Railroad Archival Collections

Fred M. and Dale M. Springer Archives
Master List of Railroad Archival Collections

• Barker Collection (TRRHM) – First Division National Railroad Adjustment Board, Vol. 1 – 168.
• Beeder Collection (SFRHMS) – H. Beeder served as the Chief Engineer for the ATSF from 1958-1970. Engineering records, photographs and slides.
• Brasher Collection (TRRHM) – ATSF steam locomotive photographs and mechanical records.
• Childers, W.W. Collection (TRRHM) – ATSF engineering drawings, 10,000 aperture cards (stations plats, maps, etc.), building records and assorted documents. Most of the records are related to the Gulf Lines.
• Crump/Priest Collection (SFRHMS) – ATSF history, building and construction records, track charts, CLIC books, valuation negatives, photos, station plats and engineering drawings.
• Dawson Collection (TRRHM) – The histories of railroads operating in Texas.
• Durrenberger Collection (TRRHM) – Photographs and history of railroads that operated in the U.S.
• Ellington Collection (SFRHMS) – ATSF photographs, engineering drawings and records.
• Fair Collection (TRRHM) – Railroad books, corporate ephemera, timetables, passes and photographs.  Many of the records and photos relate to the MP and CRIP. (Author of The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, The North Arkansas Line)
• Hale Collection (TRRHM) – Railroad photographs, slides, negatives, books, equipment diagrams, engineering drawings, annual reports, folios, Official Guides, assorted records (ATSF, MKT, SLSF, SLSW, SP, UP, etc.)
• Heit Collection (SFRHMS) – ATSF engineering drawings of rolling stock and ice plant records.
• Houston Public Library Collection (TRRHM) – Engineering drawings, R-O-W and station plats of (ANW, CRIG, FWDC, FWNO, GHN, GHSA, HTC, IGN, NYTM, SAAP, SP, TNO…) in Texas.
• King Collection (TRRHM) – This is one of the most extensive collections of electric railways and street car materials in the country and contains books, the Street/Electric Railway Journal (1885-1942) and over 50,000 photographs, negatives and slides.
• Krave Collection (TRRHM) – ATSF engineering drawings of steam locomotive parts.
• Lehnis Collection (TRRHM) – ATSF photographs, timetables, corporate ephemera, building records, maps, and the Official List of Officers, Stations, Agents, Station Numbers, Etc. (Form 598), 1890 No.1 -1980s.
• McCall Collection (TRRHM/SFRHMS) – ATSF photographs, mechanical and engineering records.
• McKay Collection (TRRHM) – Brotherhood (Unions) related periodicals 1867-1960s.
• Miller Collection (TRRHM/SFRHMS) – ATSF photographs and assorted records.
• Pounds Collection (TRRHM) – The most complete collections of Santa Fe employee timetables in the country. Histories of the ATSF and GCSF, depot and locomotive photographs, and standard plans.
• Santa Fe Depot Collection (TRRHM) – ATSF Southern Division engineering drawings and other related documents 1911 and 1979.
• Texas Railroad Commission Collection (TRRHM) – Railroad history in Texas.
• Scholz Collection (SFRHMS) – ATSF mechanical and engineering records circa 1870-1990s, locomotive assignments and service reports, photographs, folios and Santa Fe Magazines (bound).
• Springer Collection (TRRHM) – Railroad photographs, timetables, passes, corporate ephemera, and over 2,000 railroad books.
• Stagner Collection (SFRHMS) – ATSF photographs and mechanical records.
• Thompson Collection (TRRHM) – Railroad books, corporate ephemera, timetables, slides, photographs (ATSF, MKT, TP, etc.), HTC and GHH valuation photos.
• Werner Collection (TRRHM) – Railroad engineering drawings (right-of-way and station plats), representing over 45 different railroad companies in Texas (ATSF, ANW, GHH, GHSA, HTC, IGN, MKT, etc.).