Southern Museum of Civil War And Locomotive History Archives & Library J. L. Fergus, Jr. Collection: East Tennessee & Georgia, Louisville & Nashville Railway, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, and Western & Atlantic 2013.009 Provenance: Collection of retired L&N (Louisville & Nashville) and or/ NC&StL (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway) engineer, J. L. Fergus, Jr. Single photocopies are available for research purposes only for a nominal fee. A list of applicable fees can be found on our website www.southernmuseum.org and then click on Duplication Services Fee Schedule. Sallie Loy, Pete Silcox and Robert Hunt processed these papers and books in 2013 and 2014. Description: This series consists of annual reports, books, bylaws, letterhead stationery, blueprints, drawings, maps, correspondence, reports, catalogs, organization charts, and CDs of photo information and DVD of The General Locomotive at Nashville, Tennessee in 1962. Locations: 1) Library Shelves 2) Rare Area 3) Small Individual Collections Area Stack No. 8, No. 1, and No. 2 Descriptions are representative samples in the collection and not detailed entirely as to their contents. No. Stacks Rare 1 Rare 2 Rare Contents ET&G (East Tennessee & Georgia), Nashville & Chattanooga (NC), Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis (NC&StL) and W&A (Western & Atlantic) s East Tennessee & Georgia Company (ET&G) Report Years: 1851, 1872 1874 & 1850 1870 and 1890 Page 1
3 Rare 4 Rare 5 Rare 6 Rare 7 Rare 8 Rare Library Library Library Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Company (NC&StL ) Report Years: 1879-1884 Nashville & Chattanooga Company (N&C ) Report Years: 1866-1890 Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (NC&StL) Report Years: 1907-1915 Western & Atlantic (W&A) Report Years: 1890-1908 Charter Merger Bylaws List of Property: Nashville & Chattanooga Company Date: December 27, 1890 : The Spiral: The Theory of the Compound Transition Curve Reduced to Practical Formulae and Rules For Application in Field Work; With Complete Tables of Deflections, Ordinates, Tangents and Long Chords For Five Hundred Spirals by William H. Searles, C.E., Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Eighth Thousand. Published by John Wiley & Sons, New York Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London England, 1909. : Cambria Steel: s of Structural Steel Shapes Manufactured by Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1909 : The American Association of Superintendents: Golden Jubilee Committee Reports of 1946 Printed by The Hall Lithographing Company, Topeka, Kansas in 1947 : s of Today Author: S. Kip Farrington, Jr., Copyright date: 1949 Published by Coward-McCann, Inc., New York : Roadway and Track Author: W. F. Rench Published by Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, New York Copyright: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company 1923 Page 2
Library : Deformations of Track and the Means for Remedying Them Author: G. Guenot, Chief Engineer of Bridges and Highways Authorized Translation by W. C. Cushing, M.A., B.S., Chief Engineer of Maintenance of Way, Pennsylvania Lines West, South-West System Published in 1907 by The Gazette Box File 1 1 Letterhead Stationery: The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway 17 Sheets of tissue type, unused stationery 1 2 Blue Print Map: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Chattanooga Division Diagram of s Entering Chattanooga, Tennessee Date: December 28, 1939 Drawing No. 566-12 Revised 1 3 Blue Print/Drawings: Drawing: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Plan # G Wauhatchie Yard Date: November 1955 M. A. Nelson (Draftsman?) Drawing: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Scheme 2 Proposed Line Change at Mile Post No. 123.2 to 124.3 on the Atlanta Division H.S.F. August 20, 1957 Blue Print: Atlanta Division Revision at Mile Post 122.35 124.60 to eliminate bridges 123.6 and 124.1 1 Small Version Blue Print: Atlanta Division Proposed Revision at Mile Post 122.41 124.82 to eliminate Bridges 123.6 and 124.1 Full Size Version 1 4 Drawing: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Mechanical Department Tread & Flange Contour Cast Iron Freight Car Wheel Drawing No. J3-363 7519 Signed by: C. M. Darden, Supt. Mach. Page 3
1 5 Correspondence: Rail Data, Cost of Rail and Crossties Pamphlet: Wood Identification Chart No. 1, Commercial Hardwoods by John Reno & B. F. Kukachka, Chicago, Illinois Information Sheet: Standard Specifications for Steel Rails.Specifications for Open-Hearth Steel Rails, 1956 published by American Railway Engineering Association. 1 6 Reports: Joint Equipment Committee, Costs of Equipment and Machinery, July 1, 1956, published by Association of American s, Finance, Accounting, Taxation & Valuation Department, Washington, D.C. Construction Indices: 1914 1955 Complied by the Engineering of the Bureau of Accounts, Cost Finding and Valuation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C. 1 7 Reports: Project Moccasin Bend Report by Sullivan & Hoebel Consulting Engineers, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 8 Reports and Correspondence: Chattanooga, Tennessee Grade Crossing Elimination Study and relocation of Cravens Yard to Wauhatchee Yard Report: Grade Crossing Elimination, Chattanooga, Tennessee by Sullivan & Hoebel Consultants, Knoxville, Tennessee Plan N Correspondence: Chattanooga Grade Crossing Elimination Project at Wauhatchie Train Yard 9 Pages Correspondence: To Mr. T. J. Hale from Mr. J. H. Whitten re: report of business handled through Chattanooga Terminal during the month of October 1956. Letter dated November 6, 1956 Correspondence: Same as above except for the months of November 1956 and December 1956 1 9 Correspondence: Loading Instruction for Motor Cars and Crosstie Inspection Trip in 1956 Loading Instruction for Loading Inspection Motor Car (Road No. 1) for Shipment in Trains dated October 7, 1950 Page 4
Notice: Ship only in Automobile Cars Order of Procedure Crosstie Inspection Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, June 14, 1956 Letter dated July 2, 1958 to Mr. J. L. Fergus from H. C. Forman re: profile of proposed hump yard at Wauhatchie, Tennessee 1 10 Correspondence: Organization Charts and Wage Scale Positions Drawing: Divisions including Nashville, Chattanooga, Present L&N and additions to Birmingham Division Nashville and Chattanooga Divisions Office of Chief Engineer Drawing No. H 63680 Map: The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway and Connections Various appointments and wage scales for various railway worker positions 1 11 Miscellaneous: CD s and Employee Time Tables 3 CD s and listing including some of photographs listed here: Family Photo Album Images NC&StL Railway ballast quarry on the Orme, Tennessee Branch Cumberland ballast quarry Repairs to the NC&StL Tennessee River bridge at Bridgeport, Alabama Multiple photographs of crew of NC&StL business car No. 40; rural scenes; track-laying crew outside Chattanooga Union Station Business Car No. 40 Work Train, possibly a weed-spraying train City scene, location and date unknown Chattanooga Union Station 2 Photographs Track Gang Workers Flooded rail line CD: The General at Nashville, Tennessee in 1962 All CD/DVD s were scanned by David Ibata and listing created by Mr. Ibata. Page 5
Employee Time Table: Louisville & Nashville Company, Nashville Division, Time Table No. 1, Takes Effect Friday, December 13, 1957 At 12:01 A.M., Central Standard Time, For The Government and Information of Employes (sic) Only Page 6