Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Steam Locomotive Research Institute |
| Title: | Steam Locomotive Research Institute Records |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1945-1952 |
| Quantity: | 0.25 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Administrative documents (director's minutes, financial material, and incorporation and dissolution documents) of the Delaware organization. There are no materials on steam engine research. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
The Steam Locomotive Research Institute was incorporated May 2, 1945, in Delaware, to perform scientific research on the development and improvement of the steam locomotive. It neither manufactured nor sold a product. The Board of Directors was composed of administrators drawn from several locomotive manufacturers, among them the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York and the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Institute attempted to establish itself as a non-profit organization in New York State in late 1945, finally succeeding in December of that year. By 1952, however, it became clear that the steam locomotive would be replaced by diesel and/or gas turbine engines. The Institute voted to dissolve itself, doing so formally in September 1952. The remaining funds, some $40,000, were given to the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, for the endowment of a scholarship fund for the sons of railroad men.
The Steam Locomotive Research Institute Records consists of administrative files for that organization, including director's minutes, financial material, and incorporation and dissolution documents. There are also two folders of material documenting the Institute's application for non-profit status in the state of New York.
COLLECTION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO RESEARCHERS.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Steam Locomotive Research Insitute Records,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift, anonymous, 1969.
Created by: -
Date: circa 1970
Revision history:
| Administrative files | |||||||||||
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| RESTRICTED: COLLECTION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO RESEARCHERS. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Board of Directors | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Capital stock | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Capital stock annual meetings 1950-1952 | ||||||||||
| Corporate matters | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | General | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bylaws | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Qualifying for non-profit, New York | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Reports | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Minutes | ||||||||||
