All aboard! In a recent online discussion, family searchers sought employment records for ancestors who worked for the railroad and early subways. I found a book, in the public domain, that is a little gold mine for family names in Canal and Railroad Reports! Train lines are not limited to New York, but include nearby areas in New Jersey, upstate New York, and other Eastern U.S. areas. Although financial records and reports are the title, names and specifics about injured employees are listed month by month, within these annual reports. At times it is indicated that such employees died from injuries sustained at work, but with the limitations of medicine in that era, a serious injury, such as a loss of a limb, may hint at in inevitable, forthcoming death. Another point is that if a NYC resident worked on a NJ line, he may have died there. Ah ha! No wonder you couldn't locate a death certificate via the NYC German or Italian Genealogy transcription projects. If you've been unlucky finding a death certificate for a male ancestor, I recommend that you search this site at> http://tinyurl.com/yjhz8je You may also be interested in searching the alphabetized biographies of Railway Officials from 1906, at> http://www.onlinebiographies.info/railroad/index.htm Source: The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America Edition of 1906 Edited and compiled by T. Addison Busbey Associate Editor The Railway Age. Chicago 1906 On a link to the homepage of The Western New York Railway Archive, the anonymous author states that genealogical queries for personnel files were often lost or destroyed. SEE: http://wnyrails.org/index.htm Before you leave this site, check out the map of railway lines stretched like spaghetti across northern NYS. Plus, there are some valuable links, directly below the title. For genealogical records, the recommendation is to contact the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board at> http://www.rrb.gov/mep/genealogy.asp This should be enough homework to keep you railroad buffs busy for a week! Full steam ahead! Barb NYC Researcher