central indiana railway company
records, 1903–1966 (bulk 1903–1930)

Collection Information

Historical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Series Contents

Cataloging Information

Processed by

Glenn McMullen
2 August 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:	1 document case, 2 OMB boxes, 1 oversized folder in flat file storage
COLLECTION DATES:	1903–1966 (bulk 1903–1930)
PROVENANCE:	Howard B. Morris, Indianapolis, Indiana, 24 April 1980
RESTRICTIONS:	None
COPYRIGHT:
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:	Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.
ALTERNATE FORMATS:
RELATED HOLDINGS:
ACCESSION NUMBER:	1980.0414
NOTES:

The Central Indiana Railway Company had its origins as the Anderson, Lebanon and St. Louis Railroad, chartered in 1875. The line was mostly unprofitable from its beginnings. It was sold and reorganized as the Cleveland, Indiana and St. Louis Railway in 1882, and then reorganized as the Midland Railway Company in 1885. A Chicago attorney, Henry Crawford, acquired control of the line in 1891 and organized it as the Chicago and South Eastern Railway.

It was this line that was jointly acquired by the Pennsylvania and Big Four railroads in 1902, and which was incorporated 16 March 1903 as the Central Indiana Railway Company. The railroad ran a distance of 127 miles, from Muncie to Brazil, Indiana.

Ike Duffey, an Anderson, Ind., meat packer bought the line in 1951, serving as its president and attempting to revive it economically, with mixed success. The line became part of the Conrail system for ten years (1976–86), but by 1986 only the nine-mile segment running from Anderson to Lapel, Ind., would survive as the Central Indiana and Western Railroad Company.

Sources:

Materials in collection.

Simons, Richard S., and Francis H. Parker. Railroads of Indiana. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997. General Collection: HE2771.I6 S56 1997

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains typescript mimeographed annual reports (1903-30), some with handwritten annotations; monthly operating reports (printed forms filled in by hand) showing expenses and revenues (1906–27); and completed forms for the telegraph register of trains (ca. 1908–15) and the dispatcher’s record of movement of trains (1923–24).

For a much later period (1960–66) the collection includes income statements and carload business reports.

series CONTENTS

Series 1: Annual Reports, 1903–1930

CONTENTS	CONTAINER
Annual report, 1903	Box 1, Folder 1
Annual report, 1904	Box 1, Folder 2
Annual report, 1905	Box 1, Folder 3
Annual report, 1906	Box 1, Folder 4
Annual report, 1907	Box 1, Folder 5
Annual report, 1908	Box 1, Folder 6
Annual report, 1909	Box 1, Folder 7
Annual report, 1910	Box 1, Folder 8
Annual report, 1911	Box 1, Folder 9
Annual report, 1912	Box 1, Folder 10
Annual report, 1913	Box 1, Folder 11
Annual report, 1914	Box 1, Folder 12
Annual report, 1915	Box 1, Folder 13
Annual report, 1916	Box 1, Folder 14
Annual report, 1917	Box 1, Folder 15
Annual report, 1918	Box 1, Folder 16
Annual report, 1919	Box 1, Folder 17
Annual report, 1920	Box 1, Folder 18
Annual report, 1921	Box 1, Folder 19
Annual report, 1925	Box 1, Folder 20
Annual report, 1926	Box 1, Folder 21
Annual report, 1927	Box 1, Folder 22
Annual report, 1928	Box 1, Folder 23
Annual report, 1929	Box 1, Folder 24
Annual report, 1930	Box 1, Folder 25

Series 2: Monthly Operating Reports, 1906–27

CONTENTS	CONTAINER
Monthly reports, 1906	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 1
Monthly reports, 1907	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 2
Monthly reports, 1909	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 3
Monthly reports, 1910	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 4
Monthly reports, 1911	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 5
Monthly reports, 1912	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 6
Monthly reports, 1913	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 7
Monthly reports, 1914	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 8
Monthly reports, 1915	OMB 0004: Box 1, Folder 9
Monthly reports, 1917	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 1
Monthly reports, 1918	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 2
Monthly reports, 1919	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 3
Monthly reports, 1920	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 4
Monthly reports, 1921	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 5
Monthly reports, 1922	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 6
Monthly reports, 1923	OMB 0004: Box 2, Folder 7
Monthly reports, 1924	OMB 0004: Box 3, Folder 1
Monthly reports, 1925	OMB 0004: Box 3, Folder 2
Monthly reports, 1926	OMB 0004: Box 3, Folder 3
Monthly reports, 1927	OMB 0004: Box 3, Folder 4

Series 3: Timesheets, ca. 1908–24

CONTENTS	CONTAINER
Timesheets: Telegraph Register of Trains, ca. 1908–15; Dispatcher’s Record of Movement of Trains, 1923–24	Flat Files: FF-11n, Folder 1

Series 4: Income Statements and Carload Business Reports, 1960–66

CONTENTS	CONTAINER
Income statements and Central Indiana accounts, 1960	Box 1, Folder 26
Statements of carload business, 1962	Box 1, Folder 27
Carload business reports, 1963	Box 1, Folder 28
Carload business reports, 1965	Box 1, Folder 29
Carload business reports, 1966	Box 1, Folder 30

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Collection #

M 0336, OMB 0004

central indiana railway company records, 1903–1966 (bulk 1903–1930)