Guide to the Rutland Railroad Archives
Contact Information
Vermont Collection
Main Library
110 Storrs Ave.
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 443-5493
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Contents List
Accidents
Photocopies of accidents reported
to the Vermont Board of Railroad Commissioners
and the Vermont Public Service Board, 1892-1925
Addison Railroad
Addison Railroad financial journal, covering June
30, 1918 to October, 1951. (purchased 2-08)
Folder of material relating to
the election of directors of the
Addison Railroad Company, dated 1907, 1926, 1927,
1938, and 1941
Indenture between the Addison Railroad
Company and the Rutland Railroad Company, dated Dec. 7, 1870.
Agreement between the Addison Railroad
Company and the Rutland Railroad Company, dated Jan. 17, 1877.
Profile drawings (4) of the Addison Railroad, dated June 30,
1917.
Annual Conventions
Field trip handouts
Annual Reports
Rutland Railroad Company. Fortieth
annual report of the Board of Directors... for the year ending December 31,
1906.
1952
1956
1958
1959
1961
1965
1966
1967
Balance Sheets
September 30, 1896
April 30, 1897
June 30, 1897
September 30, 1897
March 31, 1898
June 30, 1898
October 1, 1898
December 1, 1898
January 1, 1899
June 30, 1899
Bankruptcy Proceedings (Donated by Ralph Notaristefano)
3 LF; not yet inventoried
Board of Directors
Rutland Railway Corporation. Minutes
of meetings of Board of Directors.
correspondence is included.
Rutland Railway Corporation. Minutes of meetings
of Board of Directors.
January 1965 - December 1968. Some related business
correspondence is included.
Central Vermont Railway Co.
Annual Report (Vt. Collection HE2791
C49)
8th
1907
15th
1914
17th
1916
18th
1917
Correspondence
Folder of material containing a variety of correspondence and
forms including:
Boiler inspection certificate issued by the Hartford
Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company,
dated November 20, 1907.
Rutland Railroad Company daily time report for
Manchester, dated Feb. 11, 1923.
Rutland Railroad Company freight way-bills, various
dates.
Letter to Friends of the Iron Horse Gallop, signed
by the president of the Boston and Maine Railroad,
dated June 6, 1937.
Letter to Messrs Chappell & Burke, dated Dec.
5, 1892, on Central Vermont Railroad stationery
regarding the relocation of a side track.
Letter dated July 25, 1884 acknowledging receipt
of $14,346.25 from the Central Vermont Railroad Company
and signed by Charles Clement,
President of the Rutland Railroad Company. Letter
dated Nov. 4, 1902 regarding an agreement between
the Rutland Railroad Company and the Lowell Fertilizer
Company for the construction of a side
track north of Burlington.
Letter dated Feb. 16, 1896, on Ogdensburg & Lake
Champlain Railroad stationery,
regarding insurance on the Norwood elevator and
reports of broken rails.
Letter dated 3/14, 1902 from the Clinton County
Clerk's Office regarding fees for an agreement between the
Chatham & Lebanon Valley Railroad and the Rutland
Railroad. Memorandum of prices for charges
between O. & L. C. and C. V. R. R., dated July
1, 1884.
Collateral note dated march 5, 1900 for $50,000
for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
signed by the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad
and the Rutland Canadian Railroad.
Several letters and a telegram between attorneys
for the Central Vermont Railway Co. and
the Rutland Railroad Company, dated August to
November 1928, regarding a forthcoming trial.
Rutland Railway Corporation roadway completion
report, dated May 21, 1954 for work performed
at Gassetts station.
Folder containing a 4 page letter from the Association
of American Railroads to the general attorney
for the Rutland Railway Corporation, dated September
10, 1957, with a history of interchange rules
and attachments with an agreement on interchange
rules, code of car service rules
and code of per diem rules.
Ephemera
annual passes
dog tags
transfer tags
trip passes (unused)
Financial Statements (Donated by Steven Mumley)
Rutland Railway Corporation. Income
account, detail of railway operating revenues. April 1960, April 1961.
Statements of distribution of earnings and expenses
for the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Division
for 1898-1900
Schedule of other revenues - passengers, for 1948-1953.
Balance sheet Rutland RR Co. in account with the
trustees & managers Vt. Central &
Vt. & Canada R. R. Cor. 1871
Balance sheet of liabilities of Rutland R. R.
Co., dated 1872 and 1873.
Balance sheet Rutland Railroad Co., 1870, 1896,
1897, 1899, 1900.
Rutland Railway Corporation. Consolidated Income
Statement, 1960-64.
Rutland Railway Corporation. Estimated Carry Forward
Losses, dated 12/31/61
Balance sheet of on line shipments, 1952-9.
Summary sheet with data on income or deficit reported
on federal income tax returns for 1941-65;
federal income taxes paid,1913-38; stock prices,
1951-64.
Rutland Railway Corporation balance sheets, dated
Sept. 30, 1961.
Rutland Railway Corporation income and revenue
sheets, 1963-64
Summary sheet with data on freight revenue, 1915-60.
U. S. Corporation income tax return for Rutland
Railway for 1953, with attachments.
Rutland Railroad Company earnings and expenses
1896 and 1897.
Letter dated January 15, 1883 on Central Vermont
stationery about financial statements.
Rutland Railroad Company. Earnings and expenses
statements, 1896
Letter dated July 24, 1882 on Central Vermont
stationery about financial statements.
Rutland Railroad Company. Distribution of earnings
and expenses statements, 1899 & 1900.
Statement of earnings of Vermont Central and Rutland
Railroads, 1881-82.
Comparative statement, Central Vermont Ry. With
Rutland Railroad
1900
Summary earnings statement for 1870, 1875-78 and
1881 for the Central Vermont R. R. Co.,
Rutland R. R., and Addison R. R.
Statement of earnings and distributions, 1864.
Earnings and expenses for the year ending June
30th, 1900.
Statement of earnings, January, 1900 and 1901.
Comparative earnings for July and August, 1900
and 1901.
Comparison of earnings and expenses
1896,
1897, 1898
Earnings and expenses for the months ending January,
April, and June 1900.
Balance sheet March 19, 1896.
Notes payable, 1896.
Capitalization of the Rutland Railroad System,
1900.
Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance Dockets
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Rutland Railroad Company Reorganization.
Submission of plan of reorganization pursuant
to section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended.
Finance docket No. 14635. Washington, DC: January,
1949. 6 copies.
Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance docket
No. 21870.
Rutland Railway Corporation Abandonment of Entire
Line. Decided September 18, 1962.
Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance Docket
No. 21870. Rutland Railway Corporation
abandonment of entire line. Decided September
18, 1962. Various pagination.
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance
Docket No. 21870. In the matter of application of Rutland
Railway Corporation
authorizing the abandonment
by said Rutland Railway Corporation
of its entire line of railroad. Dated: December
4, 1961. 8 p. including map.
Corporate history,
1847 - 1893 Exhibit A 1 p. table
Stations as
of November 1, 1961 Exhibit D 3 p. list
Interstate Commerce Commission. Valuation Docket
No. 307. In the matter of the
tentative valuation of the properties of Rutland
Railroad Company, Addison Railroad Company.
Protest. Dated December 6, 1922. 47 p.
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance
Docket No. 21870. In the matter of application of Rutland
Railway Corporation
authorizing the abandonment
by said Rutland Railway Corporation
of its entire line of railroad.
Return to questionnaire. Dated: December 4, 1961.
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance
Docket No. 21744. Part One: Application of Central
Vermont Railway to abandon its property and operations
between East Alburg, Vermont,
and Rouses Point, New York.
Finance Docket No. 21745
Part Two: Application of Central Vermont Railway
to
operate its trains under a trackage contract,
between East Alburg, Vermont, and Rouses Point,
New York, via Cantic, Quebec, Canada. [1961]
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance
docket No. 21870. In the matter of the application
of the Rutland Railway Corporation
for a
Certificate of Public convenience and necessity
authorizing the abandonment by said Rutland Railway
Corporation of it entire line of railroad.
Dated 3/22/62. 9 p.
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance
Docket No. 21870. In the matter of
Rutland Railway Corporation Abandonment Entire
Line. Conditions requested by Railway Labor Executives'
Association in the event certificate permitting
abandonment should be granted. Due Date: May 15, 1962. 9 p.
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance
Docket No. 21870. In the matter of Rutland Railway
Corporation Abandonment Entire Line. Conditions
requested by Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
in the event certificate permitting abandonment
should be granted. Due Date: May 15, 1962. 8 p.
Interstate Commerce Commission. Finance Docket
No. 21870. Order. Rutland Railway Corporation
abandonment of entire line. Service Date: April
30, 1963. 1 p.
Interstate Commerce Commission Railroad Valuation Records (Donated by Steve
Mumley)
"Most valuation records were
created between 1915 and 1920 by the ICC and railroad engineers
who undertook a massive project to inventory almost
every aspect
of the U. S. railroad system for the purpose of
determining a net worth for each railroad.
This value was then used to calculate passenger
and freight rates."
The following volumes are being donated to the
Rutland Railroad Archives:
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 1 Building Coll.
New York Central Railroad Company. Valuation Department.
Collections and Costs.
The first section of typed forms has an inventory
for val. sec. 1, account no. 16 and sheets are arranged in order
of field notes page number, with a dollar value
given for each structure or asset.
Locations include Ogdensburg, Lisbon, Madrid,
Norwood, Knapps, Winthrop & Brasher,
North Lawrence, Moira, Brushton, Bangor, Malone,
Burke, Chateaugay, Cherubusco, Clinton Mills,
Brandy Brook, Ellenburgh, Forest,
Irona, Altona, Woods Falls, Moers Forks, Moers Jct., Champlain,
Rouses Pt. Jct., Rouses Pt.
The second section of typed forms has an inventory
for val. sec. 1, account no. 17 and sheets are arranged
in order of field notes page number.
Locations include Ogdensburg, Lisbon, Madrid,
Norwood, Knapps, Winthrop, North Lawrence, Moira,
Brushton, Bangor, Malone,
Malone Jct., Burke, Chateaugay, Cherubusco, Ellenburgh,
Forest, Altona, Moers Forks, Moers Jct., Champlain, Rouses Pt..
The third section of typed forms has an inventory
for val. sec. 1, account no. 18, and sheets are arranged
in order of field notes
page number.
Locations include Ogdensburg, Norwood, Brushton, Bangor,
Malone, Chateaugay, Cherubusco,
Altona, Rouses Pt.
The third section of typed forms has an inventory
for val. sec. 1, account no. 19, and sheets are arranged
in order of field notes
page number.
Location included is Norwood.
The third section of typed forms has an inventory
for val. sec. 1, account no. 20, and sheets are arranged
in order of field notes
page number.
Locations include Ogdensburg, Norwood, Moira,
Malone, and Rouses Pt.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 1 Cross Sections
Drawings and measurements for Rutland Railroad
land occupied by Ogdensburg Terminal Co.
elevator at Ogdensburg, NY. Index pages
are in
the front of the volume. Some drawings are on graph paper. 245 pages,
dated from the first five months of 1917.
All pages are rubber stamped by L.
L. Wiggins and dated July 31, 1917.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 1 Chaining Notes ORIGINAL
Printed header at the top of each page is Valuation
Department, Rutland Railroad Company
and Ogdensburg has been written in as the
operating division. 550 pages are dated from April to August 1916.
Measurements,
drawings and information are handwritten in pencil.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 1 _______ Inventory
The index page in the front of the volume indicates
this volume contains the inventory notes for the
Ogdensburg Division of the
Rutland Railroad, from Ogdensburg to Rouses Point, NY.
Includes
memos to the building party, structural party, signal party, land party, and
roadway party.
361 pages plus 9 pages of inventory notes for the Ogdensburg
Division in Joint Ownership with
the C. V. R. R. for the trestle over Lake Champlain
in NY state.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 1 Bridge Inventory
This volume provides specifications for bridges
of the Rutland Rail Road, ICC Acct. no. 6.
Some pages are for the Ogdensburg
Division. Bridge locations are typically given in number combinations,
such
as 6037 + 49.
Some drawings show details of property at Ogdensburg,Rouses Point,
and Malone, NY
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 1 Building Computations
The printed header on most pages is Estimate for
Typical Buildings, Rutland Railroad Company,
and individual column headings
are typically:
No., Desciption, Dimensions, Extension, Quantity, Unit. Various
pagings.
Some pages have a printed header for New York Central Lines
and the
locations are in NY.
Columns on most pages have been completed in pencil and
dates on pages vary from 1919 to 1922.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 2 Building Inventory.
Large three ring binder has photocopies of forms
with a printed header for either the Interstate Commerce
Commission, Division
of Valuation of the Rutland Railroad Company,
Valuation Department.
Includes descriptions, drawings and measurements. Pages
are all dated 1917 and
most appear to be for the Main Line Division.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 2 Building Computations
Pages have printed headers for either "Estimate
for Typical Buildings, Rutland Railroad Company" or
"New York Central
Lines...Collection of Pay Items."
Includes
several hundred pages of structural descriptions and dimensions for buildings
at various locations in Vermont.
Pages range in date from 1919 to 1922.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 2 ________ Inventory
The inventory notes at the front of the volume
indicates this volume is an inventory of the Main Line
from White Creek, NY
to Rutland, VT. Includes memos to the structural
party, building party,
and land party, with a memo from the Signal party. Includes
detailed costs for the elimination
of several grade crossings, including
Shaftsbury, White's Crossing (north of Proctor), Brandon,
Middlebury, Vergennes,
Charlotte, Shelburne, Lakeside (Burlington), and Double Road (south
of Proctor).
Includes typed pages with information on the River Street bridge
and the Pine Street Tunnel in Rutland.
Some pages relate to property jointly owned by the Rutland Rail Road and the Central
Vermont Railway.
Many pages are dated 1917 and have rubber stamp approval by
L. L. Wiggins, Sep 24, 1917.
Includes a few sketches,
including track layouts, culverts, and sign posts.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 2 Building Coll.
Page header for all pages is for The New York
Central Railroad Company, Valuation Department,
Collections and Cost. Column
headings are Character of property and description,
type, date built,
condition percent, unit, number of units, and cost of reproduction:
per unit / amount / new total / less depreciation.
Information
on all sheets is typewritten, and includes ICC account numbers 6, 16, 17, 18
and 20.
Locations in the account no. 16 section include
Rouses Pt., North Bennington, South Shaftsbury,
Shaftsbury, Arlington, Manchester,
East Dorset, Danby, South Wallingford, Wallingford,
Rutland,
Center Rutland, Proctor, Pittsford, Florence, Brandon, Leicester Jct.,
Salisbury, Middlebury, Beldens,
Spring Grove, New Haven
Jct., Vergennes, Ferrisburg, North Ferrisburg, Thompsons Pt.,
Charlotte, Shelburne,
Queen City Park, Burlington, Star Farm Beach, South Hero, Grand Isle,
Abnaki,
North Hero, Isle LaMotte, and Alburgh.
Locations in the account no. 17 section include
North Bennington, South Shaftsbury, Shaftsbury,
Arlington, Manchester, East
Dorset, North Dorset, Danby, South Wallingford,
Wallingford, Rutland,
Proctor, Pittsford, Brandon, Leicester Jct., Salisbury,
Middlebury, New Haven Jct., Vergennes,
North Ferrisburg, Charlotte,
Shelburne, Burlington, Colchester, South Hero, Grand Isle, North Hero,
Isle
LaMotte, Alburgh, Rouses Pt.
Locations in the account no. 18 section include
North Bennington, Shaftsbury, Manchester, North Dorset,
Wallingford, Rutland,
Proctor, Brandon, Leicester Jct., Middlebury,
Vergennes, Charlotte, Burlington,
South Hero, and Alburgh.
Locations in the account no. 19 section include
Rutland and Alburgh.
Locations in the account no. 20 section include
North Bennington, Rutland, Burlington, Alburgh
Burlington is the only location with a ledger
sheet for account no. 27 and Rouses Point is the
only location with a ledger
sheet for account no. 6.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V.
S. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Building Computations
The header for most pages is "Estimate for
Typical Buildings, Rutland Railroad Company," although a few
sheets have
a page header of "Estimate for Typical Buildings,
New York Central Railroad."
Columns are labeled Material: kind, amount,
and unit and Cost: material unit and total and labor unit
and total, Total.
Descriptions, specifications, and costs are entered
in pencil on most pages, but
a few pages have typed information.
Includes railroad
facilities in Vermont and several locations in
eastern New York.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V. S. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Building Coll.
The printed page header for all pages is "The New York Central Railroad
Company,
Valuation Department, Collections and Costs."
Descriptions, specifications,
and value in dollars is typewritten and includes facilities
in Vermont and eastern
New York.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V. S. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Cross Sections
Detailed cross section measurements, with numerous drawings, some on graph paper.
Most pages have a rubber stamp signature of L. L. Wiggins and are dated at various
times in 1917.
Spine title: Rutland R. R. V. S. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 R. & T. Inventory.
Detailed inventory of a variety of facilities, including pipes, culverts, retaining
walls, track, ties, sidings,
fences, grade crossings, etc.
Front cover title: Sidings 1930
Rutland R. R.
Detailed schematic drawings of sidings in eastern
New York and Vermont.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Division of Valuation. Leases and privileges form. Rutland Railway
Company.
Typewritten information on leased properties in New York and Vermont,
1917.
Also undated handwritten summary sheets. Also included in same binder
are
Interstate Commerce Commission Division of Valuation
forms of List of Industrial Tracks
with typewritten information. Sheets are
dated 1917.
Rutland Railroad Company. Valuation
Department. Field inventory. Valuation section 2.
White Creek to Alburgh, VT.
Includes Rutland Yd. Most pages are carbon copies,
dated from 1930 to 1933.
Laws
Carbon copy of an act to consolidate
the Rutland Railroad system, approved by the
Statte of Vermont, October 29, 1900.
Photocopy of the 1963 Vermont legislature act
relating to the Rutland Railway Corporation
[Public act no. 162]
Lebanon Springs Railroad
Folder of deeds and agreements
relating to the Chatham Section, including Lebanon Springs Railroad.
Folder of material on the Lebanon
Springs Railroad and the Chatham & Lebanon Valley Railroad,
including inspection
reports for 1896 and 1901 and photocopies of maps and a prospectus.
Legal Agreements (Purchased from dealer William Parkinson)
1904 Agreement between the Rutland
Railroad Company and Medrick Rossino re erecting snow fences
1904 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and George D. Northridge of Malone
1904 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and Charles Dillingham of Ogdensburg
1905 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and Howard J. Kingdon re erecting depot
1905 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and W. S. Lawrence re leasing old track
1905 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and Champlain Telephone Company
1905 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and Fisk & Fleury Telephone Company
1905 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and Armstrong Transfer Company
1906 Lease between the Rutland Railroad Company
and N. H. Niles re location of platform
1906 Agreement between the Rutland Railroad Company
and Norwood Telephone Company
1907 Agreement between the
Rutland Railroad Company and E. Leroy of Rouses Point, NY
Legal Agreements (Donated by Steven Mumley)
Agreement dated August 24, 1849
between the Vermont Central Railroad Co. and the Vermont & Canada
Railroad
Co. regarding the construction of the Vermont & Canada Railroad Co. and subsequent
leasing
to the Vermont Central Railroad Co.
Agreement between Rutland and Burlington Rail
Road Company and David A. Smalley, dated June 15, 1863.
Agreement, dated February 8, 1866, between the
Scranton Steel Company and the Ogdensburg & Lake
Champlain Railroad Company
for 400 tons of rails.
Edwin A. Blanchard, John B. Page & als v.
Rutland & Burlington Railroad Company & als,
dated March 20, 1867.
Typewritten copy of agreement conveying all assets
of the Rutland and Burlington Railroad to the
Rutland Railroad Company, dated
November 23, 1867.
Assignment of mortgage for $100,000 by David A.
Smalley to Rutland Railroad Company,
dated March 6, 1868.
Agreement dated December 1, 1870 between the
Vermont and Massachusetts Rail Road Company and
the Rutland Railroad Company
regarding lease of lands from Grant's Corner to
Brattleboro
Agreement dated September 27, 1883 between the
Detroit Dry Dock Company and the Ogdensburg and
Lake Champlain Railroad Company
for the construction of two wooden screw steamers.
Agreement, dated January 11, 1884,
between James N. Brown of Ogdensburg, NY and the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain
Railroad for the construction of a Howe truss bridge across
St. Regis river
in the town of Brasher.
Letter dated May 16, 1888 to Mr. P. W. Clement,
president of the Rutland R. R. Co. with an opinion
as to the re-appraisal of
the property now held under lease to the Vermont Central Railroad
Co.
Rutland Railroad Company to Central Vermont Railroad
Company. Lease, dated December 31, 1890. 9 p. Lease
Letter dated April 7, 1896 from the president
of the Rutland Railroad Company to Messrs. Charles M. Hays
and E. C. Smith declining
to accede to a statement by the Central Vermont Railroad
Company
not to adopt a lease.
Report of Stephen Little on the Central Vermont
Railroad Company and its leased lines, dated October 10, 1896,
and detailing
the results of an audit in which irregularities are stated
Agreement dated May 13, 1897 between E. C. Smith,
receiver of the Central Vermont Railroad Company, and
Percival W. Clement, president of the Rutland Railroad Company, releasing
each other from liability
for specific assets.
Letter to Clement National Bank, dated May 11,
1896, directing payment to the receivers of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company.
Decision of the U. S. Circuit Court for the District
of Vermont in the case of the Grand Trunk Railway
Company v. Central
Vermont
Railroad Company deciding that the Rutland Railroad Company is
entitled to possession of its railroad
due to non-payment of rent. Dated May
5, 1896.
Petition of the receivers of the Central Vermont
Railroad for an order declining to adopt the lease of the Rutland
and Addison
Railroads. Dated April 2, 1896.
Petition to reform decree, United States Circuit
Court District of Vermont. Grand Trunk Railway
Company of Canada vs. Central
Vermont Railroad Company. Undated.
Petition in equity U. S. Circuit Court District
of Vermont. Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
v. Central Vermont Railway Company,
Rutland Railroad Company, petitioner. With attached
exhibits. Dated August 1897.
Petition of J. Gregory Smith and others in Franklin
County Court of Chancery. Vermont & Canada
Railroad Co. vs. Vermont Central
Railroad Co. and others. Date June 3, 1873.
Agreement between the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain
Railroad Company and the Skillings,
Whitneys & Barnes Lumber Company, dated
November 1, 1885.
Agreement, dated Jany 10, 1882, between the Ogdensbury
& Lake Champlain Railroad Co. and O. F. Thayer
of Morira, NY for lease of
building.
Agreement, dated December 9, 1885, between the
Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad Company
and M. Laing & Sons, of
Montreal, regarding lease of lot in Ogdensburg.
Agreement, dated December 6, 1886, between Central
Vermont Railroad Company and Geo. W. Kellner for
leasing space in the Ogdensburg
passenger station for a restaurant.
Agreement, dated February 1, 1887, between the
Central Vermont Railroad Company and Charles H. Morse
and Guy Smith for the
construction of a building at the Ogdensburg depot for the
storage
of eggs, butter, cheese, etc.
Agreement, dated February 20, 1888, between the
Central Vermont Railroad and E. M. Tripp for
the construction of a restaurant
on station land at Brasher Station, NY.
Agreement, dated January 1, 1889, between Central
Vermont R. R. and W. L. Collins & Co. to construct
a cold storage building
at Chateaugay station.
Letter dated April 3, 1897 on Ogdensburg &
Lake Champlain Railroad stationery advising to continue
existing leases rather than renew them.
Letter dated April 11, 1898 on Ogdensburg &
Lake Champlain Railroad stationery regarding a lease
in favor of A. E. Wilkinson.
Bill of complaint filed in U. S. Circuit Court
Northern District of New York on October 24, 1896 requesting
foreclosure of
mortgage against the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad.
Answer to amended bill of complaint in the U.
S. Circuit Court for Northern District of New York. Stuyvesant
Fish and William
J. Averell,
against Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad
Co. and others. Dated January 24, 1890.
Decree of foreclosure and sale in Fish vs. Ogdensburg
& Lake Champlain R. R. Co., dated February 15, 1898.
Indenture dated May 10, 1898 relating to foreclosure
of mortgage made by the Ogdensburg &
Lake Champlain Railroad.
Indenture dated December 15, 1898 between the
Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railway Company
and the Central Trust of New
York.
Agreement dated April 3, 1886 between the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain Railroad Company
and the Norwood and Montreal Railroad Company.
Lease contract dated June 1, 1889 between the
Saratoga & St. Lawrence Railroad Company
and the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain
Railroad Company.
Memorandum of agreement, dated April 14, 1892,
between the Malone & St. Lawrence Railway Company,
the St. Lawrence &
Adirondack
Railroad Company and the Central Vermont Railroad
Company.
Indenture dated June 1, 1900 between the Central
Trust Company of New York
and the Central Vermont Railway Company.
Legal agreement, dated November 23, 1867, conveying
assets of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad
Company to the Rutland Railroad
Company.
Indenture dated January 1, 1879 between the Ogdensburg
& Lake Champlain Railroad Company
and the Skillings, Whitney's & Barnes
Lumber Company re leasing land and buildings at
Ogdensburg.
Legal agreement dated December 31, 1890 to lease
the Rutland Railroad Company
to the Central Vermont Railroad Company, effective
January 1, 1891
Agreement covering Malone station, dated April 14, 1892
Memorandum of agreement dated April 14, 1892 between
the Malone & St. Lawrence Railway Company,
the St. Lawrence & Adirondack
Railroad Company and the Central Vermont Railroad
Company as lessee
of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad Company concerning
the construction
of a passenger station in Malone,
NY.
Agreement dated July 30, 1901 between the Rutland
Railroad Company and the Bennington and Rutland
Railway Company. Car trust agreement
dated March 1901 for $495,000 between the Guaranty
Trust Company
of New York and the Rutland Railroad Company.
Agreement dated October 1, 1902 between the Rutland
Railroad Company and the Eagle Square Manufacturing
Company relating to side-track in South Shaftsbury.
Agreement between the Rutland Railroad
Company and Vermont Milk Chocolate Company,
dated April 16, 1917, regarding
construction of a side track in Burlington.
Agreement dated March 31, 1919 for Stephen C.
Millett to sell ten thousand tons of ice stored in
the ice house in Alburgh
to the Rutland Railroad for $25,000.
Agreement dated March 31, 1919 for Stephen C. Millett
to sell all tools and equipment in the Alburgh icehouse
to the Rutland Railroad
for $2,000.
Agreement dated September 1, 1923 between the
Rutland Railroad Company and several woolen mills
in regard to a portable unloader in the village of Ludlow.
Agreement dated March 3, 1965 between the Rutland
Railway Corporation and the State of Vermont
conveying property in the city
of Burlington to the state.
Agreement dated March
3, 1965 between the Rutland Railway Corporation and the State of Vermont
for
the Rutland Railway to withdraw its invitation for bids on land in the towns of
Colchester, South Hero,
Grand Isle, North Hero and Alburgh.
Legal Proceedings (Donated by Steven Mumley)
Folder of legal proceedings relating
to the Rutland Railway abandonment, 9/17/60 - 10/2/64
Folder of legal proceedings relating to the Rutland
Railway abandonment,
Oct. 28, 1961 to Sept. 3, 1963, including the following
items:
Before the Interstate Commerce Commission. In
the matter of application of Rutland Railway Corporation…
for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing
the abandonment by said Rutland Railway
Corporation of it entire line of railroad.
Application. Dated: October 28, 1961.
[with original
signature of William I. Ginsburg.] 5 p.
Manuscript material (Donated by Steven Mumley, May, 2004 and December 2006)
Inventory from April 1st, 1851
to Dec. 1st, 1865. Detailed account book of the inventory of stock, tools,
and
fixtures of the Rutland & Burlington
Rail Road machine shop. [The Rutland & Burlington
was chartered by the Vermont Legislature
in November 1847 and was reorganized as the Rutland
Railroad Company on July 9, 1867.]
Record of cars damaged & destroyed in wrecks.
[A detailed handwritten account book beginning with
the Alburg wreck on April 15, 1902 and ending with Dec. 21, 1924]
Inventory of the Rutland Division of the C. V.
R. R., covering 1873 and 1874.
Inventory includes locomotives, tools, machinery,
and freight cars.
Locations included are Rutland, Bellows Falls,
Burlington, and Charlestown, Mass.
Inventory of the Harlem Extension RR is included
on p. 101+.
Handwritten account book of additions and betterments
to locomotives, passenger cars, and other cars,
covering 1902-21. Includes costs
of specific betterments, such as improved corner
irons, etc.
Handwritten account of Way-Bills of Merchandise
Transported by Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain
Railroad Company, covering November
1867 to February 1870. Notes on inside front cover
state,
"This book found in R. R. station week of 9-19-55. R. R. Bldgs being
wrecked at this time.
Stanley Crawford. Burke, N. Y. 9-19-55" and "Bellows
Falls, Vermont. Saturday May 16, 1992.
Presented to the Rutland Railroad Historical
Society, care of Steve Mumley, by Stan J. Smaill."
Memoranda for Traveling Auditors, 5 p.
Group of
about ten payroll vouchers for the Harlem Extension Railroad, all dated 1871.
Petition signed by residents of
Burlington for the construction of a new union passenger station,
dated July
27, 1889.
Statement recommending that the managers of the
Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. vote in favor of a proposed
lease of the Rutland Railroad to the Central Vermont Company.
Dated November 7, 1895.
Summary of trackage agreement with
Canadian Pacific Ry. Date of contract November 1, 1901.
Warranty Deed dated January 5,
1909 conveying land in Alburgh from Norman and Leonora Marvin (?)
to Stephen
C. Millett for $100.
Warrenty deed dated October 18, 1918 conveying
land in Alburgh from George and Livia Sabre
to Stephen C. Millett.
Deed dated January 3, 1922 between
the C. Brigham Company and the Rutland Railroad Company
regarding the ice house
properties at Larrabbes Point, and the milk platforms at
Larrabbees Point,
Hough's Crossing, Orwell, Shoreham and Whiting.
Rutland Railroad Co. New England
Passenger Service Cost Study. June 1925. Rutland, VT: Office
of Auditor, Nov.
5, 1925.
Chronological listing of rolling stock retired
from service, with cause, location, and date the equipment
was built. Covers
from January 1925 to December 1940. The first 77 pages of the 500
pages have
handwritten information and the remaining pages are blank.
Plan of reorganization of Rutland Railroad Company.
Dated as of April 10, 1943. 14 p.
Central Vermont Railway Company account book of
freight received at East Berkshire, covering
from October 1912 to May 1913.
Some water and mold damage to the top right corner
of pages.
Account book listing the amount of bond for station
agents at various RR stations in Vermont,
other New England states and as far
west as Kansas City, Missouri. Also includes dates of
auditing of accounts
for each station with brief notes about the audit. Covers from 1888 to 1924,
with an A - Z index in the front for towns and cities included.
Several typewritten enclosures were tucked in
the inside back:
List of Questions for Attention of Traveling Auditors
at Examination, 3 p.
General Instructions Tending to Uniform Station
Accounting, 3 p.
Rutland Railroad Company. General
notice of exchange of securities under plan of reorganization.
November 10,
1950. 4 p.
Report of Special Committee appointed
by the governing board of the Maritime Association
on May 11, 1951 to review
the report of the New England Railroad Committee
to the governors of the New England states.
Tabulation showing information
covering acquisition of right of way from Ogdensburg to Norwood,
with cover
letter dated December 22, 1965.
List of land owned by the Rutland Railway Corporation
from Bennington to Burlington.
Rutland Corporation list of deeds for 1965 and
1966.
Report of Special Committee appointed by the governing
board of the Maritime Association
on May 11, 1951 to review the report of the
New England Railroad Committee to the governors
of the New England states.
Folder of material relating to
Rutland Railroad stocksw and stockholders.
Maps
1902 Railroad Map of Vermont
Mechanical Drawings (Donated by Phil Jordan)
Rutland R. R. Floor Plan: New
Blacksmith Shop, Rutland, Vt. 8-8-19 approx. 23" x 30"
New York Central Lines. Mechanical
Department. Drawing for ash pan: hopper bottom: slide operated by hand.
Drawing
no. X90277. Rutland. Aug 27-09 approx. 25" x 36 ½"Used on ...locos class B2a"
New York Central Lines. Mechanical
Department. Drawing for crane door: new boiler shop.
Drawing no. X90441. Rutland.
Jan 11-11. approx. 24 ½" x 36 ½"
New York Central Lines. Mechanical
Department. Drawing for details of operating rigging:
crane door: new boiler
shop.
Drawing no. X90442. Rutland. Jan. 11-11. approx. 23" x 36 ½"
Rutland Railroad. Mechanical Department. Drawing for grate arrangement. March 10, 1925. approx. 24" x 36 ½"
Rutland Railroad Co. Mechanical
Department. Drawing of cinder conveyor details.
X-3 Rutland. July 3, 1926. approx.
22 ¼" x 34 ¼"
Rutland Railroad Company. Mechanical
Department. Drawing of grate arrangement. X-12 Dr. 514-S-37690.
Rutland. Dec.
9, 1930. approx. 22 ¼" x 34"
Rutland Railroad Company. Mechanical
Department. Drawing of boiler detail. X-23 Rutland.
10-4-45. approx. 21"
x 32" Replacement section, 3rd course top. Loco
class K-2 Eng. 84, 85"
Rutland Railroad Company. Mechanical
Department. Drawing of boiler details. 1st course & front tube sheet.
X-28
Rutland. 4-7-50.
New York Central Lines. Mechanical
Department. Drawing of ash pan: hopper bottom:
slide operated by air or hand.
Drawing no. X-90044. Rutland. Jan 8, -08 approx. 24 ½" x 36"
New York Central Lines. Mechanical
Department. Drawing of crate arrangement.
Drawing no. X-90025. Rutland. Aug.
16, -07. approx. 25" x 36 ¾"
Mechanical Drawings (Donated by Steven Mumley)
Rutland 2-8-0 locomotive plans. G-34 American Locomotive Company
Boiler February 14, 1910 23 ½" x 30"
Boiler February 14, 1910 23 ½" x 59"
Boiler February 14, 1910 23 ½" x 29
½"
Boiler February 14, 1910 24" x 60"
Boiler details & attachments
Expansion stay October
30, 1907 12" x 18"
Radial stay February
15, 1905 12" x 18"
Radial stay June
26, 1905 12" x 18"
Radial stay June
26, 1905 12" x 18"
Tube sheet stay
April 10, 1906 12" x 18"
Cab
Steel July 20, 1908
23 ½" x 41 ½"
Erecting card
280 class January
31, 1907 25" x 65"
280 class April
6, 1907 25" x 65"
280 class April
6, 1907 25" x 65"
Frame
Cast steel February
16, 1907 12" x 60"
Piping
Between engine &
tender January 23, 1907 18" x 23 ½"
Tender February
28, 1905 12" x 18"
Sand box
Cover October 5,
1905 12" x 18"
Smoke box
Arrangement March
28, 1907 18" x 24"
Spring rigging
Arrangement February
21, 1910 12" x 59 ½"
Tank handle November 10, 1896 13 ½"
x 20 ½"
Tank handle December 4, 1907 14" x 18 ½"
Tank ladder November 6, 1902 14" x 19 ½"
Tender frame
Channel iron June
4, 1909 24" x 59"
Tender tank December 30, 1904 24" x 41 ½"
Tender tank April 10, 1907 18" x 24"
Wheels
56' C. S. Driving
Wheel Center January 18, 1907 18" x 24"
Driving wheel key
December 5, 1906 12" x 18"
Hub liner August
3, 1908? 12" x 18"
Whistle & rigging
Valve December 21,
1907 12" x 18"
Whistle rigging
December 17, 1907 12" x 18"
New York, Boston and Montreal Railway
Folder of deeds and agreements
relating to the Chatham Section, including New York,
Boston and Montreal Railway.
Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad
Thirteenth
Annual Report
Ogdensburg and Norwood Railway Co.
Folder of material relating to
the Ogdensbury and Norwood Railway Co.
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority
Folder of material relating to
the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority.
Ogdensburg Terminal Corporation
Folfer of material relating to
the Ogdensburg Terminal Corporation. (Donated by Steven Mumley)
Payroll Records (Donated by Steven Mumley)
[Rutland Railroad Company] Monthly
payroll ledger with monthly pay rates, employee names and job titles.
Scattered dates, 1896-1905.
Rutland Railroad Company. Check roll. Ogdensburg,
NY yard. 1909-14. Monthly payroll ledger with monthly
pay rates, employee names and job titles. Information
is handwritten on tissue paper pages in bound volume.
Photographs ["Poulin Albums"] (Donated by Randy LaFramboise,
2006)
South Wallingford to Cold River Alfrechia
211
black and white prints, approximately 3" x 5 ¼" in a three ring binder with
photographs
protected by clear acetate sleeves.
Chatham to Petersburgh
168
black and white prints of various sizes from about 3" x 5" to 4" x 6" in a three
ring binder..
Also
includes 4 prints of various sizes in an envelope tucked inside the front cover.
Also
includes a two page negative copy of an article from the February 26, 1927 issue
of Railway Age on
"Two Buses Save $1,350 a Month,"
about the
Rutland Railroad substituting buses for train service
between Bennington, Vt.
and Chatham, NY.
White Creek to Bennington
225
black and white prints, ranging in size from about 2 ¾" x 4 ¾" to approximately
3 1/2" x 6"
in a three ring binder .
Also included is
an 8" x 10" photograph of a steam locomotive crossing route 7.
Photo courtesy
of Danville Central Railroad.
Also includes a
two page handwritten chart of mileage between stations from Bellows Falls to
Rutland and
a one page negative
copy Rutland Railroad allocation of motive power as of October 1, 1952.
North Bennington to South Shaftsbury
202
black and white prints, all about 3" x 5" in a three ring binder.
Manchester to Danby
240
black and white prints, all about 3" x 5" in a three ring binder.
Photographs & Negatives (Donated by Phil Jordan)
Two albums of photographs of the
Rutland Railroad
Album of photographs of the Rutland Railroad,
including two negatives.
Album of photographs of the New York Central Railroad.
Small album of photographs of the Rutland Railroad.
Most photographs have negatives taped
behind the photographs.
Photographs & Negatives (Donated by Steve Mumley, May 1, 2004)
Albums of clippings and black & white photographs
relating to the following railroads:
Akron, Canton,
and Youngstown
Alaska Railroad
Algoma Central and
Hudson Bay
Alton
& Southern
Ann Arbor Railroad
Atlantic City
Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Boston & Abany
Boston & Maine
British Railways
Canadian Pacific
Carolina,Clinchfield,&
Ohio
Central of Georgia
Chicago & Alton
[continued by Alton]
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Milwaukee,
St. Paul, and Pacific
Colorado Midland
Connecticut River
Delaware & Hudson
Delaware, Lackawanna,and
Western
Illinois Central
Indiana Harbor Belt
Ironton
Kansas City, Mexico
& Orient
Kansas City Southern
Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern
Lehigh & Hudson
River
Lehigh & New Eengland
Lehigh Valley
Litchfield & Madison
Live Oak
Louisiana & Arkansas
New Haven
New York Central
New York, New Haven
and Hartford
New York, Ontario
and Western
Nickel Plate
Northern Pacific
Northwestern Pacific
Ogdensbburg & Lake
Champlain
Oil Creek
Ontario Northland
Oregon & Northwestern
Oregon Railway and
Navigation Co.
Pacific Great Eastern
Panama
Portland & Ogdensburg
Rutland
St. Lawrence & Adirondack
Saratoga & Schuylerville
Seward Peninsula
Union Pacific
Vandalia
Vermont Railway
Virginia & Truckee
Virginian
Wabash
Washington and Old
Dominion
West Jersey & Seashore
Western Maryland
Western Pacific
Western Railway
of Alabama
Wheeling & Lake
Erie
White Pass & Yukon
Winchester & Western
Wisconsin Central
Photographs & Negatives (Donated by Warren Dodgson)
Vol. 1 (green 3-ring binder)
259
4 x 6 color prints of railroad locomotives, cars, etc. from the following railroads:
Adirondack, Alaska,
Amtrak, Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Burlington, Canadian American,
Canadian Government,
Central Vermont, Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee, Claremont Concord,
Conway Scenic, Delaware
& Ulster, LC & M, Maine Central, Montpelier & Barre, Napierville Junction,
New England Central,
New York Central, Northern Vermont, Penn Central, Rock Island,
Rutland, Union Pacific,
United States Army
Vol. 2 (brown 3-ring binder)
454
4 x 6 color prints of railroad locomotives, cars, etc. from the following railroads:
Amtrak, Bangor &
Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Canadian National, Central Vermont, Conrail,
Conway Scenic, GT,
Green Mountain, Housatonic, K & L, Lehigh Valley, Maine Central,
Montpelier & Barre,
Napierville Junction, New England Central, New Haven, NHV, New York Central,
NYO & W, Penn Central,
Pennsylvania, Pioneer Valley, Rutland, St. Lawrence, Vermont
Vol. 3 (brown 3-ring binder)
331
4 x 6 color prints of railroad locomotives, cars, etc. from the following railroads:
Albany Port, Amtrak,
Baltimore & Ohio, Batten Kill, Boston & Maine, Canadian National, Central Vermont,
Concord, Conway
Scenic, Delaware & Hudson, EBT, GSWR, Green Mountain, Lehigh New England,
Montpelier & Barre,
New England Central, New Haven, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Reading,
Rutland, Western
Maryland.
23 colored slides
taken at Ft. Edward, Mechanicsville, and Proctor
Vol. 4 New England (brown 3-ring binder)
434
4 x 6 color prints of railroad locomotives, cars, etc. from the following railroads:
Amtrak, Baltimore
& Ohio, Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, CPRail, Central Vermont,
Conway
Scenic, Delaware & Hudson,
GT, Green Mountain, Hobo, Lackawanna, Lamoille Valley,
Lehigh Valley, Long Island,
Macintyre, Maine
Central, Rahway Valley, Reading, Rutland,
StJ & LC, Susquehanna, Vermont.
Vol. Negatives (black 3-ring binder)
Contains
190 numbered sheets with sleeves of color 35 mm negatives, dating from April
1989 to May 2005.
Box 1
4 x 6 color prints of railroad equipment and structures, grouped
by railroad line and then by town
along the line:
Steve Mumley's collection,
5 prints;
Rutland: Bellows
Falls Division: Bellows Falls, 81 prints, inc. 4 3 1/2" x 5" prints;
Riverside, 2 prints;
Brockway Mills, 3 prints; Bartonsville, 5 prints; Gassetts. prints; Chester,
10 prints;
Talc Siding, 3 prints;
Cavendish, 11 prints; Proctorsville, 5 prints; Ludlow, 11 prints; Summit, 1
print;
East Wallingford,
7 prints; Cuttingsville, 2 prints; East Clarendon, 3 prints;
Mainline, 41 prints;
Centre Rutland, 21 prints; Proctor, 19 prints; Florence, 8 prints; Brandon,
21 prints;
Leicester Junction,
32 prints; Addison Subdivision: Pleasant Brook Crossing, 4 prints; Whiting,
12 prints;
Shoreham, 8 prints;
Highway #30, 2 prints; Highway #73; 8 prints; Highway #73 at Point, 4 prints;
Larrabee's Point,
53 prints; Middlebury, 22 prints; Bristol Railroad: 24 prints; New Haven, 21
prints;
Peck's Siding, 32
prints; Vergennes, 48 prints; Ferrisburg, 7 prints; North Ferrisburg, 1 print;
Charlotte, 6 prints;
Shelburne, 19 prints; Burlington, 45 prints; Colchester, 51 prints; South hero,
17 prints;
Grand Isle, 17 prints;
North Hero, 6 prints; South Alburgh, 32 prints; Alburg Center, 9 prints;
Alburgh, 18 prints;
Kelly, 12 prints.
Box 2
4
x 6 color prints of railroad equipment and structures, grouped by railroad line
and then by town
along the line:
O & LC: Rouses
Point, 40 prints; Champlain, 6 prints; Perry's Mill Rd. E., 11 prints; Perry's
Mills, 19 prints;
Barcomb Rd. to Thompson,
5 prints; Barcomb Rd. to Mooers, 7 prints; GTR: 11 prints; Mooers, 41
prints;
Mooers Forks, 14
prints; Woods Falls, 5 prints; Irona, 14 prints; Forest, 4 prints; Forest Cut,
26 prints;
Dannemora Crossing,
8 prints; Ellenburg Depot, 58 prints; Brandy Brook Cut, 13 prints; Brandy Brook,
8 prints; Bull Run
Road Crossing; 5 prints; Clinton Mills Ledges, 9 prints; Clinton Mills, 24 prints;
Churubusco Gravel
Pit, 10 prints; Churubusco, 30 prints; Lost Nation Road East, 12 prints; Chateaugay,
45 prints; Burke,
24 prints;
NYC Adirondack
Div.: 15 prints; Malone Jct., 6 prints; Morton Siding, 27 prints; Malone,
69 prints;
Bangor, 16 prints;
Bruston, 17 prints; Moira, 65 prints; North Lawrence, 11 prints; Winthrop, 12
prints;
Sherman Lumber Co.,
4 prints; Knapps, 10 prints; Norwood, 21 prints; Highes Road Town Line, 5 prints;
Madrid, 19 prints;
Buck Road-Brandy Brook, 3 prints; Lisbon, 44 prints; Ogdensburg, 43 prints;
Prescott,
17 prints; New York Central:
6 prints.
Box 3
4
x 6 color prints of railroad equipment and structures, grouped by railroad line
and then by town:
B & R Division:
Bennington, 26 prints; Glastonbury Track, 24 prints; North Bennington to Bennington,
14 prints; North
Bennington, 45 prints; White Creek Branch: 11 prints; South Shaftsbury,
1 print;
Arlington, 13 prints;
MD & G Railroad: 13 prints; Manchester, 18 prints; North Dorset, 1 print;
Davis Siding, 20
prints; Danby, 12 prints; East Dorset, 49 prints; South Wallingford, 3 prints;
Wallingford, 11
prints; Corkscrew Division: Anthony Station, 2 prints; Beehive Crossing,
5 prints;
Beehive to Route
95, 30 prints; Petersbury Junction, 5 prints; North Petersburg, 1 print;
Petersburg, 3 prints;
Berlin, 14 prints; Center Berlin, 1 print; Cherry Plain, 3 prints;
Stephentown, 23
prints; New Lebanon, 7 prints; Adams Crossing, 2 prints; Brainard, 30 prints;
Riders, 3 prints;
Old Chatham, 100 prints, inc. a 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" print; Miscellaneous, 41 prints
(Jeffersonville,
North Underhill, Underhill, Jericho, Essex Center, Winooski Park)
Box 4
4
x 6 color prints of railroad equipment and structures, grouped by railroad line
and then by town
along the line:
Canadian Pacific,
60 prints; Clarendon & Pittsford, 53 prints; Boston
& Albany, 11 prints;
Hardwick & Woodbury ,23
prints; Maine Central, 58 prints, inc. 3 3 1/2" x 5" prints;
Washington County,
3 prints; Barre & Chelsea, 12 prints;
Montpelier &
Wells River: Montpelier, 4 prints; Plainfield, 11 prints; South Ryegate,
25 prints;
Boltonville, 3 prints;
Wells River, 4 prints;
Lamoille
Valley Extension, 13 prints; St.
Johsnbury: Swanton, 15 prints; Sheldon Junction, 4 prints;
Fairfield, 1 print;
East Fairfield, 3 prints; Cambridge Junction, 5 prints; Johnson, 9 prints;
Morrisville, 12
prints; Wolcott, 6 prints; Hardwick, 6 prints; East Hardwick, 3 prints;
Greensborough Bend,
3 prints; Joe's Pond, 1 print; Danville, 12 prints;
St. Johnsbury, 38
prints, inc. a 3 1/2" x 5" print; Saratoga-Champlain
Division: 5 prints;
Rouse's Point, 22
prints; Chazy, 2 prints; Scoita, 1 3 1/2" x 5" print; West Chazy,
4 prints
inc. 2 3 1/2"
x 5" prints; Plattsburg, 5 prints; Chateaugay:
10 prints; Willsboro, 2 prints;
Red Rocks, 7 prints;
Essex, 3 prints; Whallonsburg, 1 print; Westport, 6 prints;
Port Henry, 10 prints;
Crown Point, 7 prints; Ticonderoga, 7 prints; Whitehall, 11 prints;
Ft. Ann, 2 prints;
Ft. Edward, 1 print; Saratoga Springs, 1 print; Mechanicville, 6 prints;
Green Island, 10
prints; Troy, 4 prints; Waterford, 3 prints, Cohoes, 1 print;
Watervliet, 3 prints;
Schenectady, 11 prints; Albany, 5 prints;
North Creek Branch:
Kings, 3 prints; Corinth, 2 prints; Warrensburg, 12 prints;
Riparius, 4 prints;
North Creek, 5 prints; Tahawus, 25 prints; Rutland Branch:
Whitehall, 2 prints;
Fair Haven, 10 prints; Castleton, 12 prints; West Rutland, 21 prints,
inc. a 4" x
4 1/4" print; Rutland, 1 print;
Washington Branch:
Poultney, 20 prints; Middle Granville, 5 prints; Granville, 9 prints;
West Pawlet, 10
prints; Rupert, 4 prints; Salem, 12 prints; Shushan, 9 prints; Cambridge,
19 prints; Greenwich,
3 prints; Eagle Bridge, 7 prints;
Susquehanna Division:
Schenevus, 8 prints; Worchestershire, 9 prints; Howe's Cave,
2 prints; Cobleskill,
21 prints.
Box 5
4
x 6 color prints of railroad equipment and structures, grouped by railroad line
and then by town
along the line:
St. Armand, 5prints;
Central Vermont, Northern Division: Alburgh Springs, 3 prints; East Alburgh,
16 prints; Swanton,
48 prints; St. Albans, 47 prints; Bellevue Hill, St. Albans, 19 prints; Richford
Sub,
83 prints; Milton,
18 prints; Georgia, 1 print; Essex Junction, 13 prints; Richmond, 7 prints;
Waterbury, 16 prints;
Middlesex, 4 prints; Montpelier Junction, 8 prints; Northfield, 13 prints;
Roxbury, 2 prints;
Randolph, 35 prints; Bethel, 4 prints; South Royalton, 11 prints; Royalton,
2 prints; White
River Junction, 41 prints; Hartland, 2 prints; Windsor, 13 prints; Claremont
Junction,
4 prints; Clarement
& Concord: 8 prints; Charlestown, 16 prints; North Walpole, 10 prints;
Bellows Falls, 13
prints; West River Railroad: 43 prints; Brattleboro, 22 prints;
CV Southern Division ,Amherst,
7 prints; Palmer, 22 prints; New England Southern: 8 prints;
West Willington,
1 print; Stafford Springs, 4 prints; Willimantic, 12 prints; Windham, 7 prints;
Norwich, 2 prints;
New London, 6 prints; Boston & Maine, 198 prints; unidentified, 9 prints.
Posters and Broadsides
School
Sunday Excursion to Burlington, Vt., Friday, July 12, 1901
Rutland & Noyan Railway Co.
Financial ledger, covering July
18, 1899 to July 31, 1934 (purchased 2-08)
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Photocopies)
|
Town or City
|
Date of Map
|
| Alburgh | 1914 |
| Arlington | 1921; corrected to 1943 |
| Barre | 1925; corrected to 1949 |
| Barton | 1928 |
| Bartons Landing | 1905 |
| Beecher Falls | no date |
| Bellows Falls | 1927; corrected to 1956 |
| Bellows Falls -- North Walpole | 1932 (Trackwork schematic) |
| Bennington | 1925 |
| Berlin | 1912 |
| Bethel | 1929; corrected to 1943 |
| Bradford | 1922 / 1942 |
| Brandon | 1929; corrected to 1937 |
| Brattleboro | 1896 / 1901 / 1925 / 1925 corrected to 1950 |
| Bristol | 1920 / 1927 |
| Burlington | 1951 |
| Cambridge | 1915 |
| Center Rutland | 1925; corrected to 1961 |
| Champlain | 1884 / 1891 / 1930 and 1930 corrected to 1940 |
| Charlotte | 1915 |
| Chateaugay | 1923 corrected to 1945 and 1955 |
| Chatham | 1923 corrected to 1945 |
| Chester | 1925 corrected to 1944 |
| Colchester | 1951 |
| Danby | 1915 |
| East Alburgh | 1915 |
| East Dorset | 1921 corrected to 1943 |
| East Wallingford | 1938 |
| Enosburg Falls | 1930 corrected to 1959 |
| 1909-1918 various creamery locations | |
| Essex Junction | 1928 corrected to 1944 |
| Fair Haven | 1944 |
| Fairlee | 1944 |
| Florence | 1937 |
| Gilman | 1925 |
| Greensboro Bend | 1914 |
| Hardwick | 1929 corrected to 1939 / (duplicate copy) |
| Highgate Springs | 1936 |
| Island Pond | 1920 corrected to 1928 |
| Johnson | 1925 corrected to 1936 |
| Johnsonville | 1959 |
| Ludlow | 1921 corrected to 1940 |
| Lyndonville | 1928 |
| Madrid | 1927 corrected to 1947 |
| Malone | 1923 corrected to 1965 |
| Manchester | 1921 / 1921 corrected to 1943 |
| Middleburgh | approx. 1910 |
| Middlebury | 1927 corrected to 1944 / 1933 |
| Moira | 1915 / 1927 |
| Monticello | 1887 / 1892 / 1904 / 1911 / 1921 / 1929 |
| Montpelier | 1925 corrected to 1945 |
| Morrisville | 1928 corrected to 1945 |
| Newfane | 1914 - Jim McFarlane / 1915 / 1937 Stearns Jenkins |
| North Bennington | 1906 |
| North Creek | 1912 / 1927 / date unknown |
| Northfield | 1926 corrected to 1940 |
| Norwood | 1926 corrected to 1949 |
| Ogdensburg | 1884 / 1925 / 1925 corrected to 1962 |
| Old Chatham | 1886 / 1913 |
| Port Jarvis | 1921 |
| Poultney | 1929 corrected to 1940 |
| Proctor | 1929 corrected to 1944 |
| Randolph | 1929 |
| Readsboro | 1909 |
| Richford | 1930 |
| Richmond | 1926 |
| Rochester | 1910 |
| Rouses Point | 1930 corrected to 1950 |
| Roxbury | 1914 |
| Rutland | 1934 corrected to 1948 |
| Schoharie | approx. 1910-42 |
| Shelburne | 1951 |
| Sheldon Springs | 1927 |
| South Londonderry | 1915 |
| South Royalton | 1942 |
| South Shaftsbury | 1921 |
| St. Albans | 1926 |
| St. Johnsbury | 1927 |
| Swanton | 1930 corrected to 1938 |
| Talcville (Lower Rochester) | 1928 |
| Vergennes | 1892 / 1897 / 1905 / 1910 / 1920 / 1927 / |
| 1927 corrected to 1959 | |
| Wallingford | 1946 |
| Waterbury | 1926 corrected to 1948 / corrected to 1962 |
| Wells River | 1922 corrected to 1938 |
| West Randolph | 1892 |
| West Rutland | 1929 corrected to 1938 |
| White River Junction | 1925 corrected to 1941 / plus blue print no date |
| Windsor | 1925 corrected to 1941 |
| Winooski | 1926 / 1951 |
| Woodstock | 1904 / 1925 / 1925 corrected to 1941 |
| Port Jarvis | 1921 |
Folder 2
Packet of various court filings and legal correspondence
dated 1961-3. Some forms signed
by Phil Hoff
Reply brief of planitiffs Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and Railway Labor Executives
Association, in the United States District Court for
the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Railway
Labor Executives' Association, plaintiffs, v.
United States of America, and Interstate Commerce
Commission, defendants. No. C 63-55
Statement in opposition to motion for leave to
amend answer, and reply brief, of intervening
defendant Rutland Railway Corporation, in the
United States District Court for the Northern
District of Ohio Eastern Division. Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and Railway Labor
Executives' Association, plaintiffs, v. United
States of America and Interstate Commerce
Commission, defendants, civil action no. C63-55.
Reply memorandum on behalf of intervening defendant
Penick & Ford, Ltd., Incorporated, in
the United States District Court for the Northern
District of Ohio Eastern Division. Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and Railway Labor Executives'
Association, plaintiffs, v. United States
of America and Interstate Commerce Commission
and Rutland Railway Corporation, State of
Vermont, Penick & Ford, Ltd., Incorporated.
Civil Action no. C63-55.
Memorandum on behalf of intervening defendant,
Penick & Ford, Ltd., Incorporated, in
the United States District Court for the Northern District
of Ohio Eastern Division. Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and Railway Labor Executives'
Association, plaintiffs, v. United States
of America and Interstate Commerce Commission
and Rutland Railway Corporation, State of
Vermont, Penick & Ford, Ltd., Incorporated.
Civil Action no. C63-55.
Reply brief of the Interstate Commerce Commission
in the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Ohio
Eastern Division. Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and Railway Labor Executives'
Association, plaintiffs,
v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce
Commission ,
defendants. Civil Action no. C63-55.
Agreement dated June 28, 1963 between Rutland
Railway Corporation and Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway
Conductors and Brakemen, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
3 p.
Agreement dated June 28, 1963 between Rutland
Railway Corporation, Railway Labor
Executives' Association and about 15 labor unions. 6 p.
Transcript of depositions of William I. Ginsburg
and John W. Lovett taken by the defendants
on Monday, October 17, 1960...at the offices of
Ryan, Smith Carbine, Esqs. 86 p.
Packet of rebuttals and exhibits of employees,
with cover letter from Clark, Carr & Ellis,
dated March 9, 1962.
Folder 3
Request for an injunction filed in the United
States District Court, District of Vermont. Filed
9-26-60 by the Rutland Railway Corporation, plaintiff,
v. four unions named. Civil action no. 3070.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In
the Supreme Court of the United States, October
term, 1961. Thomas M. Debevoise, Attorney
General of the State of Vermont,
and State of Vermont, respondents v. Rutland Railway
Corporation, Petitioner.
Brief of appellee Rutland Railway Corporation. United
States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. Civil action no. 26721. Thomas M. Debevoise,
Attorney General of the State of Vermont,
and State of Vermont, appellants, v. Rutland Railway
Corporation, appellee. On appeal from
the United States District Court for the District
of Vermont.
Brief for appellants and appendix. Civil action
no. 26721. United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit.Thomas M. Debevoise, Attorney
General of the State of Vermont, and State
of Vermont, appellants, v. Rutland Railway Corporation,
appellee. On appeal from the United
States District Court for the District of Vermont.
Brief of appellee Rutland Railway Corporation.
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
No. 26,760. Rutland Railway Corporation, plaintiff-appellee
v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, et al.,
defendant-appellants, on appeal from the United
States District Court for the District of Vermont.
United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. No. 259 - September term, 1961. (Argued March 8, 1962
Decided June 18, 1962) Docket No. 26760. Rutland
Railway Corporation, plaintiff-appellee, v.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, et al., defendants-appellants.
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In the Supreme
Court of the United States, October term, 1962.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, et al., petitioners,
v. Rutland Railway Corporation, respondent.
Appendix to petition for a writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October
term, 1962. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
et al., petitioners, v. Rutland Railway Corporation,
respondent.
Brief of Appellants Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers et al. United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit. No. 26,760. Rutland Railway Corporation,
plaintiff-appellee, v. Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, et al., defendants-appellants. On appeal
from the United States District Court
for the District of Vermont.
Federal Supplement. vol. 188 no. 6 January 16,
1961 Includes Rutland Railway Corporation v.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, p. 721+.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
In the Supreme Court of the United States. October
term, 1961. Thomas M. Debevoise,
Attorney General of the State of Vermont, and
State of Vermont, respondents, v.
Rutland Railway Corporation, petitioner.
Appendix of appellee Rutland Railway Corporation.
United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit. no. 26,760.
Rutland Railway Corporation, plaintiff-appellee
v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, et al.,
defendants-appellants.
On appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Vermont.
Typed transcript of court case in the United States
District Court for the District of Vermont.
Rutland Railway Corporation vs The Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, et al. Civil Action case no. 3070.
Includes tabs to mark the beginning of testimony
of each witness.
Timetables (Donated by Warren Dodgson)
No. 94 Effective Sunday, April 26, 1936
No. 97 Effective Sunday, September 26, 1937
No. 100 Effective Sunday, April 30, 1939
No. 113 Effective Sunday, Sept. 29, 1946
No. 117 Effective Sunday, Sept. 26, 1948
No. 121 Effective Sunday, Sept. 24, 1950
No. 122 Effective Sunday, April 29, 1951
No. 123 Effective Sunday, Sept. 30, 1951
No. 124 Effective Sunday, April 27, 1952
No. 125 Effective Sunday, Sept. 28, 1952
No. 126 Effective Sunday, April 26, 1953
No. 128 Effective Sunday, Oct. 31, 1954
No. 133 Effective Sunday, April 24, 1960
Train and Watch Registers
July 18, 1954 - Oct. 23, 1954
(Donated by Warren Dodgson, September 2005)
May 9, 1955 - Aug. 17, 1955 (Donated by Warren
Dodgson, September, 2005)
Aug. 6, 1961 - Sept. 21, 1961, June 10, 1964 -
August 20, 1964 (Donated by David Saums, May 2006)