These are some of the basic resources I use for on-line research.
Hathi Trust https://www.hathitrust.org/ my first choice, with perhaps the biggest inventory of pre-1923 material railroad related material. This includes CB&Q directors reports, tourism books, CB&Q official history,
etc. For example, almost all volumes up to 1923 of Railroad Gazette, Railway Age and American Railroad Journal are available. Volumes of a particular title may be on several pages and may not necessarily be in chronological order. Although much of the scanned
material comes from Google Books, the downloads are searchable.
Individual pages can be downloaded as pdf or download the whole/part book using Hathi Download Helper from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hathidownloadhelper/ amongst other sites. This is slow with about 30 pages downloading every 5 minutes, but I leave it running while I do other things.
Linda Hall Library http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/search/collection/rrjournal/order/title/ad/asc This will give you access to 7500+ railroad magazines
up to 1900, including Railroad Master Mechanic, National Car Builder, Railroad Car Journal, etc. which are not available elsewhere. You cannot view the books on-line but need to download each issue separately. Tiresome but worth it.
Archive https://archive.org/index.php part of the Library of Congress. Limited material but has some books and magazines not found elsewhere. Search facility is not as good as Hathi but adequate. Books can be
downloaded in different formats.
Google Books https://books.google.com/ This site gives access to some magazines and books that are not available elsewhere including some post-1922, but the selection is not as good as Hathi. You can download from
this site but, having done so, you will not be able to search that pdf yourself. You have to use the website search function which is limited. Other problems are that it is hard to find the volume you seek as they are not in year order, there is no guarantee
that having downloaded a copy it will still be available for searching at a later date, and it blocks non-U.S. residents from many items for no apparent reason, even pre-1923 material.
LOC newspapers https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ There are other sites that require payment for access, although you may be able to access them through your library.
JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/ is a digital library. You may be able to access it through your local library, or you can pay a subscription for downloading, or you can sign up and get reading access to 6 publications
a month. Individual pages can be copied with screen prints.
Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
http://www.rlhs.org/Publications/RailHistoryIndex/ Publications can be accessed through JSTOR
If you want help to explore these sites or are looking for a particular publication, let me or one of the other researchers know and we’ll try to help.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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