National Park Service Special Hisory Study

1. Manuscript Material, Periodicals, and Newspapers

Altoona, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Railroad Files, Altoona Area Public Library.

Altoona Mirror. 1931, 1938, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979.

Business Week. 1952.

Conrail. 1976.

Lindaman, Jeanne N. "The-Up-Down-Up of a Railroad-Founded-and-Dominated-City," Altoona Library, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1970.

Penn Central Post. 1969, 1975, 1976.

Pennsylvania History. 1979, 1980.

Philadelphia Inquirer. 1938.

Philadelphia Record. 1938.

Railway Age. 1907.

Railroad Gazette. 1870, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1884, 1885, 1886.

Scientific American. 1907.

Tribune Democrat. 1969.

Wilmington, Delaware. Hagley Museum and Library, Acc. No. 1810, Pennsylvania Railroad Collection.

2. Books, Pamphlets, and Unpublished Material

Aaron, Daniel, Hofstader, Richard, and Miller, William. The United States: The History of a Republic. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967.

Abdill, George B. A Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America. Seattle, Wa., Superior Publishing Co., 1965.

Africa, J. Simpson. History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pa., L.H. Everts, 1883.

Albrecht, Harry P. World Famous Horseshoe Curve: Altoona Pennsylvania Railroad. Clifton Heights, Pa.: Harry Albrecht, 1973.

Alexander, Edwin P. Iron-Horse American Locomotives 1829-1900. New York: Bonanza Books, 1941.

______. The Pennsylvania Railroad: A Pictorial History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1947.

______. On the Main Line: The Pennsylvania Railroad in the 19th Century. New York: C.N. Potter, distr. by Crum Publishers, 1971.

Altoona Centennial, Inc. Altoona Centennial Booklet, Noteworthy Personages and Historical Events, 1844-1944. Altoona, Pa.: Altoona Centennial, Incorporated, 1949.

______. Altoona Charter Centennial Committee. Altoona Charter Centennial. Altoona, Pa.: Altoona Charter Centennial Committee, 1968.

Barck, Jr., Oscar Theodore and Blake, Nelson Manfred. Since 1900: A History of the United States in Our Times. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969.

Beeler, Richard E. Altoona's Centennial Booklet, Noteworthy Personals and Events, Altoona History 1849-1949, Altoon: Altoona Centennial Incorporated, 1949.

Bernhardt, Joshua. The Railroad Labor Board: Its History, Activities and Organization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1923.

Bezilla, Michael. Electric Traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1895-1968, University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1980.

Benzen, Peter and Daughen, Joseph R. The Wreck of the Penn Central. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1971.

Borough Council of Hollidaysburg, Bicentennial Committee, Robert E. Cummings, chairman. 200th Anniversary of Hollidaysburg, Pa. 1768-1968. Hollidaysburg, 1968.

Bruce, Alfred W. The Steam Locomotive in America: Its Development in the Twentieth Century. New York: Bonanza Books, 1952.

Bruce, Robert V. 1877: Year of Violence. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1959.

Burgess, George H., and Miles C. Kennedy. Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 1949.

Clark, Charles B., ed. Altoona: Illustrated; A Complete Pen-Picture of the City of Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Close of the Year 1895. Altoona, Pa.: Board of Trade, 1896.

Clark, Charles B. A History of Blair County, Pennsylvania: From Its Earliest Settlement and More Particularly from its Organization in 1846 to June 1946. Pa., Charles B. Clark, 1896.

Clark's Altoona City Directory, 1886 compiled and published by C.B. Clark. Altoona, Pa. Barclay Bros. Steam Power Press Printers, 1886.

Daughen, Joseph R. The Wreck of the Penn Central. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971.

Davis, Patricia Talbot. End of the Line: Alexander J. Cassatt and the Pennsylvania Railroad. New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1978.

Davis, Tarring S., ed. A History of Blair County Pennsylvania. 2 vols., Harrisburg: National Historical Association, Inc., 1931.

Emerick, Harry E. Official Program: Old Home Week, Altoona and Blair County, August 13th to 19th, 1922. Altoona, Pa.: n.p., 1922.

Emerson, Robert L. Allegheny Passage, an Illustrated History of Blair County. Woodley, California: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1984.

Ewing, James H., and Slep, Harry. History of the City of Altoona and Blair County, including Sketches of the Shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, edited by James H. Ewing and Harry Slep, Altoona, Pa.: H. Slep's Mirror Printing House, 1880.

Farrington, S. Kip, Jr. Railroads at War. New York: Samuel Curl, Inc., 1944.

Fogel, Robert W. Railroads and American Economic Growth. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1964.

Gartner, Michael, ed. Riding the Pennsy to Ruth: A Wall Street Journal Chronicle of the Penn Central Debacle. Princeton: Dow Jones Books, 1970.

Henry, Robert Selph. This Fascinating Railroad Business. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946.

Holbrook, Stewart H. The Story of American Railroads. New York: Crown Publications, 1947.

Kurtz, Paul. Blair, Main Line: A History of the Tuckahoe Valley. Bellwood: Bellwood Antis Public Library Board, 1976.

Lantz, Robert F. Altoona. Altoona, Pa.: The Altoona Chamber of Commerce, N.P.

Lambert, James H. The Story of Pennsylvania at the World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. 2 vols., Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Commission, 1905.

Leinback, Thomas R., Raitz, Karl B., and Ulack, Richard. Appalachia: A Regional Geography Land, People, and Development. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1984.

Menchen, August. The Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins Press, 1957.

National Board of Fire Underwriters. Report on the City of Altoona, Pa. Altoona, Pa.: n.p., 1933.

Outlaw, Louise Lee. History of the Mutual Beneficial Association of Penn Central Employees, Inc. n.p.:n.p., 1970.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Altoona Shops and Motive Power Statistics. Altoona, Pa.: Office General Superintendent Motive Power, 1890.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Catalogue of the Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago: N.P., 1893.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Corporate, Financial, and Construction History of Lines Owned, Operated, and Controlled to December 31, 1945. New York: Allen, Lane, and Scott, 1945.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. From The New Capital To The Old. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1889.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Guide for the Pennsylvania Railroad, with an Extensive Map including the Entire Route with all its Windings, Objects of Interest, and Information useful to the Traveller, Philadelphia, n.p. 1855.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Locomotive Testing Plant at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. 1904, Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1904.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Passing of the Wooden Passenger Car from this Railroad. Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania: Harry P. Albrecht, 1928.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Rules of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the Government of the Transportation Department. Philadelphia: Stephen Greene, 1889.

Rader, Gustav. The World of Steam Locomotives. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

Reed, Brian, ed. Locomotives in Profile. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1972.

Saunders, Richard. The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.

Schotter, Howard Ward. The Growth and Development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846 to 1926 Inclusive. Philadelphia: Allan, Lane, and Scott, 1927.

Sell, Jesse C. Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens. Chicago, Richmond: Arnold Publishing Co., 1911.

Shaw, Frederic. Casey Jones' Locker: Railroad Historian. San Francisco: Hesperian House, 1959.

Spearman, Frank H. The Strategy of Great Railroads. New York: Crown Publishers, 1947.

Stauffer, Alvin F., ed. Steam and Electric Locomotive Diagrams of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Carrollton, Ohio: Stauffer, Alvin F., 1962.

Stevens, Sylvester. Pennsylvania: Titan of Industry. 3 vols., New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1948.

Voss, William. Railway Construction: A Work Describing in Detail and Illustrating with Scale Drawings the Different Varieties of American Cars as Now Built. New York: R.M. Van Arsdale, 1892.

Ward, James A. J. Edgar Thomson: Master of the Pennsylvania. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Warner, Paul T. Motive Power Development on the Pennsylvania Railroad System 1831-1924. Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotives Company, 1924.

Weld, Louis Dwight Harwell. Private Freight Cars and American Railways. New York: Columbia University, 1908.

Westing, Frederick. Apex of the Atlantics. Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1963.

Westing, Fred. Pennsy Steam and Semaphores. Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1974.

Wilson, William Bender. History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company with Plan of Organization, Portraits of Officials and Biographical Sketches. 2 vols., Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Company, 1895.

White, John H., Jr. American Locomotives: An Engineering History, 1830-1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.

Wright Roy V., com. and ed. Locomotive Dictionary. 3rd, ed. New York: Summons-Boardman Publishing Co., 1912.

Yellen, Samuel. American Labor Struggles. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1936.

3. Annual Reports of the Pennsylvania Railroad

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 2, 1857. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1857.

______. Eighth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 5th, 1855. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1855.

______. Eleventh Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to the Stockholders, February 1, 1858. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1858.

______. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 3, 1862. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1862.

______. Fifth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 2, 1852. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852.

______. Forty-First Annual Report for the Year 1887 of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the stockholders, Presented at the Meeting, held March 13, 1888. Philadelphia: N. P., 1888.

______. Forty-Ninth Annual Report for the Year 1895 of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 10th, 1896. Philadelphia: N.P., 1896.

______. Forty-Sixth Annual Report for the Year 1892 of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 4th, 1893. Philadelphia: N P., 1893.

______. Forty-Third Annual Report for the Year 1889 of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 11th, 1890. Philadelphia: N P., 1890.

______. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 4, 1861. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1861.

______. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Eighty-Fourth Annual Report, 1930. Philadelphia: N.P., 1931.

______. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Nintieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors to the Stockholders for the Year 1936, Presented and adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, 13th April, 1937. Philadelphia: N.P., 1937.

______. Ninth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 4, 1856. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, Printer, 1856.

______. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company One Hundred and Seventh Annual Report for the Year Ended December 31, 1953. Philadelphia: N. P., 1954.

______. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company One Hundred and Tenth Annual Report for the Year Ended December 31, 1956. Philadelphia: N. P., 1957.

______. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Seventieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors to the Stockholders, for the Year 1916, Presented and Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, 13th March, 1917. Philadelphia: N.P., 1917.

______. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 16, 1864. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, Printer, 1864.

______. Seventh Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 6, 1854. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, Printers, 1854.

______. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 2, 1863. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1863.

______. Sixth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., to the Stockholders, February 7,1853. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, Printers, 1853.

______. Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Directors to the Stockholders for the Year 1914, Presented and adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, 9th March, 1915. Philadelphia: N.P., 1915.

______. Tenth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the stockholders, February 2, 1857. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1857.

______. Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting March 11, 1879. Philadelphia: N.P., 1879.

______. Third Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, October 31, 1849. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1850.

______. Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 8, 1881. Philadelphia: N.P., 1881.

______. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 6, 1860. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1860.

______. Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 9, 1880. Philadelphia: E.C. Marley & Son, 1877.

______. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 14, 1882. Philadelphia: N.P., 1882.

______. Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 13, 1883. Philadelphia: N.P., 1883.

______. Thirty-Eight Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, Presented at the Meeting held March 10, 1885. Philadelphia: N.P., 1885.

______. Twelfth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 7, 1859. Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, Printers, 1859.

______. Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders, February 2, 1872. Philadelphia: E.C. Markley & Son, 1872.