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Ancestry.com - California, U.S., Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950 $

Original source: California Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950. 579 volumes. California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Kansas, U.S., Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Prior Service Records, 1859-1935 $

Original source: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company Records. Topeka Kansas: Kansas State Historical Society. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records, 1935-1970 $

Original source: Chicago and North Western Railroad Employee Records. Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Berwyn, Illinois. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Employee Records. Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Berwyn, Illinois. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Northern Pacific Railway Company Personnel Files, 1890-1963 $

Original source: Personnel Files, circa 1909–1960s. Personnel Dept. records. Northern Pacific Railway Company records. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Railroad Retirement Pension Index, 1934-1987 $

Original source: Records of the Railroad Retirement Board, 1934-1987. Record Group 184. The National Archives at Atlanta, Morrow, Georgia. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956 $

Original source: Railway Employment Records. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com Wiki - Employee Records - Railroad Employees

Angelina and Neches River Railroad Company Records

Collection held at the Stephen F. Austin State University.

Boston & Maine Railroad Employee Rosters

Lists of B&M employees dated 1908, 1911, 1914, 1917 with more promised. Gives branch in which person was employed, date of service and promotion if any.

Genealogy Quick Look - Midwest Genealogy Center

Genealogy Quick Look provides an index of resources available through the Midwest Genealogy Center (MGC), as well as inactive pension claims from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. Search the index by name and/or date. If you locate a resource, you will have an opportunity to request it from the source organization. Records include: Birth, Book Index, Citizenship, Court Record, Divorce, Family Chart, Marriage, Memorial, Obituary, Register, Retirement, Wills.

Genealogy Quick Look - Midwest Genealogy Center - Mid-Continent Public Library

Genealogy Quick Look provides an index of resources available through the Midwest Genealogy Center (MGC), as well as more than 1.5 million inactive pension claims from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. Search the index by name and/or date. If you locate a resource, you will have an opportunity to request it from the source organization. The Midwest Genealogy Center, part of the Mid-Continent Public Library system, is located in Independence, Missouri. Indexes of obituaries, birth records, marriage records, and other documents have been created by MGC staff and volunteers for more than 20 years.

Guide to the Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen Records, 1883-1973

From the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

How to look for records of... Railways

Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom.

National Archives at Atlanta - Railroad Retirement Board Records $

Northern Pacific Beneficial Association Hospital Records

The Washington State Historical Society's Research Center has posted 11,000 hospital records from the Northern Pacific Beneficial Association Northern Pacific Hospital Records, Tacoma, Washington, 1905-1930.

Railway workers

Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom .

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Description of the microfilmed holdings of the Chicago Historical Society and the Newberry Library.

Records Relating to North American Railroads

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Records Relating to Railroads in the Cartographic Section of the National Archives

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Riding the Rails Up Paper Mountain: Researching Railroad Records in the National Archives

By David A. Pfeiffer for Prologue, the quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration.