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Railroad passenger list

Greg Riley — 30 Aug 2005 4:11:25 GMT

I am wondering if I can find my great, great, grandfather George Smith as a passenger on a train running between Missouri and Colorado in the 1880's/90's. Do these passenger lists even exist?

Railroad Strike: 1896 - 1900???

Pauline Letourneau — 13 May 2003 6:29:31 GMT

I am looking for information on which railroads went from Duluth East and were affected by a strike in those years. My g.g.grandmother is said to have been stranded on the tracks for a week or so with all her children and the red cross went and brought them food....could any of this be right? and if so...what railway could it have been?

thank you for any information.
Pauline

Railroad info for early 1900's

piper711051 — 19 Mar 2003 7:10:10 GMT

Im trying to find out what railroad line went from the Port of New york to Dertroit bet. 1900-1920. Im not sure if there was a straight line from one to the other or they would have had to make some change overs along the way. If any one knows how the Railroads ran back then and could help me out would be a great help. Also if anyone would know on how to get the passanger records for this time frame would help out too.

Thanks, Tony Turini
Piper7110@yahoo.com

Rail Road lines

Carole5 — 1 Nov 2003 7:19:26 GMT

Would appreciate any info on what rail road lines went from New York to Chicago 1897-1900. Also where could I find the passenger lists for these lines. Thank you in advance. Carole

railroad records for corpses in transit

Trillium — 24 Jul 2002 1:52:33 GMT

OK, sometime, somewhere I read a bit of information that I never thought would apply to my research. I have not been able to re-locate the source for this...yet.The main point was that when a body was shipped a distance from the place of death to place of burial, this usually occurred by rail, and the majority of trains in the NE US went through New York City. And, quite a bit of [possibly] genealogically important information was recorded pertaining to the corpses in their coffins. Does anyone know exactly what these records would be called? Would they have been kept by the city or the RR? Thanks!

Lists for passengers

JanetPeters695 — 1 Apr 2003 7:41:47 GMT

Could anyone tell me ... is there such a list for railroad passengers traveling? Looking for how to find what train, departed from MA. to IA in late 1860's.
Thank You
Janet
jrrp51108@aol.com

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

wutzke — 20 Oct 2003 5:14:18 GMT

Are the Atlantic Coast Line Passenger lists available on line? If not do you know where you can access this information. Did they have to give their names to buy a RR ticket?

This is a new area of research for me.

Railway Exodus from Nova Scotia,1872

wthill32 — 21 Oct 2002 10:46:40 GMT

THE EXODUS - The Truro 'SUN' of Wednesday says: "Two hundred and fifty tickets were sold at the R.R. depot in this town yesterday, to parties going to Boston and other parts in the United States. In most instances they were young men and women who were emigrating to that country for the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment. From other stations along the line, people are also departing in large numbers."
Source - Halifax EVENING REPORTER, of 13 Sept.1872
Contributed by William T.Hill, Truro, N.S.

Boston, MA to Rock Island, IL in 1857

John Peterson — 27 May 2002 2:14:29 GMT

My relatives landed in Boston in 1857. From there they traveled
to New Boston, near Rock Island, Illinois. How did you get from Boston toNew Boston in 1857? Was train travel that common? Does anyone have any suggestions how I could find out if they took the train, how much it cost, would route and railroad they would have taken, etc.?

Alphonso Hodge, A. Hodge, Peter Hodge, Dr. Hodge

John Earl Spencer — 3 Sep 2002 8:13:24 GMT

Interested in any passenger lists that names an Alphonso Hodge or A. Hodge and Peter Hodge. Any line. Any where. Dead or alive. 1840 to 1925.

Railroad passenager info, Indiana to Canada

RuthAnnKunce72 — 25 Jun 2001 3:32:10 GMT

My husbands g-father Joseph Kunce rode the train from Indiana to Canada to work as a lumberjack there time and time again. What line would this be and where would I get info on the passenager list for it? Thank you

Pullman Company

Allein — 4 Apr 2002 10:23:28 GMT

Hello,
If anybody is researching their ancestor who worked for the Pullman Company (railroad sleeper cars), I have set up two lists: Rootsweb (to subscribe, send a message to Pullman-Company-L-request@rootsweb.com and type the word SUBSCRIBE on the subject line), and Yahoo eGroups (http:groups.yahoo.com/group/PullmanCompanyResearchers) These lists focus on genealogy/history of the Pullman Company which had its headquarters in Chicago IL.

IL Central or Wabash RR

vlk6646 — 17 Apr 2003 9:00:59 GMT

Passenger list from Mansfield IL to Chicago IL In the fall of 1889 my gr grandfather boarded a train going to Chicago.
he disappeared and I would like very much to know what happened to him, or where he went from Chicago.

Would appreciate any information
Thank you

railroads 1850's

MarthaCofield51 — 20 Oct 2003 5:13:48 GMT

I have a family story that 2 children were tagged in California and put on a train for North Carolina. I think that is impossible in the 1850's. Does anybody know?

Grand Trunk Railroad

Chris Anderson — 3 Apr 2001 11:05:16 GMT

Am looking for passenger lists of the Grand Trunk Railroad that traveled from Quebec, Canada, to the Port of Detroit, in 1894.

Passengers' Names, Orcutt

larthur3923 — 27 Jun 2001 11:55:13 GMT

Where do you write or go to get names of the passengers on the trains? I am looking for a transport of my grandfather's body from Massachusetts to Buffalo, when he died in the late 1800s. It would have been the Boston-Albany run most likely. Anyone have this information? Thanks