We are pleased to announce that we have received a $1,000 grant from the Rocky Mountain Railroad Historical Foundation to fund the digitization of the large format documents in the John West Collection of Utah Railway Engineering Maps and the John W. Timberlake Collection of Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Operations Documents. The small-format documents from these collections have been digitized by our volunteers using standard size scanners, but the maps and blueprints that are too big to fit on the flatbed scanner (one map is approximately 40 feet long!) need to be contracted out to a scanning service. This grant will assist with this process so that these invaluable documents can be made available to the public on our archive.org account.
We are one of six organizations that received grants from the RMRHF this year, and wish our fellow preservation societies luck in their projects! You can read more about this year’s grants in the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club June 2022 newsletter found on their website HERE. Thank you to the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club and the Rocky Mountain Railroad Historical Foundation for supporting us!
