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("Unpublished" documents can only be obtained from the Surface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 |
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A076_1652,
July 23, 1910, Amendment To Articles |
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A076_1654,
October 18, 1910, Amendment To Articles: Change of Shares |
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A076_1658,
October 11, 1917, Miscellaneous Filing |
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A076_1661,
February 28, 1921, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Shares, |
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Increase Of Authorized Stock Shares |
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A076_1663,
November 16, 1926, Miscellaneous Filing |
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A076_1669,
December 23, 1926, Amendment To Articles |
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A076_1673,
December 22, 1938, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Shares, |
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Increase Of Authorized Stock Shares |
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A076_1676,
October 11, 1955, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Shares, |
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Increase Of Authorized Stock Shares |
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B571_0450,
August 15, 1968, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Name |
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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 |
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B571_0460,
August 15, 1968, Amendment To Articles: Change Of Location, Change Of Name |
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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 |
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Month |
Year |
Date of Data |
Map |
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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 |
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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