FAIRPORT,
PAINESVILLE & EASTERN
RESOURCES
For those
that want to obtain their own collection of FP&E materials, listed below
are resources that, for the most part, can still be found and/or purchased.
Federal Documents
Below is
a list of Interstate Commerce Commission documents regarding the FP&E. For the most part, these documents can be
found in the government publications section of any large/major public library
or any good college/university library.
The ICC's officially published documents are kept in a bound series of
books called the Interstate Commerce Commission Reports. The way to locate/find a particular
document/decision is through citations: After each docket number in the list
below there is a citation code, such as "23 ICC 145"; the first
number refers to the volume in the bound book series, the ICC of course refers
to the title of the series, and the last number refers to the page number where
the document begins.
("Unpublished" materials can only be purchased from the
Surface Transportation Board. Also, any
documents that provided background to the ICC's decisions, such as
applications, petitions, etc., can only be purchased from either the National
Archives or the Surface Transportation Board.)
Here is a
list of the dockets involving the FP&E, in publication and/or date order:
Docket 10236, 53 ICC 549, 6/27/1919: Diamond Alkali
Company v. Fairport, Painesville & Eastern Railroad Company, Director
General, et al.
Docket
10236, 62 ICC 161, 6/14/1921: Diamond Alkali Company v. Fairport, Painesville
& Eastern Railroad Company, Director General, et al.
Docket
10236, 78 ICC 1, 3/6/1923: Diamond Alkali Company v. Fairport, Painesville
& Eastern Railroad Company, Director General, et al.
Finance
Docket 5199, 105 ICC 334, 1/13/1926: Notes of Fairport, Painesville &
Eastern R.R.
Finance
Docket 5246, 105 ICC 297, 1/14/1926: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Equipment Trust
Valuation
Docket 474, 110 ICC 692, 4/3/1925: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern – June
30, 1917
Finance
Docket 4644, 124 ICC 323, 4/13/1927: Deficit Status of Fairport, Painesville
& Eastern R.R.
Finance
Docket 6072, 124 ICC 393, 4/28/1927: Construction of Extension by Fairport,
Painesville & Eastern Railroad Company
Finance
Docket 6207, 124 ICC 599, 5/25/1927: Securities of Fairport, Painesville &
Eastern Railroad
Finance
Docket 5199, 138 ICC 23, 1/14/1928: Notes of Fairport, Painesville &
Eastern Railroad
Finance
Docket 6816, 138 ICC 437, 1/13/1928: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Debentures
Finance
Docket 4644, 145 ICC 684, 11/10/1928: Deficit Status of Fairport, Painesville
& Eastern Railroad Company
Finance
Docket 8477, 166 ICC 735, 11/22/1930: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Stock
Finance
Docket 6207, 166 ICC 737, 11/22/1930: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Construction
Finance
Docket 6207, 175 ICC 290, 7/11/1931: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Securities
Finance
Docket 8877, 175 ICC 767, 11/14/1931: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Stock
Finance
Docket 9599, 193 ICC 375, 8/9/1933: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Proposed Construction
Finance
Docket 12287, 230 ICC 535, 1/16/1939: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Stock
Finance
Docket 12514, 233 ICC 675, 8/25/1939: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Stock
Finance
Docket 4644, 249 ICC 405, 10/21/1941: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Stock
Finance
Docket 19014, unpublished, 10/4/1955: Fairport, Painesville & Eastern
Railroad Company Deficit Settlement
Finance
Dockets 23980 & 23981, 330 ICC 672, 8/7/1967: Norfolk and Western Railway
Company – Control – FP&E Company – Purchase – Fairport, Painesville and
Eastern Railroad Company; FP&E Company – Stock
Finance
Docket 30427, unpublished, 5/7/1984: Norfolk and Western Railway Company –
Control and Merger Exemption – Fairport, Painesville and Eastern Railway
Company
State Documents
Below is
a list of documents available on-line from the Ohio Secretary of State regarding
corporate filings of the FP&E. To
view/save your own copies of these documents, go to this webpage …
http://www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/portal/PORTAL_BS.BS_QRY_CHARTER_REG.SHOW_PARMS
… then
enter one of the two Charter numbers displayed below. On the results page, click on the link labelled "Click for
Details" under Business Filing Info.
Documents
for Charter 27843 (Fairport, Painesville and Eastern Railroad Company; Fairport
Corporation):
A076_1650, July 18, 1910, Articles Of Incorporation: For
Profit
A076_1652,
July 23, 1910, Amendment To Articles
A076_1654,
October 18, 1910, Amendment To Articles: Change of Shares
A076_1658,
October 11, 1917, Miscellaneous Filing
A076_1661,
February 28, 1921, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Shares, Increase Of
Authorized Stock Shares
A076_1663,
November 16, 1926, Miscellaneous Filing
A076_1669,
December 23, 1926, Amendment To Articles
A076_1673,
December 22, 1938, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Shares, Increase Of
Authorized Stock Shares
A076_1676,
October 11, 1955, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Shares, Increase Of
Authorized Stock Shares
B571_0450,
August 15, 1968, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Name
B571_0452,
August 15, 1968, Dissolution
Documents
for Charter 347322 (FP&E Company; Fairport, Painesville and Eastern Railway
Company):
B441_1906, January 17, 1966, Articles Of Incorporation:
For Profit
B571_0460,
August 15, 1968, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Location, Change Of Name
F483_1725,
June 28, 1984, Merged Out Of Existence
ORER
The
Official Railway Equipment Register is a guide to freight car rosters that has
been in continuous publication since 1884 (for the last several decades it has
been published quarterly). From what
I've discovered, early editions have system maps, and all editions have some
basic information about a given railroad; but the primary purpose of the
publication is to give a current snapshot of a given railroads' freight car
roster—though just the freight cars used in interchange (railcars that are
permanently kept on the owner's rails are not registered). You can usually find a few used copies of
ORER books at auction sites, used book vendors, and libraries—but the most
complete collection I have found is at the Kalmbach Memorial Library in
Chattanooga, TN (see their website here). If you are just interested in one railroad
and would like copies of every entry available, the KML is the place to
contact.
Below I have compiled a list of all the FP&E entries I
have found so far between 1926 (the first year I found the FP&E listed in
the ORER) and 1965 (the last year the FP&E listed any of their freight cars
in the publication—after the April 1965 edition, the FP&E entries state
"Freight cars owned are not used in interchange service.").
|
ORER Edition |
FP&E Entry |
||
|
Month |
Year |
Date of Data |
Map |
|
June |
1926 |
Mar 1926 |
Y |
|
October |
1926 |
Mar 1926 |
Y |
|
December |
1926 |
Nov 1926 |
Y |
|
February |
1927 |
Feb 1927 |
Y |
|
May |
1928 |
May 1928 |
Y |
|
January |
1929 |
Aug 1928 |
Y |
|
February |
1929 |
Feb 1929 |
Y |
|
June |
1929 |
Feb 1929 |
Y |
|
September |
1930 |
Sept 1930 |
Y |
|
October |
1930 |
Oct 1930 |
Y |
|
November |
1930 |
Nov 1930 |
Y |
|
May |
1931 |
Jan 1931 |
Y |
|
June |
1931 |
Jan 1931 |
Y |
|
August |
1931 |
July 1931 |
Y |
|
November |
1931 |
Oct 1931 |
Y |
|
July |
1932 |
July 1932 |
N |
|
July |
1937 |
July 1937 |
N |
|
April |
1938 |
Apr 1938 |
N |
|
July |
1940 |
July 1939 |
N |
|
January |
1943 |
July 1939 |
N |
|
April |
1944 |
July 1939 |
N |
|
April |
1946 |
Jan 1946 |
N |
|
April |
1950 |
Oct 1949 |
N |
|
October |
1952 |
July 1952 |
N |
|
January |
1953 |
July 1952 |
N |
|
January |
1954 |
Apr 1953 |
N |
|
January |
1955 |
July 1954 |
N |
|
January |
1957 |
July 1956 |
N |
|
April |
1958 |
July 1956 |
N |
|
July |
1959 |
July 1956 |
N |
|
July |
1960 |
July 1956 |
N |
|
October |
1960 |
Oct 1960 |
N |
|
July |
1961 |
July 1961 |
N |
|
October |
1962 |
Oct 1962 |
N |
|
October |
1963 |
Oct 1963 |
N |
|
April |
1964 |
Jan 1964 |
N |
|
April |
1965 |
Jan 1965 |
N |
Articles
I have
only found a few articles on the FP&E; most of them were from the
transportation trade magazine "Traffic World" and were about the
N&W-FP&E control case (Finance Dockets 23980/23981—see above), but one
was from the railfan magazine "Railpace" discussing the end of the
FP&E. "Railpace"
magazines can be purchased from a good used magazine/book vendor—especially one
that specializes in railroad materials; older issues of "Traffic
World" can be found either in bound volumes or on microfiche at any
large/major library. Here are the
details so you can get your own copies of these articles:
Traffic
World
February 5, 1966 (v125), p 54: "N&W Plans to
Acquire FP&E Property in Ohio"
April 9,
1966 (v126), p 54: "NYC Seeks Joint Ownership Of Ohio Carrier With N&W"
March 18,
1967 (v129), pp 13-14: "Sole Control of FP&E By N&W Recommended;
B&O, NYC Pleas Rejected"
August
19, 1967 (v131), pp 44-45: "N&W and NYC May Acquire Joint Control of
FP&E; Division 3 Excludes B&O"
February
10, 1968 (v133 #6), pp 61-62: "N&W Says Issues of Rail Competition in
FP&E Case Should Be Reviewed by ICC"
February
24, 1968 (v133 #8), p 56: "ICC Sees No 'GTI' Issue In FP&E Control
Case"
April 20,
1968 (v134 #3), p 63: "N&W Says PC Merger Changed FP&E Situation"
June 15,
1968 (v134 #11), p 11: "ICC Denies N&W Petition to Review FP&E
Control"
Railpace
August 1984 (v3 #8), p. 19: "Another Fallen Flag …
Fairport, Painesville & Eastern"
Books
There are
only three books I have found that have anything significant about the
FP&E: two 'coffee-table' books (books full of pictures with minimal text)
and a military history book.
The military history book is Industrialists in Olive
Drab: The Emergency Operation of Private Industries During World War 2,
published by the US Army's Center of Military History in 1999. Chapter 6 in this book, "The Fairport,
Painesville and Eastern Railroad Case, November 1942," is a 6-page story
of the temporary takeover of the FP&E by US Army Engineers (for more
details, see my FP&E
History page).
The two coffee-table books are Trackside Around
Cleveland: 1965-1979, published by Morning Sun Books in 2005, and Trackside
Around Eastern Ohio: 1965-1995, published by Morning Sun Books in
2008. Both of these books feature the
photography of Dave McKay, a railfan/photographer from the Cleveland area who
passed away in 2004. In Trackside
Around Cleveland, pages 104 & 105 contain five pictures of the
FP&E; in Trackside Around Eastern Ohio, pages 58-61 and 128 contain
seven pictures of the FP&E. The
captions for the pictures are very descriptive—though there are some
inaccuracies in the background information given in a couple of the captions in
Trackside Around Eastern Ohio, which I address in my Diamond/FP&E page.
Maps
Basically
the only maps that are available to collect are those found in older editions
of the ORER (see the chart above). To
see what those maps look like—and for more information about maps related to
the FP&E that are available on the internet, see my FP&E Maps page.
Created
by Scott Nixon
July 2009