User:Risk Engineer

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Welcome ... I'm a professional engineer/amateur historian living in Maryland. I have a pretty wide variety of interests -- many of which involve travel in one form or another -- but here on Wikipedia I mostly devote my energy to articles about the history and geography of the railroads and engineering. I also enjoy cooking!

Like other users such as User:Antandrus, I enjoy working on significant but little-known topics ... subjects not likely to receive much attention on Wikipedia otherwise.

My background is four decades of engineering and project/program management experience in both the public and private sectors as well as operating my own engineering business and affiliated teaching experiences in engineering, project management and project accounting.

What is Wikipedia?

I am astonished at this thing called Wiki... and recommend you read this wiki page or the missing manual to grasp some of the breath of this as a body of knowledge. As its literature notes, they are here to build an encyclopedia. See also the material on making technical articles understandable.

The policy of the wiki and its objectives, Wikipedia:Principles and its Neutral Point of View objective, or NPOV as well as discussion on public domain issues; Wikipedia:Non-free content,Permission examples as well as general PD template and US Government PD templates.

• Good articles on Engineering discussion ...
• Public records as well as state public records ... the key point in this is the connection between public records and public domain materials that can be used in Wikipedia... Freedom of information legislation
• Guidance on developing new pages is located on this page... for more advanced page organization guidelines see this wiki article.
• Manual of Style/Layout and the overlying Manual of Style.
  • Standard appendices and footers
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject_Magazines/Writing_guide see also ..Google search on wiki writing guides

In some cases these new articles involve reporting on specific very technical reports issued by US Governmental and occasionally State/Local agencies ... no existing guidelines are available to use in developing these type of articles/pages... so I have embarked upon developing some templates.. using this help page for templates... if one gets "stuck" then deploy {{Helpme}} on your talk page and ask for the help you require immediately below it.

For help on editing pages ... General Discussion on wiki markup details .... see this tutorial ... For help on editing talk pages...

For disambiguation guidance .. see [1]

For help on TOCs..

Look up risk engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

For Hat-notes... Help on user pages...

For abandoning a draft, just put '{{db-user}}'at the start of it.

For guidance on "Identifying and using primary and secondary sources" .. as well as Wikipedia:No_original_research and articles summaries ...for Templates on infoboxes and more templates and Categories ..help on images

For Wiki markup specifics, help on links ... For naming conventions

As I have learned in the past few years working on wiki, there is a lot of duplication. This is true in the case of template material and guidance for citations and sources. This Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles is a very good overview and set of examples. For more help on citations also citing sources ... and templates for citing journals ... as well as for templates and documentation ...see also .. [http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Template:Main#.22For_more_details_on_.E2.80.A6.2C_see_.E2.80.A6.22 "main article" "see also" templates] ... for clarifying material see Disambiguation ... for articles requiring paid subscriptions such Ancestry.com

For articles citing material that is no longer copyrighted and now in the public domain, use ...

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  {{cite book}}: Empty citation (help)

for US agencies use .. * {{USGovernment}} place this in the reference section ... see Federal law enforcement in the United States as an example ...

Additional citation direction ....if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en@wikimedia.org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions. See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials

If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at the Talk page for the article with a link to where we can find that note (or a copy of the permission);

If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article Talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk article with a link to the details. see also this template.. {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0}}

See also Example permission requests

See also this website for some great info on public domain info

See also Wikimedia Commons for uploading materials...

For articles I have issues with... I can add this as a comment inside of double brackets .. "refimprove section|date=mydate" or ... for lack of neutrality or factual basis ... Template:Lopsided or this

See also: ....

For editing out old texts with embedded carriage returns ...

Helpful User pages

• User:FiachraByrne
• User:Gandydancer

• List_of_wikis

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Projects I am working on

As part of my efforts.. I have created various subpages as draft documents while put all the material together rather than tie up an actual wiki page... It is not possible to make a redirect to a special page, or to create normal pages beginning with the "Special:" prefix. You can see them if you scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on user subpages...

I also am working on drafts using the wiki sandbox(es) ... click on them above to see more ... enjoy!...

Public Sources of Information

I could not have done this without archival efforts by others....

first and foremost is Wiki-library itself... again amazing!...

World CAT library search site ... Library of Congress services and catalog on ASCE engineering periodicals

Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection at U Michigan...

National Archives Access

David Pfeiffer materials on railroads at the Archives...

National Park Services online materials for railroads

Google books and related sites, including Hathi Internet Trust for Railroad journal materials... incredible source ....

Archives of Maryland online, policies ... Debates of the 1850 state constitutional convention and the benefit to the State from its investments in Railroads ... Maryland State Archives for Newspapers ... The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army. 1861-1865 by W. W. Goldsborough (1900) from the state archives.. UMD archives on the WPA in Maryland during the 1930s.

Maryland HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDING SURVEY (HABS) COLLECTION ca. 1930-1940 (bulk 1936) record group PP85 includes Little Pipe bridge, Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St.Baltimore, MD 21201.

Frederick County Court Records Up thru March 1869 and the following book of records which ends on October 1870 and the following book begins and ends on October 1872 ... the next book starts and ends in May 1873 and the next book begins . The 1896 court record begins in Book 38 ,pages 1 to 752.

Frederick County Land Records and Land Plats home page

Frederick County GIS home and maps

Frederick County preservation assistance program.

History of Frederick County by John Thomas Scharf

Thomas John Chew Williams and Folger McKinsey, History of Frederick County, Maryland, , Genealogical Publishing Com, 1979, ISBN 0-8063-7973-1.

Western Maryland Regional Library,101 Tandy Drive,Hagerstown, Maryland 21740

Frederick County surveyor records ...(Survey Record, Index)1784-1915 CM510 Film Reels:CR 11670-1 (Scanned) Description:See CR 38,446 for ret. of HMSA Citation:MSA CM510-1

Frederick Historical Society website ... ancestry website and info for Maryland... Baltimore collection of Frederick County history.

Wiki category of people from Frederick County.

Wiki category of Frederick County geography

Wiki category of Frederick County geographical landforms

Thurmont history image website ...loads of RR materials ...

Emmittsburg Historical Society website.

Carrol County Historical Society

Adams County Pennsylvania History ...railroads

Maryland Topo maps site.. Maryland state maps... Sanborn maps at LOC..

Maryland State Names and Places (1904 Gazetteer, Accessed May 2013) and the Maryland register of historical places ... A 1867 geographical description of Frederick County with a reference to the newly incorporated Frederick and Pennsylvania Line railroad. Extending Walkersville MD city limits-1941 ... Town incorporated in 1892.

I am researching the property acquisitions for the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line RR in the period of 1869 thru 1871.

• Pennsylvania State Archives: PRR and successors archives...
• Library of Congress and its historical survey resources as well as its "built in America" project.
• Appleton's American Biography a source but should be read with caution...
• Pittsburgh University digital photo collections and the PRR...

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Public Agency Wiki articles

As a retired DOT professional.. I am interested in upgrading my former department's various wiki pages to add more info... They are missing program data, history,etc. and could be enhanced to match that of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA as an example ... More on this when I get into various components on the subject of risk.. Particularly, issues to do with engineering and project management in a regulatory context, i.e. United States administrative law and naming conventions for public agencies ... I also plan to add material on the agency projects ...

Wikipedian in Residence

I am interested in supporting Federal programs that engage in the design and construction of mega-projects and infrastructure as a Wikipedian in Residence]These programs serve the interests of the American people.. sometimes we meet their expectations and sometimes we don't but nonetheless I seek to preserve the history of these programs and their lessons learned. I encourage these programs to seek out Wikipedians to develop the material on these programs and make them accessible to the public. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page if there is an interest...

Conflict of Interest Disclosure

As a retired public agency employee and "unpaid" Wikipedia editor, I have a conflict of interest in writing about some agency programs. I also possess significant knowledge and experience with agency operations and I wish to edit responsibly. Therefore, I will follow Wikipedia policies and best practices scrupulously. I will disclosing my interest on their user pages and on the talk page of the article in question, and to request the views of other editors and if necessary I will make suggestions on the relevant talk page.

See also this material on COI disclosure- User:Econterms/COI

NARA COI material and templates... NARA Wikipedia project

Public Agencies

Technical report and the use of grey literature... as well as the broader category of documents such as engineering reports, assessments ... Copyright status of work by the U.S. government and the subcategory of Category:Reports of the United States government . Congressional Research Service reports and its public domain content template as well as the Category:United States government attribution templates government, Maryland templates

Missing economic census data as well as statistics of income from IRS...

WikiProject United States Government

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Office_of_the_Federal_Register, Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Administrative Conference of the United States and their external site... Incorporation by Reference in an Open Government Age.

• Sourcebook project

Office of Management and Budget , Category:United States Office of Management and Budget, Baseline (budgeting), Issuance of OMB’s “Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices”

Clinger–Cohen Act The Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996 requires agencies to use a disciplined Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process to acquire, use, maintain and dispose of information technology (IT). It also encourages the use of performance- and results-based management of these initiatives. Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Government procurement in the United States ... this last one needs a lot of work .... Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Government Accountability Office

List of U.S. Department of Defense agencies

United States Department of Energy , org charts ,DOE Program and Staff Offices

United States Forest Service as well as the amazing..List of legislation governing the United States Forest Service good templates for use... defining new ones for engineering and construction ...

Bureau of Land Management , United States Bureau of Reclamation,

United States Department of Health and Human Services

United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA ..Policy & Guidance ... plus a history of risk assessment at EPA! ... and more guidance

Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty

For Attribution -- Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards

Federal Transit Administration (FTA)

See COI statement above... NARA materials available...

• High reliability organization think of transit as an HRO...
• FTA issued regulations
• GAO audits of FTA
• FTA Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Apportionments
• Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

  • Federal grants in the United States referencing financial assistance

• United States National Research Council , Engineering_and_Physical_Sciences , Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment , * DOE PM studies
• Transportation Research Board and its subsidiary programs... National Cooperative Highway Research Program and its counterpart... the TCRP...which has no wiki site on it yet...

NJT's Access to the Region's Core, or ARC

MTACC's Eastside Access or ESA

MTACC's Second Ave Subway.. or SAS

LACMTA's MEGLEE project

PAAC's North Shore Connector project...

Silver Spring Center ...Montgomery County website ... Office of Legislative Oversight

Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railway Administration, Interstate Commerce Commission.

Valuation Orders: these are a valuable source for railroad researchers .. this is a site that provides additional information on their structure. See also Pennsylvania Archives on PRR see also the Wikiproject for this ICC effort.

In 1951, the AAR produced an index of ICC valuation reports that identified their docket number, volume and page numbers. :Several of the railroads I am studying are listed in these reports...

York, Hanover and Frederick railroad has two references:

Docket #887,Volume # 22, page 1;

Docket #887,Volume # 23, page 1225;

For all Maryland state railroads..

Emmitsburg Railroad Company

Docket #582,ICC Volume # 116, page 447;

Last but not least is the United States Railroad Administration, one of the few instances of nationalization of such a scale in US history ...

• State of Maryland: State Government Manual
• Michigan Highway network ..compare that to Maryland's... I know ..I know it's highways not transit ...

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Railroads

See also Oldest Railroads in North America

Walkersville Southern RR

For the heritage railway operating between ... and ..., ..., see ..and ... Narrow Gauge Railroad.

I am a volunteer with the Chesapeake Railway Association . I have been on the railway track gang since 2010. I have an interest in the history of the area and the railroad as well as recent events that impact the railroads future ... I will editing some of the material on these pages to bring them up to date... See also requests for Frederick county photographs... Site on designating the railroad as a historical site ... currently station is listed as historical property ...

Interestingly enough... the Route 194 article mentions the Maryland Mid but not the WSRR in its discussion of Walkersville and Woodsboro...

Also the Crum Road Bridge is in Walkersville and the article needs to be updated ...

U.S. Route 15 in_Maryland impacted the RR at harmony grove but doesn't in the article.

Added WSRR references to the article in Western Maryland since the article references Walkersville.

Spring Bank Farm

To Do List:

Buildings and Structures in Frederick County

Bridges in Frederick County

Transportation in Frederick County

Rail Infrastructure in Maryland ,see also Railroad Bridges

Museums in Maryland which needs to include WSRR museum

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• York, Hanover and Frederick Railway

This was the predecessor RR to the WS ...

Working on other predecessor RR to the WS pages...

• Littlestown Railroad Company

This railroad was chartered in February 17, 1854, reorganized under its present name in June 10 1864, was headquartered in Littlestown Pa. The railroad completed its first segment in July 1 1858 and opened for revenue service in 1859.

On May 23,1870 the Littlestown Railroad commenced its extension to the Maryland State line, connecting with the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Company (F&PL). Ground was broken on the " Winterode farm," a half mile south from Littlestown. Major Diller, the contractor, was on hand with horses, cars, and a force of men, and immediately after the ceremonies were over commenced grading the line.

The Pennsylvania railroad leased the railroad for 999 years from April 8 1875 for net earnings with PRR responsible for furnishing all equipments and repairs. If after payment of expenses any surplus remains it goes to company. In 1888, the rental of the railroad was $20,316.75 (US$|1889).

Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Company (F&PL)

1873 Atlas of Frederick county, Maryland with Woodsborough Map and Walkersville/Mount Pleasant map ... and then further south into Frederick City

Gross Receipts Tax Paid by F&PL:

(see also The historical legacy of taxation in the State of Maryland.)

The State Controller wrote in his 1883 annual report about Corporations..."Corporations are the creatures of the State, and proverbially wealthy; but the taxes they pay, for the support of the government, which fosters and protects them, are far short of being commensurate to the wealth they embody." The gross receipts tax of 1872 was the first passed in Maryland. It applied to railroads only and remained in force until the passage of the general gross receipts act of 1894. This law,although having undergone frequent changes, was still in effect in 1913 and was a source of considerable revenue to the State and embraced all classes of public service corporations, except electric railway companies and freight car companies. Another exception is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which paid a special tax instead.

The tax rates as of 1913 were a graduated tax based on domestic gross receipts per mile, as follows: For the first $1,000 or less, 1% per cent.; from $1,000 to $2,000,2 per cent., and 2% per cent, upon gross receipts per mile above $2,000.

1879: F&PL paid $85.(Op. Cit.,Annual Report of the Comptroller, 1879, Volume 243, Page 30 )

1883:F&PL paid $270.

1884: F&PL paid $300.(Op. Cit.,Annual Report of the Comptroller, 1884, Volume 248, Page 29 )

1887:F&PL paid $266.

1889:F&PL paid $240.

1890:F&PL paid $257. (Op. Cit.,Annual Report of the Comptroller, 1890,Volume 254, Page 34 )

1891: F&PL paid $500 in gross receipts taxes to the State.

1892:F&PL paid $547. (Op. Cit.,Annual Report of the Comptroller, 1892,Volume 256, Page 37)

The Railroad had been built by the City of Frederick and leased to the PRR some time after it was built and sold to the PRR in 1896. . ISBN:9780806379746

• Frederick & Northern
• Central Railroad of Maryland

During the year 1914 the Central Railroad of Maryland,which had commenced the building of a railroad extending from Keymar, Md., to Union Bridge, Md., a distance of 5.5 miles was, effective July 6th, 1914, consolidated with the York, Hanover & Frederick Railroad Company, forming a new corporation known as the York, Hanover & Frederick Railway Company, which was entirely owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The new Company completed in 1914 the construction of what then became a branch between Keymar and Union Bridge, which, with its main line from York, Pa., to Frederick, Md., gave it a total length of 61 miles.

• Hanover and York Railroad Company also known as Hanover Branch Railroad
  • March 31, 1872: The annual report of this company, whose road,extending, from the Northern Central Railway west to Hanover, Pa., is 121 miles long. The capital account gives the cost of road, real estate, rolling stock, etc., at $272,868, which is at the rate $21,830 per mile. The company owns, besides material, etc., $36,000 in the stocks and bonds of connecting roads. Its capital stock amounts to $116,850, and there is no bonded debt,that having been paid out of the profits, which stand recorded in capital account, at $229,615 13.The following is a statement of the operations of the last fiscal year, ending March 31, 1872:

Receipts: From through freight.... .. 439,790 68

local freight............... 1,228 42
passengers............      18,597 10
Adams Express Company . .      333 36

Earnings on the Hanover Branch Railroad proper .....$69,187 48 For working Gettysburg Railroad ..$12,37154 For working Littlestown Railroad $2,665 20 Total receipts.... .. $84,000 The expenditures were Transportation. .. .. .. .$36,750 31 Maintenance of road and buildings .... .... .. 11,850 33 Taxes on dividends and U.S.taxes................ 3,332 04 Contingencies, oflice expenses, &.c............. 638 86 General superintendent. .... 600 00 Salaries and expenses of Board.................. 1,228 00 Total Expenses_---- 54,399 54 Operating Profit from current year: $29,824

                  from last year...$36,834 24

Total Profits.... .... .... ..... $66,708 93 The expenses were about 64 per cent. of the gross receipts, and the net earnings were equivalent to 25 per cent. of the capital stock. A ten per cent. dividend was made. The connecting roads which this company is assisting are the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line, which is an extension of its leased Littlestown Railroad from Littlestown (two or three miles from the Maryland line), southwestward to Frederick, Md., about 30 miles, and the Bachmann Valley Railroad, from a point on its line southward 18 miles to Ore Bank,Md., through hematite iron ore deposits.

• York, Hanover and Frederick Railroad Company
• York, Hanover and Frederick Railway Company
• Frederick and Williamsport Railroad Company
• Frederick, Thurmont and Northern Railway Company
• Washington and Cumberland Railroad Company authorized to take over Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
• Washington, Frederick and Gettysburg Railway Company See alsoHagerstown & Frederick Railway Historical Society
• Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad

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Baltimore & Ohio

B&O Timeline and another history outline

Old Main Line Subdivision: For a really detailed mile by mile description see this website.

Frederick Branch

Metropolitan Branch

Construction article:

Metropolitan Railroad Company was organized in 1853, to build a railroad from Georgetown, D. C., via Frederick to Hagerstown, MD.

1838 survey to extend the railroad from Frederick Maryland west to Wheeling and Pittsburgh.

1856 survey for B&O extension from Rockville to the Monocacy River.

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Western Maryland Railroad

• Western Maryland Railroad Annual reports ...
• 1853 survey for Western Maryland.
• Gitt, Joseph. Report of the Survey and Location of the Western Maryland Railroad. Baltimore, 1865.
• Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad and its history from UMD archives...

• Western Maryland railroad history in Gettysburg.
• Carroll County is well supplied with railroad facilities. The Western Maryland Railroad was chartered in January, 1852, and work was commenced on it in July, 1857. It was completed to Union Bridge in 1861, and to Williamsport, on the Potomac River, in 1873. In its inception it was a Carroll County enterprise, the inhabitants of that section subscribing for nearly all of the original stock of the company. William Roberts, the president, and William W. Dallas, John Smith, Samuel McKinstry, J. Henry Hoppe,and John K. Longwell, directors, contracted with Messrs. Irwin, Taylor & Norris to build the road to Union Bridge, the contractors to receive the stock subscription, amounting to one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and six hundred thousand dollars in first mortgage bonds. It was subsequently completed to its present terminus on the Potomac River by Baltimore capitalists, who were very materially aided by Baltimore City.

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Maryland Midland Railway (MMID)

ties into WS at Woodsboro, MD Ma&PA running WSRR track in the 1970's Top of current page

Outline of Maryland Infrastructure

• List of Maryland Railroads

Pennsylvania Railroad

There are a variety of conflicts and gaps among these article as well as busted links.... This is my project!... as well as tying it into the WSRR articles above...

Pennsylvania_Railroad state archives page on materials

Source material for Corporate histories at State Archives:Corporate Histories Prepared in Accord. w/ Val. Order #20 of ICC, 1916-1921. (1.25 cu. ft.) {#286m.80}

Subsidiary companies such as

Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad: PA State archives group {#286m.870} thru {#286m.874}manuscript group 286;

Frederick and Northern Railroad:PA State archives group {#286m.868} thru {#286m.869}

York, Hanover and Frederick Railroad (1897-1925): PA State archives group{#286m.1517} thru {#286m.1518}.

York, Hanover and Frederick Railway (1926-1953): PA State archives group{#286m.1519} thru {#286m.1520}.

Central Railroad of Maryland (1913-1914): PA State archives group{#286m.627} thru {#286m.629}.

Littlestown Railroad (1856-1892): PA State archives group{#286m.1001} thru {#286m.1004}.

Hanover and York Railroad (1873-1897): PA State archives group{#286m.897} thru {#286m.902}.

Valuation Maps held by PA archives ...REAL ESTATE MAPS AND ATLASES, MICROFILMED IN 1976. (microfilm only, 49 rolls)

RRV 1114 reel #5-15, Atlas # E-23, Frederick & Penna. Line RR (York, Hanover & Frederick RR), includes: Littlestown RR; Frederick & Northern RR,; Hanover & York RR: York-Hanover, PA, Hanover -MD state line, MD state line-Frederick.

RRV 1115 reel #5-16, Atlas # E-24, York, Hanover & Frederick/Littletown RR: Kingsdale-Columbia

Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society and this source

Detailed Chronology from the Hagley museum... this is an advanced search template for the PRR chron setup for the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line...

Pennsy Historical site for HO modelers...

• LIST OF PENNSYLVANIA RR TIMETABLE FORMS ...
  • Form 39 Folder - Baltimore - Harrisburg - April 15,1935 - Nov 29,1936 Also shows service Columbia,Pa. to Frederick,Md.
  • Form 42 Card - June 29,1885 Frederick Div & connections

Penn Central Timetables for Harrisburg Div and Frederick Secondary as well as info on the PC

• Financial analysis of the PRR from 1927
• Pennsylvania_Company
• Penn_Central
• List_of_Pennsylvania_Railroad_lines_east_of_Pittsburgh
• List_of_Pennsylvania_Railroad_lines_west_of_Pittsburgh
• List_of_Pennsylvania_Railroad_predecessor_railroads
• Pennsylvania_Lines_LLC
• Main_Line_(Pennsylvania_Railroad) ...the PRR chron links are busted on this page...

as well as these pages...

• Timeline_of_Class_I_railroads_(1910–29)
• Gettysburg and Harrisburg railroad
• Round Top Branch has Gitt material and references...

adding info to the RR templates...

• PRR Eastern Branches
• Maryland Railroads, former and current

As well as some missing pages...

• Penndel Company

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Reading Railroad

• New Hope and Ivyland

Rushland,_Pennsylvania

As well as some missing pages...

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Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)

• Washington Railway and Electric Company and a partial history from the UMD archives....

Erie Railroad

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Cumbres & Toltec RR

Engineering notes from a field survey made by the ICC of the DRG&W in 1916

Another volunteer activity for me. I recently joined the Friends organization as a volunteer for some work sessions this summer (2013) at Osier, Colorado.

• Denver and Rio Grande Valuation Maps from the ICC is one of my research projects...

Chama Yard

The ICC made a field survey of the Chama yard in 1916. These are the field notes from that survey...

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Milwaukee Road

Places along the RR in Montana

Railroad Surveyors

Railroad reconnaissance and surveying discussion...

NPS study for Delaware and Lackawanna describing the development, improvement, and maintenance of a railroad right-of-way required for proper functioning.

See also | this Pennsylvania canal study by the same author ...

See also: Track_transition_curve

• Campbell W. Adams
• Edward L. Berthoud
• James Evans from First_Transcontinental_Railroad#Union_Pacific_Route ... A new, shorter, "better" route was already being surveyed out in 1864–67. A new route across part of Nebraska and Wyoming was found and surveyed that ascended a gradual sloping ridge between Lodgepole Creek and Crow Creek to 8,200 feet (2,500 m) Evan's pass (also called Sherman's Pass) which was discovered by the Union Pacific employed English surveyor and engineer, James Evans, in about 1864.[21] This pass now is marked by the Ames Monument (41.131281,-105.398045 lat., long.) marking its significance and commemorating two of the main backers of the Union Pacific Railroad.
• Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
• Joseph S. Gitt .. and his protege..Patrick Henry Irwin some of my first pages... yeah!...
• Jay A. Given (b. 1883- d. ?) was a location engineer and civil engineer living in Redding, Shasta, California in 1940 for the Southern Pacific railroad in the 20th century.. authored a text on subject entitled .."Notes on railroad location and construction procedures from the school of experience. Chicago, American Railway Engineering Association [1954]
• John A Hayden (b. 1825, Martinsbury,Virginia - d. ?) Chief Engineer for the constructing the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line RR.
  • Service records of CSA Engineers are in Microfilm Publication M258, Rolls 103 - 110. Hayden should be on roll 106.
• J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
• Frederick W. Lander was part of the transcontinental surveys to select a route for a Pacific railroad. Later he undertook a survey for the same purpose at his own expense and was the only man of the party to survive.
• Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General)*

Discussion on basics of surveying for trail locations... looks good ...

Need to rewrite these survey terms.. Perch ... Chain (unit)

and of course... the Mason-Dixon crew that surveyed the Pennsylvania Maryland state line....

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Railroad Engineers

See also American Railway Engineering Association as well as a great railroad engineering website and engineering as well as PRR engineering material and data from 1916...

Railroad Tie association links to engineering data ... IRS site on RR data ... trains west site

• Horatio Allen (May 10, 1802 – December 31, 1889) was an American civil engineer and inventor.
• Virgil Bogue civil engineer for Western Maryland in 1891... then headed up construction thru the Feather river in California..
• Wendel Bollman of Baltimore, MD. and replacing his bridges on the Shenandoah valley RR in 1924.. UMich file ref ..LS017994
• Henry R. Campbell who produced a map and profile of the Gettysburg Rail Road as ordered by the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1839.
• Alexander Cassatt
• Lewis Metzler Clement (1837-1914) worked on a number of major railroads ...life history ...
• Theodore Cooper (1839-1919)
• Major David Bates Douglass, professor of engineering at West Point Military Academy and working papers.
  • James Chatham Duane, another USMA civil engineer.
• Herman Haupt ....he worked with Joseph Gitt at the "tapeworm" railroad project near Gettysburg.
• John Bloomfield Jervis (December 14, 1795 – January 12, 1885)..Jervis was hired for work on the Erie Canal as an axeman in 1817. While working on the construction teams, he studied engineering, at a time when there were few engineering schools in the United States. By 1819 he became the lead engineer on the canal's 50 mile long center section. his papers are in a library...
• Jonathan Knight did preliminary engineering for the construction of the original mainline segment for the B&O railroad.google search
• Samuel B. Reed needs to be fixed.. goes to another ..an architect.. external website
• William Gardner Smyser born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1845. He attended the public schools of Norristown, Pennsylvania, also the Tremont Seminary, and entering the Polytechnic College of Philadelphia was graduated in 1865 in the civil engineering course. During the Civil war as a boy he had trained with the military company in the Polytechnic College, but was never called into service. He was the son of Daniel M. Smyser who graduated from Dickinson College at Carlisle with the degree of A. B., read law, and became noted as a Pennsylvania lawyer, and was once a law partner of the famous Pennsylvanian and national character,(Ibid.) Thad Stevens in his position on the Canal commission the promoter of the Tapeworm railroad. He later worked with Gitt on the European & North American Railroad from Bangor, Maine, to St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada. He finished his career working with the AT&SF railway ("Santa Fe") in Topeka Kansas.
• Mount Savage Locomotive Works ..This isn't an engineer as much as a template for a builder ...
• John Edgar Thomson early engineer on PRR and later its president...worked with Haupt on horseshoe curve ...
• Ashbel Welch, Civil Engineer, (1809-1882) obit at find a grave ...
• Arthur M. Wellington author of "The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways" ...
• Squire Whipple known as the father of iron bridge building in America.
• Winter L. Wilson taught railroad engineering at Lehigh University in the early 20th century and in 1908 wrote "Elements of Railroad Track and Construction".

See also engineering elements such as Track Geometry and this site for railway engineering texts.

Constructing a bridge: an exploration of engineering culture, design, and research in nineteenth-century France and America ...call number TG71 .K73 1997

Structural and civil engineering design:ISBN: 9780860787617, part of the series - "Studies in the history of civil engineering" UMD call number: TA658 .S83 1999

Engineering of medieval cathedrals: ISBN: 9780860787501, part of the series - "Studies in the history of civil engineering" UMD call number: TH4221 .E54 1997

See also Grover Shoe Factory disaster for discussion on boiler engineering.

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Railroad Bridges and Trestles

Always a passion of mine...

Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania, once one of the highest in the world...

Rosendale trestle

Valley Road Bridge, Stewartstown Railroad

Local flooding changed most of the railroad bridges, see this search on the Spring 1936 flood

Excellent paper (Krieg,M) on 19th century Bridge construction as well as more technical analysis from this engineering school History of Structural Engineering

State of Maryland work materials...

Short article on Bollman

MTA SHA article on 19th and 20th century bridge designers and constructors ...

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Langwieser Viaduct swiss bridge example ...

Pennsylvania State Archive Materials on the PRR

The State archives has materials on the bridges, ROW and buildings....

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Railroad Tunnels

Another a passion of mine...

• Howard Tunnel
• Northbrae Tunnel
• Sand Patch Grade

Railroad Authors

• Harre W. Demoro (see also Demorro Biography)

Industrial Archaeology (IA)

The systematic study of material evidence associated with the industrial past. In the United States, this ties back to the HABS and HAER programs discussed above. There are guidelines issued by the NPS on their structure and content; for Engineering surveys and Architectural/Building surveys.

Reference material on Robert M Vogel. This individual was recognized for his contributions by the creation of the Vogel prize in Industrial Archaeology.. for example see Oneida Lake, NY references to Vogel prize and B&O Potomac River Crossing

The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/No. 6/Railway-Engineering in the United States containing significant economic analysis and data for 1858.

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Construction History Society:American Society Overview

Construction History Journal of the The USA... as opposed to the UK...

UK society... Construction History Society

Civil Engineering

Userbox for WP Engineering

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Engineering

I have had a life long interest in project management and cost controls in projects and this has blossomed into risk management in the last decade...

Look to improve articles such as ... Hardy Cross, Building code ..Uncertainty_and_errors_in_cfd_simulation

Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering,

see also Pages needing attention/Engineering such as ..Infrastructure

Engineering_design

my interest now is work with other professionals to develop "risk engineering" as a recognized sub-discipline of civil engineering.

This would be consistent with the ASCE Body of Knowledge project ( or ASCE BoK) as well as the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge project ( or PM BoK) and its related cousin, the ISO project management standard.

Olmsted_Locks_and_Dam ... cost overruns

International Organization for Standardization ISO 21500 Guidance on Project Management

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Cooking

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Photography

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50

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Pages made better (or at least tried to)

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Pages I am planning to work on...

• Aaron Jay Kernis, musical composer.
• Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion
• Marie Elisabeth Lüders women's history ...

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User Boxes

working on developing user boxes.. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Transportation

References

Poor, Henry V (1860). "Gettysburg Railroad". History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (Google Books). New York: John H. Schultz and Co. Retrieved 2011-05-10.

See also

• Outline of Maryland
• Index of Maryland-related articles

Category:Companies affiliated with the Pennsylvania Railroad Category:Pennsylvania railroads Category:Maryland railroads Category:Defunct Maryland railroads Category:Frederick County, Maryland Category:Companies operating former Pennsylvania Railroad lines Category:Former Class I railroads in the United States Category:Railroads transferred to Conrail Category:Railway companies established in 1870 Category:Railway companies disestablished in 1982