No. |
Cat |
Title |
URL |
Description |
1 |
H |
Gateway Western |
https://www.american-rails.com/gateway-western-railway.html |
Historical view of the Gateway Western Railroad, old B&O, ICG, and Chicago & Alton trackage. |
11 |
H |
Marty Bernard photos |
http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-last-decade-of-cb-on-racetrack.html |
Historic photos of CB&Q on the Racetrack |
12 |
H |
Semaphores |
http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2016/11/an-8-photo-sequence-of-semaphores.html |
Reading Semaphores |
13 |
H |
Marty Bernard Galleries |
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=16736 |
Marty Bernard galleries on RR Picture Archive |
14 |
H |
Castle Graphics Railroad Photos |
http://transport.castlegraphics.com |
Huge repository of vintage railroad photos, including a large number of CB&Q photos |
15 |
H |
Museum of the Rockies Photo Archive |
http://www.morphotoarchive.org/rvndb/index.html |
Good assortment of photos, includes C&S, CB&Q & FW&D |
16 |
H |
Five Chime Consultants |
http://atsf.railfan.net/airhorns/ |
Information on vintage air horns, including sound samples |
17 |
H |
Bridge Hunter |
http://bridgehunter.com/ |
A database of historic or notable bridges in the United States, past and present, including railroad bridges. |
18 |
O |
CB&Q class diagrams |
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~vnlbeck/ |
Class diagrams are schematic, non scale drawings of equipment and include important dimensions and weights. |
19 |
H |
USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer |
http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/ |
Find historic USGS maps of many areas US wide. |
20 |
D |
The Trolley Dodger |
https://thetrolleydodger.com/ |
Blog with photos, but also has online store with some great books and also out-of-circulation audio records with railroad content |
21 |
H |
HathiTrust Digital Library |
https://www.hathitrust.org/ |
Online library with tons of historical books & records. |
22 |
H |
Aurora Roundhouse & Shops Historic Record |
https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/il/il0300/il0390/data/il0390data.pdf |
Massive online document by Nat. Park Service, very detailed, 121 pages |
23 |
H |
CB&Q in commercial |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0JOLiX1wsg |
John Deere TV commercial with tractors on a Q train. |
24 |
H |
Utah Rails |
http://utahrails.net/ |
Provides in-depth historical information about railroading in Utah, including a huge photo gallery |
25 |
H |
Lee Gautreaux RailGoat Page |
http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/index.htm |
Photos from various railroads, click on Selected Card from other Railroads Link below for CB&Q |
26 |
H |
Newbury Library CB&Q online exhibition |
http://publications.newberry.org/cbqempire/items/browse |
Large collection of documents & photos |
27 |
H |
E & F unit photo collection |
https://www.flickr.com/groups/e_and_f_units/pool/ |
Large collection of E & F unit photos from various railroads (Flickr) |
28 |
H |
Daily Life Along the CB&Q |
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/nby_rrlife |
CARLI Digital Collection of photos from a 1955 centennial request to capture the CB&Q. |
29 |
H |
USGS Aerial Topography Maps |
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ |
USGS site for historical aerial photos |
32 |
H |
Employee Timetables - CB&Q CUS |
http://wx4.org/to/foam/maps/and_timetables5.html |
hundreds of timetable pdfs for many Midwest railroads including over 100 Chicago Union Station employee timetables and a number of CB&Q employee timetables. These are timetables I have scanned. |
33 |
O |
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www.highparkdrive.org |
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34 |
H |
Rio Grande Modeling & Historical Society |
https://www.rgmhs.org/ |
Mission of preserving, disseminating and sharing the history of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad its predecessors. |
35 |
H |
HathiTrust |
https://www.hathitrust.org/ |
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. This source induces inventory of pre-1923 material railroad related material. This includes CB&Q directors reports, tourism books, CB&Q official his |
36 |
H |
Linda Hall Library |
http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/search/collection/rrjournal/order/title/ad/asc |
This will give you access to 7500+ railroad magazines up to 1900, including Railroad Master Mechanic, National Car Builder, Railroad Car Journal, etc. which are not available elsewhere. You cannot view the books on-line but need to download each issue separately. |
37 |
H |
Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc |
http://www.rlhs.org/Publications/RailHistoryIndex/ |
The Society promotes research and encourages preservation of documentation and photography of business history, finance, labor history, and biography as well as technology. The R&LHS has in its archives a large collection of photographs, probably the largest general collection of photographs of Amer |
38 |
H |
Archive/Library of Congress |
https://archive.org/search.php?query=CB%26Q&sin=TXT |
Archive is part of the Library of Congress. Limited material but has some books and magazines not found elsewhere. |
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