Documents, photos, maps, drawings, and other paper ephemera and media related to the history of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and its predecessor and affiliated companies.
A brochure from the Missouri Pacific Railroad advertising fares between their lines and the East via Slumbercoaches with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Collection of material from former EMD employee Preston Cook. Consists of technical and historic material relating to diesel locomotives, mainly built by EMD but also other manufacturers. There is also a significant image collection found on the library's flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/barrigerlibrary
Robert Yates was intimately involved in the development of the intermodal industry in the United States and has amassed the largest intellectual intermodal archive known to exist.
His collection consists of two main areas, Southern Pacific and Greenbrier Intermodal.
1984. Its car body was built for 125 ton intermediate trucks but was produced with 100 ton intermediate trucks and 70 to end trucks. The GBRX 1984 had the capability to load 40' international containers in all 5 wells and 40' or 45' international containers on top. Tare weight was 217,300 pounds and the load limit per well was 90,000 pounds.