Historic Technical Publications
These are techincal publications from the vendors who supplied passenger car mechanical equipment. These manuals and the equipment they describe are long since out of production. Some are very hard to find. I am providing these scans as a free service to anyone who needs to keep this old equipment functioning. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners.
These files are 300-dpi scans bound into Adobe Acrobat .pdf files. They are not small. Alphabetical by manufacturer.
Cutler-Hammer
- Cutler-Hammer Relays and Contactors
- 2,009 kb
Dayton Rubber Mfg. Co.
- "D-R" Toothed Vee Belt Axle Drives
- 10,418 kb
Frigidaire
- Frigidaire Railway Air Conditioning Installation and Service Manual
- 1949 - 81,045 kb
- Frigidaire Railway Air Conditioning Parts Catalog
- 1950 - 33,574 kb
- Frigidaire Railway Air Conditioning Parts Catalog
- 1955 - 26,912 kb
Pullman
- Pullman's Great Northern Manual for sleepers delivered in 1951
- 1951 - 55,902 kb
Reliance
- Operation and Maintenance of Reliance type 'T' Standard D.C. Motors
- 1953 - 538 kb
Safety
- Operation and Care of Safety Electrical Equiment for Railroad Car Lighting and Air Conditioning
- 1951 - 3,896 kb
Spicer
- Spicer Positive Railway Generator Drive
- 3,696 kb
Trane
- Trane Operation and Service Manual - Trane Railway Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems
- 1954 - 14,638 kb
Vapor
- Information, Instructions and Parts Catalog for Air Conditioning Controls and Vapor Heating Devices used with Air Conditioning Equipment
- 1935 - 23,047 kb
- Vapor Passenger Car Steam Heat
- 1952? - 92,041 kb
Waukesha
- Operating Manual and Parts List for the Waukesha Ice Engine (Models "C" and "D".)
- 5,868 kb
- Operating Manual and Parts List for the Waukesha Motor ("B" and "B-1" 7.5kw Engine-Generators and "C", "D" and "D-1" Ice Engines.)
- 22,873 kb
- Operating Manual and Parts List for the Waukesha Railway Ice Engine Model E and the Engine-Generator Model C
- 38,761 kb
- Operating Manual and Parts List for Waukesha 25kw Diesel Enginators
- 6,213 kb - Partial
Westinghouse
- Westinghouse Diesel Electric Locomotives catalog. Not 1146-related, except that 1146 and Armco B-71 were yard-mates for a few years.
- 32,833 kb
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