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  ("Unpublished" documents can only be obtained from the Surface Transportation Board.  Also, any documents that provided background to the ICC's decisions, such as applications, petitions, etc., can only be obtained 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 6072, 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.

 

 

 

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Created by Scott Nixon

July 2009