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INDEX of RECORD HOLDINGS

 

Relating to

 

The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company

 

Compiled by

 

William S. Osborn

Patman & Osborn

515 Congress Avenue  Suite 1704

Austin, Texas  78701

512/476-3529          Telephone

512/476-8310          Telecopy

 

Reviewed for the Purpose of Preparing a Corporate History

(A Work in Progress)

 

 

 

                                File Name:                      GCSFINDX.mis.doc

                                Last Revision:                  April 11, 2000

                                Items Listed                      137 Record Files

                                                                         50 Interview Transcripts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

Index of Record Holdings

Work Product

GCSFINDX.MIS

 

1

Station and Agency Status

Chicago Office of Valuation Engineer

System File 78-2-C

 

STAINDEX.MIS

1B

Station and Agency Status

Miscellaneous

 

 

2

Statement of Cost - Pecos & North Texas Railway  Coleman to Lubbock Junction

?

 

 

 

3

Robert Pounds Research

R. E. Pounds

 

 

4

G.C.&S.F. Small Drawings & Blueprints AFE/AFR

Miscellaneous

Yes

 

5

Origin of Town and Station Names

Chicago Office of Valuation Engineer

System File 20-2

 

 

 

 

6

Merger into A.T.&S.F.

Last Passenger Train Leaves Galveston

 

 

 

7

Railroading Along The Concho: A History of the Concho, San Saba, and Llano Valley Railroad Company

Also, 1937 ICC Report and Order on Abandonment of Paint  Rock Branch.

Historical file on order from K.S.H.S.

 

West Texas Historical Association Yearbook

Volume 38  T976.4006  W52Y Barker Center

 

Yes

8

Excerpts from 1915 Freight Rate Hearing

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

 

9

Inventory of Photographs

Various

PHOINDBU.SFE

 

10

Destruction of Railroad Commission Files Regarding Railway Dockets - Microfilm Conversion

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

 

11

Building Inventory

G.C.&S.F. Building Records

Yes, hard copy, but obsolete software

 

12

Complaints to Railroad Commission Regarding Operations of G.C.&S.F. - 1891 to 1933

Railroad Commission of Texas

Yes, hard copy, but obsolete software

 

12B

Copies of Selected Commission Correspondence 

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

 

13

Excerpt - "Galveston, A History"

David G. McComb

 

 

14

SFRHS Article on Construction Through Post, Also Waters extract on this line

SFRHS/Waters

 

 

 

15

Freight Car Cards - Zulu & Stock Hogs

Keith Hines

 

 

16

Promotional Broadsides

Various

 

 

17

1917 System Letter on Line History

K.S.H.S.

GC&SF.sfe

 

18

1924 Inventory of Carthage Depot Contents

ICC

 

Invent.sfe

19

Articles on History of Santa Fe Towns

Various

 

 

20

Interlocker List

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

21

Manual for Drafting Room

Office of Chief Engineer, Galveston

October, 1923 - March, 1959

 

Loan from R. E. Pounds

 

22

Line Abandonments  System File 24-1 Series 5  Updated to January 11, 1963.

 

Loan from R. E. Pounds

 

23

Research Correspondence

Work Product

 

 

24

Average Daily Compensation 1891-1906

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

25

Research Notes

Work Product

 

 

26

1908 Report on Conditions of Weatherford, Paris, Honey Grove and San Angelo Branches

Railroad Commission of Texas.  Search Pending for Remainder of Report.

 

RRC12248.sfe

27

Sundry Letters

Extracts from K.S.H.S. RR 653.4

 

 

28

History of the Central & Montgomery Railway Co. - Elinore M. McDonough, Galveston, 1934

 

K.S.H.S.

 

29

Extracts from San Saba Newspaper on the Coming of The Railroad - 1911

 

Work Product

Yes

30

Maps

Various

 

 

31

Applications to Railroad Commission to Discontinue Passenger Service

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

32

A.T.&S.F. 75th Anniversary - 1948

Santa Fe Magazine

 

 

33

Statement of Cost - Additions and Betterments 1895-1912

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

34

Excerpt from Finance Docket 18216 - Building of Sanger - Dallas Line, and Related letters

 

ICC/K.S.H.S.

 

35

1917 Objections of G.C.&S.F. to RRC Valuation of Lometa-Eden Line

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

36

1946 Letter to Zelma Scott of Gatesville re G.C.&S.F. and other roads in Coryell County

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

37

Charter, Acts of Incorporation, etc.

GCSF/ATSF Purchase Contract

 

Various

 

 

38

S. G. Reed Chapter 27 - The Santa Fe System, incl. G.C.&S.F. letters to Reed regarding reviews of draft.

 

Reed.K.S.H.S.

 

39

Bibliography

Various

 

 

40

Operating Bulletins

Ubo Kovacevich

In progress

 

41

Colonization/Promotion

Various

 

 

42

1888 and 1912 System Timetables

Purchased

 

 

43

Top Ten Project

Work Product

 

 

44

Book Organization

Work Product

 

 

45

G.C.&S.F. in Oklahoma

Various

 

 

46

Traffic Analysis

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

In Progress

47

Jim Crow

Various

 

 

48

Text on Computer

 

50th Anniversary Celebration  05/03/25 Galv. News

75th Anniversary Celebration 08/00/48 SF Magazine

Prospectus - 1878

Reconn. Report - Montgomery Branch 08/16/87

Reconn. Report - Montgomery Branch 12/09/90

Reconn. Report - Main Line  ___/___/___

Max Naumann Sketch of History  11/00/07

Max Naumann Sketch of History 09/00/12

W. J. Sherman - Early Days on The Texas Santa Fe

Extract from Griffin's Galveston History - 1931

Houston's Hostile Attitude Forced Cons.  06/23/28

Yellow Fever Death Statistics   Galv. News 06/04/89

ICC Cane Belt Abandonment Report (Matagorda)

"The Santa Fe Today" - Storey Speech  06/21/32

Letters from RRC to GCSF Gen. Manager Polk

     "Ruthless Slaughter of revenues" - tariff issues

     January 28, 1896

     February 23, 1896

     January 24, 1898

 

 

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

K.S.H.S.

R. E. Pounds

SF Magazine

 

 

TX State Archives

TX State Archives

TX State Archives

 

 

 

Dirt.sfe

Diajub.sfe

Prospect.sfe

Snyder.sfe

Vansant.sfe

Bragg.sfe

?

?

Sherman.sfe

Railway.sfe

Fever.sfe

Epidem.sfe

memo.sfe

Depress.sfe

 

Reaganii.sfe

Reagan3.sfe

Reagan.sfe

 

49

Index of Appellate Litigation involving the G.C.&S.F.

Southwest Reporter

In Progress

 

50

Cane Belt Line

Work Product (Chapter Draft)

In Progress

 

51

Analysis of Contracts

K.S.H.S.

Contract.sfe

 

52

Insurance Schedules 1890 - 1895

K.S.H.S.

 

 

53

Extracts from Annual Reports

K.S.H.S.

Anreport.sfe

 

54

April 1946 Systemwide Traffic Report

K.S.H.S.

 

 

55

Valuation Engineer System Office Report on G.C.&S.F. History

March 1946

 

K.S.H.S.

 

56

1916 Accounting Report - Cash Contributions by Town, and line construction dates

 

K.S.H.S.?

 

57

Excerpt from Night Trains - Pullman Operations

"Night Trains"

 

 

58

Extract - Bradley's "Story of the Santa Fe"

"Story of the Santa Fe"

 

 

59

Misc. Railroad Commission Bulletins

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

60

Arthur L. Carnahan

Railroad Commission of Texas

 

 

61

Santa Fe Magazine Articles

K.S.H.S.

 

 

62

Officers/Dates of Service/Biographies

K.S.H.S.

 

 

63

Line Relocations, Lines Acquired by Purchase

K.S.H.S.

 

 

64

Insurance Reports on Fires

K.S.H.S.

 

 

65

Paris Branch

Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Ry. Co. History on order from K.S.H.S.

 

K.S.H.S., Various

 

66

Chronological Index of Corporate Activities

Work Product

 

gcchron.sfe

67

Index to A.T.&S.F. Magazine Articles

Work Product

 

magazine.sfe

68

December 1953 "Modern Railroads"  "The Modern Santa Fe" (Entire Issue on the Company)

 

Ed Kasparik

 

69

1889 "Atlas of the Santa Fe Route"

Ubo Kovacevich

 

 

70

Minute Book Indexes

K.S.H.S.

 

 

71

Fred Harvey and the G.C.&S.F.

Various

 

 

72

Fires

Various

 

 

73

Stock Certificates

Various

 

 

74

Tillman's Lane    Menard - Sonora

Jim Croom

 

 

75

Indexes of Drawings - Other Collections

Various

 

 

76

John Henry Kirby

K.S.H.S.

 

In Progress

77

Early Reconnissance and Preliminary Surveys  8 Reports  1874-1890

 

K.S.H.S.

Yes

78

Discontinuance of San Saba Agency

Railroad Commission of Texas - 1976

 

 

79

ICC Valuation Records

ICC/Jim Steely

 

 

80

G.C.&S.F. Inspection Trip and Reports "Way and Structures"  May 1941  with photographs (order pending for 11 copies) - there is also an "Equipment Report" in the ICC files