Content Description
This collection contains railroad annual reports, correspondence, and board of directors documents. Financial and legal records, department reports, and reference materials are also present. In addition to Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line records, there are materials from the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, the Clinchfield, the Charleston & Western Carolina, the Western Railroad of Alabama, the Georgia Railroad, and the Seaboard Coast Line. The Seaboard Coast Line was formed from the merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Wiggins was the fourth person to hold the dual positions of chairman of the board of directors of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company since the companies' affiliation in 1902.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Language of Description
English
Script of Description
Latin
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- 1833-1973
- Majority of material found within 1948-1973
Creator
Extent
36.125 linear feet (27 records center boxes, 1 manuscript box, 4 flats, 1 volume)
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
- Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Company
- Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Company
- Clinchfield Railroad
- Georgia Railroad
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
- Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway
- Railroad companies Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Railway of Alabama
- Wiggins, A. L. M. (Archibald Lee Manning), 1891-1980