William McKown Collection

Collection

William McKown Collection

3 boxes documents
5 boxes photographs

The William McKown Collection includes photographs and drawings used by him to produce models of railroad equipment for W&R Enterprises. Equipment represented includes locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars and maintenance of way cars. Railroads represented include the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Burlington Northern Railroad Company, and other Railroads including Oregon Railroad and Navigation, Western Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande Western, New York Central, Reading Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Canadian National Railroad, Soo Line, Frisco and Missouri Pacific.

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• English

• Latin

Accrual W2009-04: http://admin.pnrarchive.org/sites/databases/Collection%20Descriptions/mckown%20drawings.pdf Accrual W2014-35: http://admin.pnrarchive.org/sites/databases/Collection%20Descriptions/W2014-35%20mckown.pdf

Ownership of Accruals W2009-04 and W2017-65 resides in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. Ownership of Accrual W2014-35 resides in the the Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Association.

Donated by William McKown. Accrual W2009-04 received 08/24/2009. Accrual W2014-35 received 03/19/2014. Accrual W2017-65 received 09/12/2017.

W2009-04, W2014-35, W2017-65

Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013

• Burlington Northern Railroad Company (Subject)
• Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) (Subject)
• Northern Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)
• Southern Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)
• Union Pacific Railroad Company (Subject)
• Other Railroads (Subject)