Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Other Railroads
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Other railroads
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
circa 1830-
History
A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks, in the United States generally regarded as beginning with the opening of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1830. At Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, "Railroads" refers to railroads and railroad-related industries represented in the collection other than the eight specific railroads categorized by individual corporate name or the similar grouping "Logging Railroads".
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
PNRA_85110904
Institution identifier
WaBuPNRA
Rules and/or conventions used
At Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, this corporate name authority record has be created to facilitate searching the collection. The identifier is adopted from the Library of Congress subject heading.
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
English
Script(s)
Latin