Genealogical Information After 1936
- Fee
The fee for searching our records is currently $27 for each employee on
whom records are requested. The fee is payable before any search is
attempted. It is not refundable, even if we are unable to locate the
information requested or if the file has been destroyed. Your check or
money order should be made payable to the Railroad Retirement Board, and sent
to the Congressional Inquiry Section, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North
Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092.
Federal Government Sources
- National Archives and Records
Administration has records on railroad accidents.
Railroad Record Depositories
Although we do not have information for records for 1936 or earlier, we do know
where some of the records are. In response to your inquiries, the
following are the depositories that we are aware of with railroad records.
(Send additions or corrections to webmaster@rrb.gov).
These records are for historians and may not have information of interest
to those doing family research. In addition, the records may not be
indexed or available to genealogists. However, some collections include
payroll records. Any information on the usefulness of these collections
to genealogists would be appreciated.
All links below go to web sites outside of rrb.gov and other federal
government sites.
- Boston and Maine Railroad
Although the primary focus of the collection is documentary material
pertaining to the B&M RR and its corporate predecessors, the collection
includes materials pertaining to the history of other New England railroads
and electric railroads (trolley lines).
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Burlington Archives
- Northern Pacific
Railway
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University Libraries at Virginia Tech
holdings includes records of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern
Railway systems. These are pre-1930 archival records of the Norfolk and
Western Railway, along with the of its predecessors and early subsidiaries,
and the Southern Railway (which had merged with Norfolk and Western) along
with the records of its predecessors and early subsidiaries. Together,
the two collections include archival records for nearly three hundred
railroads and related compaines in the South and Midwest. These records
comprise approximately 450 cubic feet of manuscript material spanning a
century from the 1830s to the 1930s, with the greatest concentration of
records in the late nineteenth century.
- Railroad History Archive
- Robert W. Richardson
Railroad Library
Additional Sources All links below go to web sites outside of rrb.gov
and other federal government sites.
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