Abstract

Subscription list, October 1963, created by Simon G. Elliott to defray in part the cost of making a preliminary survey for a railroad route connecting the Pacific Railroad in California with the city of Portland, Oregon.

Abstract Agreements, contracts, and financial records of the 19th-century railroad firms Oregon and California Railroad Company; the Oregon and Transcontinental Company; the Oregon Improvement Company; and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The collection also includes Oregon Railroad Commission reports, railroad guidebooks, and files of the Southern Pacific Railroad research team. The materials were compiled by Transport Consultants, Inc., whose president, Lynn D. Farrar, had worked for...