Railroad History Collections at Cleveland Memory

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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.

images, video, and online photo exhibitions

Cleveland Union Terminal Construction Photographs 1926-1929

Cleveland Union Terminal Construction Film 1928

Cleveland Union Terminal Video Clips
Video of the CUT, taken in the 1940s, showing CUT electric engines and Shaker Rapid cars underway along the right-of-way between Collinwood and Linndale. There are four short segments available here QuickTime (.mov) format.

Hulett Automatic Ore Unloaders

Nickel Plate Railroad Grade Elimination Photos

Models of the Terminal Tower

Railroad Union Terminals and Passenger Stations Before the Cleveland Union Terminal

Rosenberg Drawings
Commissioned by the Van Sweringen brothers

Stereoview Images of Industrial Activity on the Great Lakes

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)

Pictorial Corporate History of the Newburgh & South Shore Railway (unpublished)

"Calhoun, King & Spalding: The Railroad Years" (1985)
(Chapter two of The First Hundred Years: A Centennial History of King & Spalding, by Della Wagner Wells)

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

Cleveland's Terminal Tower - The Van Sweringens' Afterthought (1983)

"Magnetic Switch Controllers on Electrically-operated Automatic Ore Unloaders at Lorain, O." (1905)

Movable Bridges on the Cuyahoga (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 (1915)