Union Pacific Locomotive #119 and Central Pacific Locomotive #60 ...

2k
American &>c©iaotive Ccsapany, except forihe Montreal wrks* 2&ese
were identified aecor&iag to builder's lists and indexed by the
History Ceater. (i tEbe snaouaeessent sent out by the History Center
stated that builder's lists for t&e 10 cosipaniss iserged into
Affiaricaa ^5ccu?©ti - ve (Brooks, l&ode. Island, Pittsburgh, Sctejectatfy,
Coofce, Sogers, Montreal, Bieksos, Mseac&ester, and lieiuaond) totalled
3^5 pages. 20 According to a atateasent from the City Historian*
however, tM records received included seme 7^000 negatives, about
of t&ich ars on glass and date between 1885 and 1920. Atsout
are on film and date list?f®ea 1920 aad 19^7. -AXCO Products
apparently considered the latter y^ar as marking the ead of the age
of steam locomotive. 25ifir© ^ere no liae Orawla^s or specificatioas
for locomotives in the collection, according to the Cit^ Historian.
Of immediate concern for our study s*ere the. l?id.lder' a lists* Of
these) this. Rogers list io the History Ceotsr collection started; in
187?j that for Sc&enectady iu 18^1. Accordingly, there was ao
reference ia the collectioa to Sogars built tftiion Pacific #219.
20.. The writer found a copy of this announcement fram the
Office of the City Historian, City of Scfaenectady, Mow lork, dated
December 23, 1959, in the librarj files of the Slumons-Boardmas
PublisHi^ig Company, Boom 1622, JO Church Street^ Bew York, -fchro«g2i
the courtesy and help of Miss B&ith Stone, Librarian. The Siasaoas-
Boardsjsn Publisloing COJDS^^; lias a large an& extensive library sad
file on railroad history* and Miss Stone is aa unusually ^?ell informed
person on the subject. 2&e Company and its predecessors have bees
publishers of railroad (journals* magazines3 and books for nearly a
century.
21. &tzs>, «T.W. Joyce, Historian, City of
to Ro;/ S. Appleiaan* March 23 and April 13 > 1966.