sunshine Special" Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific.
Publications - Industry and company publications
[box: 5, folder: 11]B & O Magazine, vol.46, no.2, February 1960
[box: 5, folder: 11]Info Magazine (Union Pacific Railroad), June 1989
[box: 5, folder: 11]Keeping Track (Canadian National Railways), vol.2, no.11, November 1959; vol.3, no.10, November 1960
[box: 5, folder: 11]Main Line News (Illinois Ce ntral Gulf Railroad), July/August 1985
[box: 5, folder: 11]Missabe Iron Ranger (Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Company), April 1961; vol.59, no.9, Fall 1974
[box: 5, folder: 11]Norfolk and Western Magazine, vol.34, no.1, October 1956
[box: 5, folder: 11]Texas Railways (Texas Railroad Association), vol.18, no.1, Winter 1977
[box: 5, folder: 11]Publications - U.S. magazines
[box: 5, folder: 12]Flags, Diamonds and Statues, vol.2, nos.3 & 4, Spring 1978
[box: 5, folder: 12]Live Steam, vol.22, no.10, October 1988
[box: 5, folder: 12]Locomotive Quarterly, vol.II, no.2, Winter 1977/1978
[box: 5, folder: 12]Modern Railroads, May 1989
[box: 5, folder: 12]Rail Classics, vol.6, no.5, September 1977
[box: 5, folder: 12]RailFair News, First Edition, 1990; Second Edition, 1990; Third Edition, 1990; Fourth Edition, 1991
[box: 5, folder: 12]Publications - U.S. magazines
[box: 5, folder: 13]Railpace Newsmagazine, vol.12, no.1, January 1993
[box: 5, folder: 13]Railroading in St. Louis, Summer 1990 (2 copies)
[box: 5, folder: 13]Railroads Illustrated, vol.1, no.2, Winter 1981
[box: 5, folder: 13]Railway Age, vol.90, no.20, May 16, 1931; vol.175, no.17, September 9, 1974
[box: 5, folder: 13]Railway Progress, May 1958
[box: 5, folder: 13]Rail Travel News, vol.5, no.2, January 1975
[box: 5, folder: 13]Steel Rails, June 12, 1953; July 24, 1953; August 28, 1953
[box: 5, folder: 13]Trackside, no.1, [1988]
[box: 5, folder: 13]Trainline, no.20, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 13]Publications - Non-US
[box: 5, folder: 14]The Locomotive Railway Carriage & Wagon Review, January 1956
[box: 5, folder: 14]Lok Magazin, August 1970
[box: 5, folder: 14]Rail Express, November 1999
[box: 5, folder: 14]Railway Magazine, April and December 1990
[box: 5, folder: 14]The Yeoman Enterprise, supplement, April 1990
[box: 5, folder: 14]Railway World, April 1974, June 1996
[box: 5, folder: 14]Trains, November 1981
[box: 5, folder: 14]Trains Illustrated, September 1959
[box: 5, folder: 14]VI: Printed Material and Ephemera (Box 5) no date, .50 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:Five folders with information on travel, railroad museums, tourist rail lines, postcards, calendars, programs, and tickets.
Travel Information, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 15] Scope and Contents note:Britain, Gripsholm Cruise, Ireland, London, Nantucket, Oregon, Tanglewood, York, Washington, DC.
Railroad Museums and Tourist Rail Lines, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 16] Scope and Contents note:Brochures and postcards
non-United States railroads, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 17]Postcards, calendars, programs, tickets, n.d
[box: 5, folder: 18] Scope and Contents note:Arkansas Railroad Club, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago Railroad Fair, National Railway Historical Society, Union Pacific, Wabash
Don Ball, Jr. Railroad Calendar, 1985
[box: 5]VII: Photographs (Box 6) no date, .50 linear feet
Scope and Contents note:Four folders of black and white and color photographs, postcards, negatives, and slides, mainly of steam locomotives.
Photographs steam locomotives, n.d
[box: 6, folder: 1] Scope and Contents note:3x5 black and white, Atlantic Coast Line through Western Maryland
Photographs mainly steam locomotives, n.d
[box: 6, folder: 2] Scope and Contents note:5x7 and 5x8 black and white
Photographs mainly steam locomotives, n.d
[box: 6, folder: 3] Scope and Contents note:8x10 black and white and color, 4x10 black and white, 4x7 black and white, 2 x 7 black and white
Photographs and postcards, n.d
[box: 6, folder: 4] Scope and Contents note:3x3 black and white, 3 x 5 color, Color slide and negative
Trains Album of Photographs, circa 1945
[box: 6] Scope and Contents note:B & O Railroad, Eastern Railroads, Erie Railroad, Far Western Railroads, Midwestern Railroads, Modern Steam Locomotives, New England Railroads, Southern Pacific Lines
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Table of Contents
- Author
- Title
- Date
- Repository
- Conditions Governing Access note
- Preferred Citation Note
- Extent
- Biography/History
- Scope and Content
- Collection Inventory:
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I: Timetables (Boxes 1-5) 1913-1994, 5.25 linear feet
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II: Maps (Box 5) 1952, .10 linear feet
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III: Operating Rules (Box 5) 1962-1974, .10 linear feet
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IV: Engine Summaries (Box 5) 1953, .05 linear feet
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V: Publications (Box 5) 1934-1995, .25 linear feet
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VI: Printed Material and Ephemera (Box 5) no date, .50 linear feet
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VII: Photographs (Box 6) no date, .50 linear feet
