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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.

Family Tree Connection - Railroad Records

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

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

Locating Railroad Employee Records for Genealogy | American Railways (1826-1900's)

An extensive list of railroad employee record repositories, which include records acquired by Genealogy Today.

Mid-Continent Public Library - Who Really Was Working on the Railroad?

Genealogy Quick Look allows you to search the index to over 1.5 million pension records from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, spanning from 1936 to the early 2000s.

Northern Pacific 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.

Railways: An Overview

Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom .

Railways: Staff Records

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.

The Erie Railroad, Personnel Records

Data and links of interest to family researchers with ancestors who worked for the Erie Railroad.

The Great Search-Finding Railroad Employment Records

U.S. Department of Transportation - National Transportation Library - Online Digital Special Collections

The library has digitized numerous collections that can be accessed online, including: Advisory Circulars; CAA and FAA Reports; Civil Aeronautics Manuals; Civil Aeronautics Regulations Federal Aviation Regulations; Historic Cab/Dot Orders; Investigations of Aircraft Accidents 1934- 1965; Investigations of Railroad Accidents 1911 - 1993; National Conferences on Street and Highway Safety; Papers By H.S. Fairbank - Frank Turner - T.H. Macdonald; US Coast Guard Circulars.

United States Railroad Retirement Board