Statements and reports primarily detailing financial, construction, and mileage data, also locomotive performance statistics, passes, land reports, and various other subjects.

Reports, correspondence, drawings, and other items related to CB&Q equipment and property, including cars and steel rails as well as bridges, elevators, and stockyards. Also includes contracts and correspondence with the Pullman Company, and materials related to coal lands in Colorado and the Midwest.

Reports, correspondence, drawings, and other items related to CB&Q equipment and property, including cars and steel rails as well as bridges, elevators, and stockyards. Also includes contracts and correspondence with the Pullman Company, and materials related to coal lands in Colorado and the Midwest.

Materials related to CB&Q employees, primarily regarding compensation and salaries, including policies and salary lists. Also includes items relevant to the 1888 strike, including grievances of CB&Q engineers, comparisons of salaries, and correspondence regarding the Knights of Labor and other labor unions. See also subseries 33 1880 9 for strike materials.

Materials related to new construction and lines acquired by CB&Q during the 1880s, primarily estimates, reports, maps and surveys for lands in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, and elsewhere in the Midwest. Also includes correspondence and reports regarding surveys to the Pacific Coast, and correspondence and agreements regarding Chicago’s Union Depot.

Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, and other items related to the 1888 strike. Materials are quite comprehensive, with Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers materials, correspondence from CB&Q executives, reports from Pinkerton agents who infiltrated union meetings, and multiple scrapbooks and written histories.