Railroad History Holdings in Cleveland Memory

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The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection
Archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower complex, the Union passenger station, and the entire infrastructure of tracks, bridges, signals, electrical catenary structures and yard facility buildings.
Newburgh & South Shore Collection
600 cubic feet of archival records including hundreds of rolled drawings showing track plans, valuation maps and facilities drawings.
Nickel Plate Railroad Collections
Several collections of files, drawings images, and photographic negatives of the railroad, especially as it passes through Cleveland.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Over one thousand photos in many different sizes and dating from 1863 to 1962, including with the photographs is a registry which lists the location of many assets by division and branch.

*At the Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections Cleveland State University.

*Nickel Plate Road is a registered trademark of the Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society, Inc.

eBooks
- Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland (1981) by Sara Ruth Watson and John R. Wolfs
- Cleveland Union Station: a description of the new passenger facilities and surrounding improvements (1930)
- History of the Cleveland Viaduct * (1878) by Collins French
- Pictorial Corporate History of the Newburgh & South Shore Railway* (unpublished)
Articles
- Chapter 15 of The Years Were Good (1956) by Cleveland Press editor Louis B. Seltzer. A warm personal recollection of the Van Sweringen brothers by a man who knew them well.
- Cleveland Public Square Passenger Terminal Authorized* (1921)
- Cleveland's Huletts Still Standing Tall *(1997); revised 1998, 1999
- "Magnetic Switch Controllers on Electrically-operated Automatic Ore Unloaders at Lorain, O." *(1905)
- "Movable Bridges on the Cuyahoga,* by Sara Ruth Watson and John R. Wolfs. The Gamut, Spring/Summer 1981.
- "Ore Unloading Machines for Use at Receiving Docks." *(1905)
- "Ore-Handling Machinery at the NYP&O Dock at Cleveland, Ohio" *(1909)
- The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks *(1946)
- "Terminal Subway for the Detroit-Superior Bridge".* A Report of the Committee of Municipal Art and Architecture of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 1915.

*Indicates resources from the Cleveland Digital Library.