Consists of a variety of annual reports and related report data for the Great Western Railway of Canada (1877-1881), Northern Railway of Canada (1859-1873, 1877), Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Co. (1875), Central Vermont Railway (1901-1926), Canadian Government Merchant Marine Limited (1920-1936), Canadian National Railway System (1936-1941), Canadian National (West Indies) Steamships Limited (1937-1957) and the Montreal Stock Yards Company (1932-1936). Also included are a number of miscellaneous records that pertain to such subjects as Intercolonial Railway and Connections through (freight) rates (1886-1895), Central Vermont Railway Company re-organization (1899), Grand Trunk Railway System Transportation Department rules (1882), Canadian Railway Mail Service Department specifications for mail cars (1919), Minutes of the General (and Joint) Committee meetings of the Order of Railway Conductors (CNR Lines West - 1929), Royal Tour locomotive assignments, etc. (1951) and the Canadian National Railway Pension Fund (1935, 1950s). A third category includes such items as CNR and Mayor of Lachine invitations issued on the occasion of the Montreal and Lachine Rail Road centennial plaque unveilings, a 'Fathers of Confederation' CNR dining car menu (1927), a menu from the M.V. 'Abegweit' and a programme/invitation issued on the occasion of the official opening of the Donald Gordon Centre, Queen's Univerity (1974).
