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Title: Control Tower
Date: 1940-04-28
Description: Photograph from inside the control tower south of Union Station. A worker looks out over the railway lines as a train passes.

Title: Classification Storage Area
Date: 1942-09-18
Description: View of classification, storage and receiving yard. Taken looking west. Work commenced 6-1-42. Talton-MacDonald Co.

Title: Alton and Southern
Description: Maps of the Alton and Southern

Title: St. Louis Riverfront From the Deck of the Golden Eagle
Date: 1946-07-13
Description: Golden Eagle trip July 13 - 1946. St. Louis riverfront.

Title: The A. T. & S. F. Ry. System Index Map
Date: 1923, 1942
Description: Index Map for entire ATSF Railway.

Title: Rock Fill
Date: 1942-06-30
Description: Showing rock fill along North side of Railroad. Embankment. Looking East.

Title: Speech on Sir Henry Thornton
Date: 1944-11-21
Description: Speech given by John W. Barriger III on Sir Henry Thornton.

Title: Blueprint Survey of South Chicago site Oct 12, 1948
Date: 1945-09-29
Description: A tract of land described under captain of Survey made by Chicago Guarantee Survey Company. Dated September 29, 1945. their Order No 4509011

Title: B-1 John W. Barriger III Collection
Date: 1984
Description: The working library of noted railroad executive John W. Barriger III (1899-1976) was acquired in 1982, the generous donation of his family. Widely recognized as one of the twentieth century's best-known and most distinguished railroad executives, Mr. Barriger was also an avid scholar, book collector, and photographer. His collection of books, papers, photographs, and memorabilia - collected over an active career of 50 years - forms the nucleus of the Library's railroad collections, one of the largest rail transportation collections in the world.

Title: Mechanical Instructions for Enginemen
Date: 1954-07-01
Description: This work was made for the Burlington Lines beginning in January of 1946. It was revised in 1951 and issued again in 1954. It provided instructions to engineers and firemen in the care and operation of locomotives. Mastery of these instructions helped firemen maintain their positions and gain promotion to the rank of engineer. Engineers and firemen were required to carry this book with them while on the job.

Title: Classification, Storage, and Receiving Yard
Date: 1942-06-01
Description: View of classification, storage and receiving yard. Taken looking west. Work commenced 6-1-42. Tarlton-MacDonald Co.

Title: New York Central System Chicago and Vicinity
Date: 1948, 1948

Title: B-1 Barriger Scrapbooks

Title: General Motors diesels in review, 1934-1944 : 10th anniversary of diesel road power on American railroads.
Date: 1944, 1944
Description: 10 year anniversary booklet produced by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. It briefly describes the diesel locomotives developed and sold by the company and includes color illustrations and black and white images of various locomotives.

Title: Accounting-Management's Most Effective Tool
Date: 1947-10-29, 1947-10-29
Description: A speech about how accounting benefits railroad management.

Title: A Railroad Officer's Creed
Date: 1948, 1948-10-23
Description: Opinion piece on a creed for railroad officers. Printed in Railway Age on October 23, 1948.

Title: Two Way Communication Between Management and Employees
Date: 1947, 1947-10-16
Description: Speech extolling the benefits of two-way communication between railroad management and railroad employees.

Title: Finance docket no. 12791 : Southern Pacific Company et al. abandonment.
Date: 1940, 1940

Title: Annual report on the statistics of railways in the United States, the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ending 1946.
Date: 12-31-1946, 1/1/1947

Title: Annual report on the statistics of railways in the United States, the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ending 1948
Date: 1948-12-31, 1949-01-01

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