Pullman Library Collections

LF=Linear Feet; T=Tubes (Approximate)

This list will be continuously updated.

Samples from the Library (PDF)

PULLMAN (Manufacturing)

Including:

  • Pullman-Standard
  • Pullman Car & Manufacturing
  • Pullman Palace Car
  • P-S Bessemer
  • P-S Butler
  • P-S Hammond
  • P-S Road Equipment
  • Brochures [3 LF]
  • Carbuilder Magazines (P-S Internal) [8 LF]
  • Color & Design Sketches, Drawings [60 LF]
  • Documentation - Private Cars [2 LF]
  • Export Production - Butler Plant - for Brazil, Other South American countries, South Africa, Etc.
  • Facility Maps & Drawings [20 LF]
  • Facility Photographs [6+ LF]
  • Freight Car Contract Books [350 LF]
  • Freight Car Correspondence Files [150 LF]
  • Freight Car Drawings 
  • Freight Car Drawings Index [8 LF]
  • Freight Car Glass Plate Negatives [3 LF]
  • Freight Car Lot Lists [2 LF]
  • Historical Photos [20 LF]
  • Marketing Ad Copies [3 LF]
  • Marketing Films [6 LF]
  • Marketing Photographs [ 3 LF]
  • Military:
    • Armored Vehicle photos - Production & Testing [1 LF]
    • Carbuilder Articles related to Shells, Ships, Wings, Howitzers, Mortars, etc. Built by P-S & Export Cars for Service in Foreign Lands
    • Hospital Train
    • Railway Gun Carriages
    • Troop Sleepers
  • Passenger Car Documentation (Misc.)
  • Passenger Car Drawings
  • Passenger Car Drawings Index [8 LF]
  • Passenger Car Drawing Lists [25 LF]
  • Passenger Car Film Negatives [35 LF]
  • Passenger Car Film Negatives (O'Barski Collection) [30 LF]
  • Passenger Car Glass Plate Negatives [20 LF]
  • Passenger Car Glass Plate Negatives ​​​​ (O'Barski) Collection [10 LF]
  • Passenger Car Lot Lists [10 LF]
  • Passenger Car Photographs [30 LF]
  • Passenger Car Specifications [125 LF]
  • Power Car (early UP & IC Diesel Locomotives) Drawings & Images
  • Pullman Standard Motor Truck Drawings
  • Research & Development Documents, Drawings, Renderings
  • Steam Locomotive Tenders, Parts
  • Trolley, Bus & Transit Car Drawings
  • Trolley, Bus & Transit Car Lot Lists [1 LF]
  • Trolley, Bus & Transit Car Negatives [3 LF]
PULLMAN COMPANY 
(Operating)
  • Brochures [2 LF]
  • Catalogs: Materials & Supplies, Parts, Trucks, A/C, Lightweight Car Specific [9 LF]
  • Employe Instructions - Conductor, Porter [2 LF]
  • Documentation - Correspondence [5 LF]
  • Documentation - Financial Record [10 LF]
  • Descriptive Lists of Cars [5 LF]
  • Manuals - Interior Paint
  • Manuals - Pullman Maintained Car Maintenance [ 8 LF]
  • The Pullman News (Company Magazine)
  • Historical Photos [5 LF]
HASKELL & BARKER
  • Facility Drawings (Michigan City 1914 - Shop, Company Housing, Municipal Drawings
  • Facility Maps
  • Freight Car Drawing
  • Freight Car Drawing List
  • Freight Car Photographs
  • Passenger Car Parts
  • Steam Locomotive Parts
STANDARD STEEL
  • Electric Car Drawings
  • Facility Maps, Photos
  • Freight Car Drawings
  • Passenger Car Drawings
  • Siems Stembel Co. Drawings with Standard Steel
  • Steam Locomotive Tenders
  • United States Standards Drawings (USRA) cars
OSGOOD BRADLEY
  • Bus Drawings
  • Bus Drawing Lists
  • Bus Photographs [3 LF]
  • Freight Car Drawings
  • Freight Car Drawing Lists
  • Passenger Car Drawings
  • Passenger Car Drawing Lists
  • Passenger Car Photographs [5 LF]
  • Trolley Car Drawing Lists
  • Trolley Car Drawings
  • Trolley Car Photographs [2 LF]
MIDDLETOWN CAR
  • Freight Car Drawings
  • Passenger Car Drawings (export)
STANDARD MOTOR TRUCK
  • Freight Car Drawings
  • Passenger Car Drawings
  • Trolley & Transit Equipment & Powered Truck Drawings
POWER BALLASTER
  • Equipment Drawings

ISAACSON IRON WORKS
  • Equipment Drawings

BUDD

  • Airport Moving Lounges
  • Passenger Car Drawings
  • Passenger Car Drawing Lists
  • Passenger Car Job Information
  • Passenger Car Vendor Drawings
  • Test & R&D Papers & Results
  • Transit Vehicle Drawings
  • Export (Portugal, Brazil, Etc.) Vehicle Drawings
AMTRAK
  • Car Equipment Rosters
  • Drawings - Post Implementation Conversion
  • Drawings - Post HEP Conversion
  • Equipment Rosters
  • Manuals - Maintenance AmFleet I & II
  • Manuals - Maintenance Heritage Fleet
  • Manuals - Maintenance Superliner I & II
  • Manuals - Training AmFleet I & II
  • Manuals - Training Heritage Fleet
  • Manuals - Training Superliner I & II
  • Private Car Rosters
TRAILMOBILE
  • Historical Photos
  • Trailer Documentation
  • Trailer Negatives
  • Trailer Photographs
 CTA 
  • Documents - Brochures, Correspondence, Photos, Specifications
  • Equipment Drawings & Blueprints
  • Maps - System, Station
  • Historical Photos
NEW YORK CENTRAL
PENN CENTRAL
CONRAIL
AMTRAK
  • Blueprints - Cars, Lettering, Parts
  • Blueprints - Misc. Work Equipment
  • Documents - Misc. Correspondence
  • Documents - Passenger Data - Detroit
  • Documents - Passenger Specials
  • Documents - Spring & Truck Data (M. Johnson)
  • Historical Photos
  • Railroad Specifications, Shop Reports
  • Signaling Schematics / Track Layouts
Misc. Collections
  • EMD Public Relations Dept. Files
  • M. Johnson (Operations. Spring & Truck data, documents, drawings)
  • Streetcar Photos (unindexed, mostly in-service)
  • TTX Collection - Drawings, Manuals, Catalogs, Photos
RAILROAD 
  • B&O, B&OCT, C&WI Valuation Maps
  • Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Documents, Maps, Drawings, Cincinnati Car Drawings
  • CMSTP&P Profiles, Signals, Track, MOW Drawings
  • CRI&P Drawings, Photos
  • GTW/DT&I Drawings, Documents
  • IC Glass Plates Negatives, Track Profiles
  • Rule Books, Instructions, Employee & Public Timetables, Maps
  • Railroad Diagrams [7 LF]
  • Railroad Historical Society Magazines

CATALOGS

(not complete list)

  • Adams & Westlake
  • Adlake
  • Bates Steel Floor Grating
  • Cleveland Track Material
  • DELCO Light & Accessories
  • Differential (Dump) Car Co.
  • ERICO Electric Connectors
  • EXIDE Batteries
  • Federal Railway Signal
  • GD Peters Rolling Stock
  • General Electric (Signals, Accessories, Lights, Railway) 
  • General Railway Signals
  • General Signals
  • Graybar General
  • Griswold Safety Signal Co.
  • Hubbard & Co. (pole line)
  • Imperial Arc Headlights
  • Johnson Co.
  • L.B. Foster
  • Locke Insulator Co.
  • Lorain Steel Co.
  • McKeen Motor Car Co.
  • Midwest Steel Corp.
  • Ohio Brass
  • Pennsylvania RR Renewal parts
  • Pettibone Trackworks
  • Pullman Co.
  • Racine Rail Products
  • Rodger (Hart) Ballast Cars
  • Safetran Systems
  • Seattle Car & Foundry
  • Simpson Instrument
  • Square D Co.
  • SupplyCo Brake Beam
  • Union Switch & Signal
  • WABCO
  • Weir Kilby Corp.
  • Westinghouse (Brake)
  • Westinghouse (Electric Railway)
  • Western Railway Supply
  • Willamette Valley  Co. (Spikefast)
  • Young Tool & Material Co.
  • (And more!)
REFERENCE BOOKS

(over 1,000 - Highlights)

  • Barger, Ralph - A Century of Pullman Cars Vol. 1
  • Barger, Ralph - A Century of Pullman Cars Vol. 2
  • Beebe, Lucius - Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car: The Railway Carriage that Established a New Dimension of Luxury
  • Dubin, Arthur D. - Pullman Paint and Lettering Notebook
  • Dubin, Arthur D. - Some & More Classic Train
  • Husband, Joseph - The Story of the Pullman Car
  • Kratville, William - Passenger Car Catalog
  • Kratville, William - Steam, Steel & Limiteds
  • Kratvile, William, Ranks, H.E - Union Pacific Streamliners
  • Maiken, Peter T. - Night Trains
  • Randal, W. David - The Budd Company
  • Randal, W. David - The Official Pullman-Standard Library
  • Simmons-Boardman - Car Builders Cyclopedia
  • Wayner, Robert - Car Names Numbers And Consists
  • Wayner, Robert - (The) Complete Roster of Heavyweight Pullman Cars
  • Wayner, Robert - Pullman and Private Car Pictorials
  • White Jr., John H. - The American Railroad Freight Car
  • White Jr., John H. - The American Railroad Passenger Car
  • Many more - to be continued...- Indexed on TinyCat (link to be added)
 

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