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Date(s)
- 1929-1947 (Creation)
Extent
2 boxes of documents
Name of creator
Biographical history
Doug was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1942 and from an early age was interested in everything that ran on rails. In his early adult years, he worked at a Vancouver Island logging operation and was involved with its rail operations. Later he earned a degree in transportation management and also worked as a pilot and as charter bus driver until his retirement in 2012. Doug was a prolific photographer and traveler and he went around the world in the search of trains, especially the remaining railroads operated by steam. In 1991 Doug became the editor and publisher of the locomotive magazine Extra 2200 South and would continue its publication until ending in 2008.
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Scope and content
The Douglas Cummings Collection includes Great Northern Railway daily reports for Skykomish, Washington for the early to mid 1940's, 1929 daily reports, two Great Northern Railway locomotive drawing books. Burlington Northern Railroad Locomotive assignment lists for September 1978, March 1979, March 1981, February 1982, October 1982, revised Ownership of Diesels dated 1/1/1970, Timetable #4, Denver Division dated 10/27/1991, Special Instructions #12 dated 11/16/1980 and some other Burlington Northern Railroad papers. The second accession includes a substantial amount of material primarily focused on locomotives. Approximately 150,000 slides, about 25,000 medium format black & white negatives and about 5,000 prints. Also locomotive and railroad research material that was collected by Doug as well as the files from Extra 2200 South.
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Conditions governing access
Please see the Great Northern Railway Historical Society Collection Management Policy for further information.
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Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
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Languages of the material
English
Scripts of the material
Latin
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Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Ownership resides in the Great Northern Railway Historical Society.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Gordon Cummings.
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Rules or conventions
Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013
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Name access points
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) (Subject)