Ken;
Thanks. I appreciate your reply. Not to sound like an ingrate, but
I've been to that link before and frankly, find it to be only slightly
shy of worthless. Certainly disappointing. In my mind, an on-line site
of that sort should at least be able to point me at catalog number(s)
for any potential CB&Q holdings so that I could make a sensible
inquiry. I know some university libraries have copies of such records
(I previously found a complete report for another RR at the University
of Iowa), and was hoping that one of our list members had "been there
and done that" already, and could point me in the right direction. BB
#30 on the B&W/B&NW obviously has some ICC valuation data (the
town-by-town structure inventory with dimensions and year built is
typical of the reports) so the material is out there somewhere.
Help?...anybody?
The ICC reports really are a gold mine of information and would be an
awesome resource for CB&Q fans to have on-line. I'm willing to do the
grunt work of entering and formatting the data if I can just find the
reports.
Kind regards, Rob Adams
Ken Martin wrote:
>Rob,
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>The ICC valuation records are in the National Archives. They were moved
>out to the College Park office a couple years ago.
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>http://www.railwayeng.com/dspp/nasearch.htm
>Has some tips on doing reserch unfortuantly the links are dated as the
>acrchives changed their address. Currently their address is
>http://www.archives.gov/
>be warned you could probably spend weeks looking at what is there.
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>Ken Martin
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>>I'm researching steam-era CB&Q structures as a part of my modeling
>>efforts with the eventual plan of sharing the information with fellow
>>CB&Q enthusiasts through clinics and/or publications. One important
>>source of information about the infrastructure of WWI-era U.S. railroads
>>are the ICC Valuation reports. I'm searching for holdings of those
>>records for the CB&Q. My searches thus far have been unsuccessful.
>>Any assistance will be most appreciated.
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>>Kind regards, Rob Adams
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