Series VIIIb: System Federations and Matters Pertaining to Individual System Federations, 1917-1961

This collection is primarily the correspondence (carbons and originals), of the RED Presidents: B.M. Jewell, Fred N. Aten, and Michael Fox, with officers of RED affiliated unions and the carriers. Also, included are minutes and proceedings, legal records, financial records, legislative materials, circulars, publications, reports, case files, statistical data and clippings.

Of the 377 national railroads represented in the records, eighteen emerge as major, these are the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Boston and Maine Railroad; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; Chicago and Northwestern Railroad; Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad; Long Island Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad; Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad; New York Central Railroad; New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; Norfolk and Western Railroad; Northern Pacific Railway; Pennsylvania Railroad; Southern Pacific Railroad; and Union Pacific Railroad. The collection deals almost exclusively with the American railroads, although there are some materials concerning three major Canadian railroads: Canadian Railway, Canadian Northern Railway, and Canadian Pacific Railway.

The collection materials are organized into 31 series.