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Andrew Klamka Collection
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Extent
47 books, 12 digital files, 3 photographs, 4 documents, 107 magazines
Name of creator
Biographical history
Andrew Klamka's interest in airplanes started during his childhood in Chicago while watching airplanes of all types as they arrived or departed from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. His interest in trains greatly grew when he moved from Chicago to Wichita (Kan.) to begin work at the Boeing Company. He especially became interested in depots and semaphores. Then he discovered that airplane components and major subassemblies were being transported by rail. Research for "Shipping Planes on Trains" was begun in 2004. The first volume covered the years from 1903 to 1918, Volume 2 from 1918 to1945, Volume 3 from 1946 to 2000. Volume 4 covers from 2000 to 2018.
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Scope and content
The Andrew Klamka Collection includes the 4 volumes of his work "Shipping Planes on Trains" and associated research documents, including Official Railway Equipment Registers, books on freight cars, and issues of "The Streamliner" published by the Union Pacific Historical Society.
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Conditions governing access
Please see Section VII of the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection Management Policy for further information on access.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Please see the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Reproduction Policy for further information.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Custodial history
Ownership of Accruals W2012-32, W2016-41 and W2017-27 reside in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. Ownership of Accruals W2016-37 and 2017-32 reside in the Great Northern Railway Historical Society.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Andrew Klamka. Accrual W2012-32 received 11/10/2012. Accrual W2016-37 received 07/09/2016. Accrual W2016-41 received 07/27/2016. Accrual W2017-27 received 03/28/2017. Accrual W2017-32 received 04/11/2017. Accrual W2018-40 received 06/25/2018.
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Accruals
W2012-32, W2016-37, W2016-41, W2017-27, W2017-32, W2018-40.
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Rules or conventions
Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013