Railway Directories and Wages

Many of my ancestors worked in some capacity for the railroad.... steamfitter, engineer, car builder, yardman, general labourer. In searching for information, I came across these directories and publications.

Some have information about the railroad with a list of officials...

You may also find biographies, some with portraits...

Relevant Links

Ashcroft's railway directory: containing an official list of all the officers and directors of the rail-roads in the United States &Canada – 1862-1866

The biographical directory of the railway officials of America

Poor's Directory of railway officials and directors, 1887

An illustrated biographical directory of officials of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway system 1908

The railway purchasing agent's directory, containing directions where to purchase every article used in constructing and operating railways, also a list of railways, with name and address of officials in charge of purchasing departments, 1900

Records of the New England Association of Railway Superintendents w/members

The Official Railway List:  A directory published in Chicago 1884

Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide and official directory, London 1905

Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide and official directory, London 1915

Locomotive Engineers Journal

American Locomotive engineers:  Erie Railway edition, illustrated 1899

Report of the railway commissioners of the Province of New Brunswick

Rates of pay and regulations governing employees in trainand yard service on the principal railroads of the United States, Canada and Mexico – 1892

Railway trainmen's earnings, 1916 (Assn of American Railroads)

A comparative study of railway wages and the cost of living in the United States, the United Kingdom and the principal countries of continental Europe, 1912

Grand Trunk Railway, list of Shareholders, Oct 1875

Souvenir Quebec, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1907