Collections containing primarily railroad material

120 Edgar OG Allen (1869-1950) Memoirs, 1870-1946 (Railroad history)
179 William Edenborn Papers (1881 – 1926)
191 Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company Records (1898 – 1932)
290 Paul Sippel Memoirs, 1890-1968 (LR&N, KCS, L&A, etc.)
410 Kansas City Southern Railway Architectural, Mechanical & Geographical Drawings, & Map Records,
1898-1993
444 A. E. Brown Railroad Materials, 1871-1981(Journals, train orders, maps, photos,
KCS locomotive specifications, etc.)
598 Ray Collins Railroad Collection (LP Train Sound Albums, VHS Tapes, Movie Films, Audio Tapes,
Instructional Books, Photographs, etc.)
607 William D. Sandifer Collection (Photographs)
MMss 177 – PBS Segment: O. Winston Link 20/20 Segment
MMss 280 – Tom Crocker Photos (Louisiana & Northwest Railroad)
MMss 291 – Spreckelmeier Railroad Photos (Louisiana & Arkansas)
MMss 296 – Farming for Profit in NW La. (KCS Brochure - 1911)
MMss 298 – New Orleans Pacific Railway Activity in DeSoto Parish (1872-1911)
MMss 302 – Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad Documents (1883 & 1886)
MMss 303 – Claiborne-Polk Military Railroad Material from Louis Saillard

Additional collections containing significant railroad material

015 Shreveport City Council Proceedings 1839-1967 Microfilm (see Index Cards)
(also see La Coll. HE2781.S615 "Ordinances…Railroads")
022 Dewey Somdal Collection – Folders 215, 1202, 1364-1370, etc.
048 Goodloe R. Stuck Papers Collection – Box 5 (maps)
343 Mayor Sam Caldwell Scrapbooks (i.e. T&P Depot in 1937 Book pp 90, 93, 102, etc.)
344 Newspaper Collection – Box 13 (Shreveport Centennial Edition)
344 Newspaper Collection – Box 17 (Railroad and Souvenir Edition of The Shreveport Times May 20, 1896)
453 Shreveport City Records (1894-1973) - see Boxes 121&122 for Inventory
544 Alan Thompson Research Materials Collection (see "Railroads & Riverboats")
559 Robert M. "Bob" Griffin Tape Collection – Texas State Railroad (short video)
571 Davis Bland Photographic Collection (VHS tapes, etc.)
Bossier Banner Newspaper Index 1859-1985
Subject Index to the Shreveport Times 1871-1899
Shreveport Times Advertisements Index 1871-1899
North Louisiana Historical Association Journal - Index by Subject (i.e. Railroads)
Eric Brock’s Column Index by Date and Subject
Vertical File Citations 1991-2003
Publication Index Card File
Oral Histories Card File
Shreveport Magazine (see Card File Index by Subject)
City Directories contain many full-page railroad advertisements

References to Railroad Subjects in the Cumulative Name Index (CNI)

Collections
Amalgamated Assoc. of Street & Electric Railway Employees of America 265
Arkansas, Louisiana & Southern Railway 290
Central, St. Louis & New Orleans Railway 410
Conrail-Norfolk-Southern Railroad 413
Consolidated Terminal Railway Co. of Kansas City 410
Cotton Belt Railroad 179
Denver & North-West Pacific Railway 176
Deramus, William N. 410
Deramus Yards 410
Deramus, William Neal 444
Edenborn, William 179, 191, 290, 410
Fairfield Railroad Co. 409
Illinois Central Railway 410
International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Film 52, 231
Kansas City, Nevada & Ft. Smith Railroad Co. 410
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad Co. 410
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Western Railroad Co. 410
Kansas City, Rich Hill & Southern Railroad Co. 410
Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Co. 410
Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Terminal Co. 410
Kansas City Southern Railway 033, 090, 120, 192, 290, 410, 442, 444, 445, MMss81, MMss296
Kansas City, Texarkana & Gulf Railway 410
Link, O. Winston MMss177
Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. 126, 191, 192, 290, 410
Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co. 179, 191, 290, 410, MMss46
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 410
Missouri Pacific Railway 410
"One Man" Streetcar 012
Oregon Shortline Railway 120
Pittsburg, Ft. Smith & Southern Railway 410
Railroads 571
Reader RR – Goodloe Stuck Papers 048
Red River Valley Historical Railroad Society 571
Red River Valley Railway – William Edenborn Papers 179
St. Louis & Southwestern Railway 410
St. Louis, Chicago & St. Paul Railway 120
Shreveport & Red River Valley Railway 191, 290
Shreveport City Railway 331
Shreveport Railways Co 265
Shreveport Transportation – Auto, Railroad & Street Car MMss184
Southern Pacific Railway 120, MMss108
T&P Railway 444
Texarkana & Ft. Smith Railway 410
Texarkana & Northern Railway 410
Texas & Pacific Railway 191, 410, 571
Union Terminal Railway 410
US Naval Railway Battery 467
US Railroad Administration 120
Women in Transportation Club, Scrapbooks Film 75, 378
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway 410

Vertical Files
Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
Link, O. Winston
Railroader with a Steam Line for Sale (Reader RR)
Railroad – L&A Railway Lines
Railroads – Shreveport Area
Railroads – Early Railroading in the Ark-La-Tex
Shreveport Railways Co.
Texarkana – Railroads
Texas & Pacific Railway
Texas State Railroad

Maps
1922 Public Service map of Louisiana (on wall by Copier)
Sanborn Maps (show track routes)
Note: Several Sanborn Maps showing Shreveport railroad facilities have been digitized.
They are stored on the Archives Server in a folder called "Sanborn Maps by Railroad"
Many other maps also show track routes (i.e. Northwestern La. Oil & Gas Fields -1919)

Journals
La. Coll. F366.N66 North Louisiana Historical Association Journal
"Do you Remember When?: The RR Fever Hit Union," Liggin, Edna (Vol. 2/No. 1): Fall 1970, 30-31
"First Woman to Drive…Golden Spike," Peyton, Rupert (Vol. 6/No. 2): Winter 1975, 93
"The 'Natchitoches Tap'," Lott, Jason (Vol. 29/No. 2,3): Spring-Sum 1998, 49-69
"North Louisiana's Strategic Railroad," Estaville, Lawrence (Vol. 9/No. 4): Fall 1978, 177-192
"Railroad Consolidation and the Short Line Railroads" Means, Gay Griffith (Vol. 14/No. 4): Fall 1983, 157-168
"Shreveport and NW La's Railroads," Means, Emilia Gay (Vol. 17/No. 1): Winter 1986, 29-38
"William Edenborn: A Robber Baron in La.," Mangin, C. Geoffrey (Vol. 33/No. 2&3): Spring-Sum 2002, 66-76
"Shreveport and the Railroads," Means, Emilia Gay (Vol. 20, No.1): Winter 1989, 33-46
"Modern Day Empire: RRs in N. La....1850-1940," Eades, Kevin Lamar (Vol. 37/No. 1): Winter 2006, 53-69
"Through Good Times and Bad: The Vicksburg," Harrison, Tim (Vol. 31/No. 1): Winter 2005, 34-42

Microfilm: (2nd Floor)
Railway Locomotives & Cars – 7 reels – Jan. 2, 1832 – 1855 (Indexed)

Photographs
Archive Photo Collection (See Alphabetic Index Card File for additional photographs)
Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville diesel – PA4143
Ford Park D&R Engine No. 10 workers in 1958 – PA786
Illinois Central Section Crew, Sibley, LA – PA2914
KCS Engineers group portrait – PA628
KCS "Flying Crow" crew ca 1940 – PA636
KCS "Flying Crow" Engineer Dan Barnum – PA626
KCS "Flying Crow" Near DeQuincy LA – PA627
KCS Train No. 15, Blanchard, LA 1938 (A. E. Brown) – PA630, PC774
KCS Engine No. 102 – PA648
KCS Engine No. 103 ca 1902 – PA624
KCS Engine No. 140 – PA637
KCS Engine No. 141 at Stillwell, LA ca 1905 – PA635
KCS Engine No. 170 – PA631
KCS Engine No. 332, 1905 – PA638
KCS Engine No. 333 at Wilton, AR Wade Hampton Conductor ca 1903 – PA640
KCS Engine No. 440 "The Huey P. Long" – PA634
KCS Engine No. 600 at Port Arthur, TX ca 1910 – PA647
KCS Engine No. 600 at Port Arthur, TX ca 1915 Crew identified with photo – PA651
KCS Engine No. 600 Wade Hampton Conductor ca 1901 – PA650
KCS Engine No. 606 at Port Arthur, TX ca 1915 Crew identified with photo – PA652
KCS Engine No. 606, Wade Hampton Conductor ca 1910 – PA639
KCS Engine No. 660 at Port Arthur, TX ca 1920 Crew identified with photo – PA649
KCS Engine No. 752 – PA4334
KCS Engine No. 905 with War Bonds advertisement – PA4335
KCS Display at Louisiana State Fair ca 1950’s – PC1782
KCS Railroad tracks between Portland and Hearne overpasses 1980 – PD249, PD250, PD251
KCS Railway and Traffic Bridge over Caddo Lake at Mooringsport, LA 1914 – PA1401
KCS Roundhouse with engine Shreveport, LA ca 1916 – PA1184
KCS “Southern Belle” crossing viaduct near Kansas City – PC1038
KCS Switch Engine, Shreveport, LA ca 1912 – PA645
KCS train at Oil City, LA 1940 (W. A. Fain) – PA614, PA619
KCS train at Port Arthur, TX ca 1900 – PA641
KCS train carrying Byrd High School football players to game in Beaumont, TX 1912 – PA642
KCS train wreck in Cedar Grove March 31, 1966 – PC1938, PC1939
KCS Shop Crew ca 1906 including Frank Fox – PA4373
KCS Railway mill scene ca 1904 – PA4375
L&A General Offices, Minden, LA after tornado 1933 – PA2962
L&A Shop and crew, Vince Parker and Paul Reeves, Minden, LA – PA2785
L&A Boiler Shop, M. Moon and C. Eddlemon Boilermakers, Minden ca 1938 - PA2585(2)
L&A Station on Marshall St., porters on platform – PA4336
L&A Engine 393 ca 1930s – PD226
L&A Doubleheader Engines 105 and 101, 1942 – PD227
L&A Extra 800-552 Doubleheader, Scottsville, LA, March 31, 1941; A. E. Brown Photo - PC2200
Logs on Railroad Cars – PB51, PB52
Logging Railroads – PA1427, PA2439, PA2440, PA2916
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. General Office - Vice President 1918 – PA303
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. General Freight – Pass. Agent 1918 – PA304
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Engineering Dept 1918 – PA305, PD225
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Accounting Dept 1918 – PA306
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Office 1918 – PA307
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Freight Claim Dept 1918 – PA308
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Auditor 1918 – PA309
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Car Accountant 1918 – PA310
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. General Office Superintendent 1918 – PA311
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Purchasing Dept 1918 – PA312
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Supt. 1918 – PA313
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Shop, Shreveport, LA 1923 – PC735
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Employees, Shreveport, LA ca 1910 – postcard – PA1163
Louisiana Railroad & Navigation Co. Work Crew – PC737
Missouri Pacific No. 600 at Vidalia, LA – PC1951
Missouri Pacific Engine No. 6605, Monroe Line, 1948 – PC1953
Missouri Pacific Engine No. 7523, Monroe Line, 1931 – PC1952
Nickel Plate Steam Engine No. 158 – PA4414
Passenger Train and car wreck near Cross lake – PA643
Passenger Train engine – PC773
Pittsburg & Gulf Railway, Mena, AR Wade Hampton Conductor ca 1900 - PA646
Railroad Bridge crossing Caddo Lake at Mooringsport, LA – PA1514
Railroad Bridge over Red River VS and P 1909 Postcard – PB979
Railroad Bridge with Horse & Buggy ca 1903 – PC1424
Railroad Stations
Caspiana, LA 1991 and 2004 – PB1456, PB1457
Central Station, Shreveport, LA – PB531
Central Station, Shreveport, LA from 1919 publication – PB589
Central Station, Shreveport, LA ca1930 – PA672
Central Station, Shreveport, LA – PD231 (missing?)
Cullen 1948 – PA2305
L. & A. Depot, Minden, LA ca 1910 – PA2811
Logansport, LA ca 1952 – PA3102, PA3103, PA3104, PA3105
Lucas, LA 1986 – Collection 571
Plain Dealing, LA ca 1912 – PA3789, PA3790, PA3791, PA3867
Plain Dealing, LA last depot agent ca 1971 – PA3372
Plain Dealing, LA ca 1918 – PA3910
Plain Dealing, LA ca 1900 – PA2418
Powhatan, LA 2007 – Collection 571
Shoreline, LA 1961 – PA1503
Shreveport, LA Texas & Pacific, Market Street 1942 – PD229
Shreveport, LA Union Depot ca 1900 – PB530
Shreveport, LA Union Depot from 1919 publication – PB588
Shreveport, LA Union Depot Color Postcard 1907 – PB962
Shreveport, LA Union Depot Color Postcard ca 1910 – PB1057
Shreveport, LA Union Station – PB8
Shreveport, LA Union Station Postcard – PB989
Shreveport, LA Union Station with tower 1922 (Grabill) – PC49, Grabill Vol. II #113
Shreveport, LA Union Station aerial photo – PC53, Grabill Disk 3 (better image)
Springhill, LA built in 1948 – PA2307, PA2308
Springhill, LA 1947 – PA2304
Unidentified Depot in northern Caddo Parish – PA1540
Vivian, LA ca 1922 – PA1325
Vivian, LA – PB1034
Vivian, LA – PC1039
Railroad yard, Shreveport, LA ca 1950 – PC1056
Railroad and Souvenir Edition, Shreveport Times, 1896 – PE34 and Collection 344, Box 17
Railroads (General)
VHS tapes – see Collection 571 Inventory
Tom Crocker Photo Collection, Louisiana & Northwest RR – MMss280
35mm slides – see Crow Media Collection 589 Inventory
Streetcar – PB529
The "Shreveporter"
Dining Car on maiden trip December 30, 1928 – PA675
Train on maiden trip December 30, 1928 – PA676
Leaving Shreveport on maiden trip December 30, 1928 – PA673
Minden, LA Crowds greet “The Shreveporter” on maiden trip Dec 30 1928 – PA674
Minden, LA Crowds greet “The Shreveporter” on maiden trip Dec 30 1928 – PD253
L&A "The Shreveporter" leaving Shreveport 1928 (Grabill) – PA2734
Texarkana Lumber Mill train ca 1902 – PA633
Texas & Pacific Telegraph Dept 1918 – PA314
Texas & Pacific Freight Agent 1918 – PA315
Texas & Pacific, Cypress local at Hickory Ridge crossing, J. T. Woods Engineer ca 1950 – PC1164
Texas & Pacific, Texarkana local "The Bullet" from Anna St. viaduct, 1942 (Ed Robinson) - PC1160
Texas & Pacific, Train #20 from Marshall to Alexandria at Anna St. viaduct, 1943(Ed Robinson) - PC1162
Texas & Pacific, Train #20 from Marshall to Alexandria near Buncombe Road crossing, 1943
(Ed Robinson) – PC1163
Texas & Pacific Train #27 Alexandria to Marshall, leaving Shreveport T&P Depot 1950 (Ed Robinson) – PC1161
Texas & Pacific Train #27 Alexandria to Marshall leaving Union Depot 1940 (Ed Robinson) – PC1165
Texas & Pacific Related Subjects on VHS tapes – Collection 571
VS and P Engine No. 301 crossing Red River Bridge – PB344, PC1407
VS and P Engine No. 312 Bridge Accident 1890 – PD174

Jack Barham Photo Negatives Collection 399
A few examples listed below
Texas & Pacific Roundhouse, Shreveport, LA 1947 – Neg. #1996
Texas & Pacific Station, Shreveport, LA, exterior – Neg. # 1173
Texas & Pacific Station, Shreveport, LA, interior – Neg. # 1698
Texas & Pacific Station, Shreveport, LA, school kids taking a train ride – Neg. #2279
For the complete Alphabetical Index, see hard copy binder in Archives Reading Room 2

J. Frank McAneny Photographic Collection 549
A few examples listed below
Texas & Pacific Hollywood Yard Office, Shreveport, LA 1950’s
Texas & Pacific Engine No. 2012
Texas & Pacific Engine No. 2015
For the complete Alphabetical Index, see hard copy binder in Archives Reading Room 2

Shreveport Times Photo Negatives Collection 393
For a partial Alphabetical Index, see hard copy binder in Archives Reading Room 2

Jim and Frank Hampson Photography Collection 563
An example listed below
Texas & Pacific Switch Engine No. 8006
For the complete list, consult the hard copy Inventory for the collection

Spreckelmeier Railroad Photos MMss291
L&A photographs on a CD

William D. Sandifer Collection 607
Some of Billy Sandifer’s photos, primarily Texas & Pacific (see inventory)

McEachern Collection 608
Selected railroad and other images have been scanned and stored on the Archives Server

Grabill Collection 542
See Grabill Index

Louisiana Collection (Books)
Organized by LC Call Number
AS 36.T3(1991) Greener Pastures – T&P, Jay Gould, etc.
E 565.E88 Confederate Neckties – Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War (1989)
F366.L6238 Louisiana History (published by Louisiana Historical Association)
F366.L79 Louisiana Historical Quarterly (published by La. Historical Society)
F366.N66 North Louisiana Historical Quarterly (predecessor to NLHA)
F368.H3 Northwestern Louisiana – A History (Vol. 1 – Pages 388-403)
F 369.P54 A Pictorial History of Northwest Louisiana (Vol. I & II) (2000)
F 375.L8735 Louisiana – A Handbook (1904)
F377.C15 Caddo: 1,000 (see index)
F 377.N4 Louisiana’s Kisatchie Hills (page 84)
F 379.S4 06 Chronicles of Shreveport & Caddo Parish (1928)
F 379.S4 G48 Glimpses of Shreveport (1985)
F 379.S4H495 Historic Shreveport (2000)
F379.S4 P5 Historic Shreveport - Bossier
F 379.S4 S42 Shreveport Magazine Index
G4010.1913 Rand-McNally Pocket Map & Shipper’s Guide (shows all railroads, etc)
HC 102.5 E28 The Man Who Fenced the West (Wm. Edenborn) (1984)
HE 1021.K35 Kansas City Southern Lines Present an Eight Million Dollar Drama of Rail Progress (1956)
HE 2752.P3 The John W. Barringer III National Railroad Library (1999)
HE 2781.N5 New Orleans and the Railroads 1830-1860 (1966)
HE 2781.S615 Ordinances Pertaining to Right Of Way of All Railroads Granted by the City Council of
Shreveport Sept 1857 to Dec 1897 (1898)
HE 2791.A25 Indenture of Lease between The Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company and The Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad Company(1925)
HE 2791.K17 Kansas City Southern – Route of the Southern Belle (1987)
HE 2791.K36 Origin and Development of the KCS Railway Company (1936)
HE 2792.T49 Building the Texas and Pacific Railway in Louisiana 1850-1920
HE 2791.T32 From Ox Teams to Eagles: A History of the Texas & Pacific Railway(1947)
HE 4487.L8 The Streetcars of New Orleans
HE 4487.L8 Louisiana Its Street and Interurban Railways Vol. 1 (1962)
HG 4354.S85 Cannibals of Finance (1912)
TF 25.L77 The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway
TF 725.N45 The Last Line: A Streetcar Named St. Charles (1980)
TJ 603.3.K3 Locomotives & Trains of Louisiana & Arkansas, KCS Railways (A.E. Brown) (1952)
TJ 603.3.K3 Kansas City Southern in the Deramus Era (1999)
TL 232.R84 Shreveport: The Trackless Trolley Years 1931-1965
TL 232.R84 Trolley Coach News

Louisiana Collection (Books) from the Ray Collins Railroad Collection 598
TF25.N77.L56 Steam Steel & Stars; Photographs by O. Winston Link; 1987
TF25.N77.L545 The Last Steam Railroad in America; Photographs by Winston O. Link; 1995
HE2771.L8.D47 Up and Down the Red River and Gulf Railroad; Troy L. DeRamus; 1989
TF24.L8.B87 Down Among the Sugar Cane; W.E. Butler; 1980
TF23.K76 Steam & Thunder in the Timber: Saga of the Forest Railroads; Michael Koch; 1979
TJ603.A33 A Locomotive Engineer’s Album; George B. Abdill; 1965
TF25.S68 America’s Bicentennial Queen Engine 4449; Richard K. Wright; 1975
D810.T8 Steel Rails to Victory; Ron Ziel; 1970
TF22.D45 Iron Horses; Michael Del Vecchio; 200
TF302.U54 American Train Depot & Roundhouse; Hans and April Halberstadt; 1995
TL200.B87 Steam on the Road; David Burgess Wise; 1973
TJ625.B2 The Locomotives that Baldwin Built; Fred Westing; 1966
TJ23.6.A22 Rails West; George B. Abdill; 1960
TF23.6.A2 Pacific Slope Railroads; George B. Abdill; 1959
HE2771.A19 This Was Railroading; George B. Abdill; 1963
TF573.G73 Great Trains of the World; Patrick B. Whitehouse; 1975
TJ605.H28 The Love of Trains; Victor Hand & Harold Edmonson; 1974
HE2751.J38 The American Heritage History of Railroads in America; Oliver Jensen; 1975
HE2751.C37 American Railroads in Transition; Robert S. Carper; 1968
TJ603.A5995 The Collector’s Book of the Locomotive; Edwin P. Alexander; 1966
TJ603.A599 American Locomotives: A Pictorial Record of Steam Power 1900-1950; Edwin P. Alexander; 1950
TF25.M5 Uintah Railway – The Gilsonite Route; Henry E. Bender, Jr.; 1970
TF147.M67 Early Trains; Bryan Morgan; 1974
TF15.E52 Encyclopedia of Railroads; O. S. Nock; 1977
HE1021.E4 Railways; C. Hamilton Ellis; 1974
TF23.B33 America’s Colorful Railroads; Don Ball, Jr.; 1978
TF23.B34 Portrait of the Rails; Don Ball, Jr.; 1972
TJ603.3.S66 4-10-2: Three Barrels of Steam; James E. Boynton; 1973
TF25.D43 To Santa Fe by Narrow Gauge: the D&RG’s ‘Chili Line’ ; Gordon Chappell; 1969
TJ603.2.R35 Locomotive 346: The First 100 Years; Dirk P. Ramsey & George E. Lawrence; 1981
HE2751.E94 The Spectacular Trains; John Everds; 1973
TJ603.H318 Pictorial History of Trains; David S. Hamilton; 1977
TJ605.W52 The Wonderful World of Steam Locomotives; P. B. Whitehouse; 1978
TF23.W44 Great Trains of North America; P. B. Whitehouse; 1974
TF23.B38 Highball: A Pageant of Trains; Lucius Beebe; 1945
TF15.H47 Ultimate Train; Peter Herring; 2000
HE1780.R4 Train Wrecks; Robert C. Reed; 1968
TJ605.H64 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World’s Steam Passenger Locomotives; Brian Hollingsworth; 1982
TJ603.4.N67 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Locomotives; Brian Hollingsworth; 1984
TJ608.D8 Garratt Locomotives of the World; A. E. Durrant; 1981
HD8039.R12 The Railroaders; Stuart Leuthner; 1983
TF573.C65 High Speed Trains; Jane Collins; 1978
HE2771.A4 Rails North; Howard Clifford; 1981
TJ608.L45 Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America - Vol. 1; Robert A. LeMassena; 1979
TF147.T68 Trains Around the World; Octopus Books; 1972
HE2791.N857 The Northern Pacific; Charles R. Wood; 1968
HE2791.S9267 The Road to Paradise; William M. Moedinger; 1983
E491.A17 Civil War Railroads; George B. Abdill; 1961
TJ605.5W45 Superpower; David Weitzman; 1987
TJ603.M6 Steam’s Finest Hour; David P. Morgan; 1959
TF25.A8.H51 The History of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Pamela Berkman; 1988
TF300.A4 Down at the Depot; Edwin P. Alexander; 1970
TJ603.3.A44 Iron Horses – American Locomotives 1829-1900; E. P. Alexander; 1941
TF20.N62 Railways in the Transition from Steam 1940-1965; O. S. Nock; 1974
TF23.P5 Yonder Comes The Train; Lance Phillips; 1965
TF24.C6.W54 Colorado Railroads; Tivis E. Wilkins; 1974
TF145.W48 The Complete Book of Trains and Railroads; John Westwood; 1979
HE2791.S794.Y46 The History of the Southern Pacific; Bill Yenne; 1985
TF25.U5.H577 The History of the Union Pacific; Marie Cahill & Lynne Piade; 1989
TJ603.B885 The Georgian Locomotive; H. Stafford Bryant, Jr.; 1962
TF677.D66 Lake Superior Iron Ore Railroads; Patrick C. Dorin; 1959
TF149.P47 Otto Perry: Master Railroad Photographer; Charles Albi & William C. Jones; 1982
HE2763.E46 The History of the Western Railroads; Jane Eliot; 1985
TF145.H75 Atlas of the World’s Railways; Brian Hollingsworth; 1982
NC1766.U52.D5316 Walt Disney’s Railroad Story; Michael Broggie; 1997
TJ603.G37 Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail; Colin Garratt & Max Wade-Matthews; 2003
TF149.E39 The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways; Hamilton Ellis; 1968
HE2763.B76 Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow; Dee Brown; 1977
TJ608.W5 Articulated Locomotives; Lionel Wiener; 1930 republished 1970
TJ605.5.A9 Modern Locomotives; Derek Avery; 1994
TJ603.P75 Steam Trains; Paul Price; 1978
HE203.H6 Wheels Across America; Clarence P. Hornung; 1959
HE2771.O7.C85 Stations West: The Story of the Oregon Railways; Edwin D. Culp; 1972
TF145.N62 World Atlas of Railways; O. S. Nock; 1978
TF375.N62 Railways at the Turn of the Century 1895-1905; O. S. Nock; 1969
TJ603.N5685 Railways at the Zenith of Steam 1920-40; O. S. Nock; 1970
TF15.H58 History of Railways; E. L. Cornwell; 1976
TF6.U5.S75 Steam Passenger Service Directory; Empire State Railway Museum, Inc.; 1983
TJ603.A84 20th Century Steam; Derek Avery; 1994
F594.O26 Iron Wheels and Broken Men; Richard O’Connor; 1973

Railroad-related fiction / humor books
PS3553.O582.H66 Honeysuckle, Creosote, and Trainsmoke; William O. Cook; 1990
GR105.E73 Singing Rails: Railroadin’ Songs, Jokes & Stories; Wayne Erbsen; 1997
F411.H93 Three Years in Arkansaw; Marion Hughes; 1979
PN6161.J3115 On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw; Thomas W. Jackson; 1903 republished 1982

Audio Cassette Tapes
“The American Freedom Train”; Interurban Films; 1976
“Steam Engines and Whistles”; copied from a tape owned by former President of Cotton Belt Railroad
according to a note in the cassette case, n.d
“This is Railroading – Canada” (side 1) Mexico (side 2)”; Stan Kistler; 1960
“Santa Fe Steam Locomotives of the Los Angeles Division, 1950”; Stan Kistler; n.d.
“Accent on Steam – Volume One”; Arkay Enterprises; 1978
“Steam Excursion Sounds – UP 3985 From Marshall TX to Prescott AR”; Paul Thurman; n.d.
“Railroad Sounds – Steam and Diesel”; Audio Fidelity Enterprises; n.d

Audio CDs
“Sounds of Trains Volume 1”; Brad Miller; 1987
“Sounds of Trains Volume 2”; Brad Miller; 1987
“On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe”; The Special Music Company; 1990

33 1/3 rpm Record
“Steam on Horseshoe Curve”; Semaphore Records; n.d.

33 1/3 rpm LP Albums
“Last Train to Waterloo – Reader Railroad”; Brad Miller; 1972
“Sounds of Steam Railroading” O. Winston Link; 1957
“The Fading Giant” (Sounds of Steam Railroading Vol. 2); O. Winston Link; ca 1958
“Thunder on Blue Ridge” (Sounds of Steam Railroading Vol. 3); O. Winston Link; 1959
“2nd Pigeon and the Mocking Bird” (Sounds of Steam Railroading Vol. 4); O. Winston Link; 1961
“Mainline to Panther” (Sounds of Steam Railroading Vol. 6S); O. Winston Link; 1977
“Berkshire ‘To Shenandoah’ ”; Pilot to Tender Record Co.; 1969
“Berkshire on Blue Ridge”; Pilot to Tender Record Co.; 1973
“Sounds of Steam Locomotives No. 1”; Folkways Records; 1956
“Sounds of Steam Locomotives No. 2”; Folkways Records; 1957
“Sounds of Steam Locomotives No. 3”; Folkways Records; 1958
“Sounds of Steam Locomotives Vol. IV”; Folkways Records; 1958
“A Decade of Steam Volume Two”; Arkay Enterprises; 1982
“Memories of Steam: Past and Present” (3 record set plus 3 duplicates); Murray Hill; n.d
“Fast Freight on the Nickel Plate”; North Jersey Recordings; 1958
“All Steamed Up”; Owl Records, Howard Fogg narrating; ca 1959
“Doubleheader”; Vantage recording Company; 1965
“Ghost Train”; Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity; 1962
“Colorado & Southern Steam”; North Jersey Recordings; ca 1958
“A Royal Hudson”; Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity; 1975
“Niagara Stack Talk”; From Pilot to Tender Record Co.; n.d.
“Valle Del Locomotora De Vapor” (Valley of the Steam Locomotive); Mobile Fidelity; 1964
“Whistles in the Woods”; Stan Kistler; 1959
“Extra 4449 North”; Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity; 1976
“American Freedom Train”; Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity; 1975
“Songs and Sounds of The Great Days of Steam”; CBS and O. Winston Link; 1975
“Sunday Only”; Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity; 1962
“Steam in the High Country”; North Jersey Recordings; n.d
“Rio Grande to Silverton”; North Jersey Recordings; n.d.
“The Big Steam! Union Pacific”; Owl Records – narration by Howard Fogg; n.d.
“Sound of Steam (2 record set)”; North Jersey Recordings; n.d.
“This is Railroading – Canada” (side 1) Mexico (side 2)”; Stan Kistler; 1960
“Steam Railroading under Thundering Skies”; Mobile Fidelity; 1961
“Steam Locomotive Rail Sounds”; High Fidelity Recordings, Inc.; n.d.
“Remember When?”; Mobile Fidelity; 1960
“Rods, Wheels and Whistles”; North Jersey Recordings; n.d.
“Steam Power Along the North Western Railway”; Cuca Record Co.; n.d.
“Rail Dynamics”; Cook Laboratories; n.d.
“Railroad Sounds – Steam and Diesel”; Audio Fidelity Records; n.d.
“Highball – narrated by Jim Ameche”; Mobile Fidelity; 1958
“Twilight of Steam”; Mobile Fidelity; 1963
“Steel Rails Under Thundering Skys”; Bainbridge / Mobile Fidelity; 1972
“Modern Steam”; Semaphore; n.d.
“High Iron 759”; Semaphore; 1972
“Steam Symphony – sounds of steam on the South African Railways”; Steam Sound; n.d.
“Sunset of Steam (South Africa)”; Sound Pics; n.d.
“Steam on the Five-Foot-Three (Australia)”; Austrailian Railway Historical Society; n.d.
“Steam Past & Present (England)”; Pye Records, UK; n.d.
“British Steam”; Sonologue LTD; 1967
“Stereo Spectacular! (Stereo Demonstration) ”; Radio Craftsman Co.; n.d.

VHS Tapes
165 Titles

Plus
Miscellaneous photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, movie films, etc.

Sources at LSUS in addition to the Archives

The James S. Noel Collection
LSUS Online Catalog of Books, Microfilm, etc.

Compiled by D. Bland
Last Update August 9, 2007

Copies to
Guide to Archives & Special Collections (on desk in front)
Vertical File (“Railroads”)
Web Folder on Tiff Server