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[Photo of a train leaving Palestine]

Photo of a Missouri Pacific train leaving Palestine. Note the Railroad YMCA in the background.

Date: 1940~

Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Unidentified Nurses in Palestine]

Photograph of a group of unidentified nurses that might have worked at the I&GN Hospital in Palestine (unverified). The group of women are all wearing uniforms that include hats marked with crosses and are standing in two rows outside a building.

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Bolivar Street, Sanger, Texas]

Downtown Sanger looking east along Bolivar Street from the corner on Fifth Street. The native stone wall marks the edge of the square.

Date: 1942~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sanger Public Library

Home of Silk Finish Flour, Sanger, Texas

Aerial picture of mill, yard and outbuildings located on the east side of 2nd Street between Pecan and Plum Streets.. The mill was established in 1897.

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sanger Public Library

[John & Lela Cafe]

Ice storm hits cafe on the SW corner of 5th & Bolivar. Coca Cola signs displayed prominently.

Date: January 26, 1949

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sanger Public Library

[Train engine]

Santa Fe locomotive 4045 (4000 class) pulls into the Sanger depot. Cotton gin in the background and the hand laid brick platform in the foreground.

Date: 1940~

Creator: Fuqua, Idaleene Scheu

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sanger Public Library

Morgan Senior Class of 1941

Group of students posing for picture, next to brick building, five girls seated in front and row of seven young men and possibly a teacher, standing in the back. Seated, front row, left to right: Mildred Lane, Dorothy Nell Womack, Nona Greer, Julia Winford Thompson, Ollie May Hasty. Standing, back row, left to right: Alvis Tweedle, Preston Kimbell, Marshall rose, Homer Brown, J B McCarty, Billy Meyers, Frank White, Lewis Morris.

Date: 1941

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Bosque County Historical Commission

Morgan Senior Class of 1943

Group of students posing for class picture, by side of building, graduating class from Morgan High School, 1943, with seven girls seated in front and row of seven young men and possibly teacher in back. First row, seated, left to right: Frances Rule, Mary Jane Cole, Pauline Murphey, Margaret Payne, Lorine Landtroop, Danny Briscoe, Ruby Johnson. Back row, standing, left to right: Willie Gibson, Jug Kimbell, Cecil Gibson, George Hughes, Randy Campbell, Kenneth Chambers, Billy Kirton, Jesse Tom Ro… more

Date: 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Bosque County Historical Commission

Morgan High School Senior Class of 1946

Group of students and teacher, four girls standing in front, and three boys and teacher standing in back, in front of brick building with double glass doors.First row, left to right: Bessie Cox, Dorothy Moore, Ophelia Johnson, Mildred Lewis. Second row, left to right: Mr Harper, Superintendant, Clay Timms, J C Payne, Cecil Johnson.

Date: 1946

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Bosque County Historical Commission

["The West Virginian" in the Blue Ridge Mountains]

One of the Chesapeake and Ohio;s excellent passenger trains "The West Virginian" train No. 1 westbound, traversing main line rails through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["North Coast Limited" departing from St. Paul, Minnesota]

Photograph of the Northern Pacific's de Luxe "North Coast Limited" westbound, headed by engine No. 2671 -- a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive -- departing from the St. Paul Union Station. City buildings are visible behind the train.

Date: 1941

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Sportsman" in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]

Chesapeake and Ohio's "The Sportsman" headed by Engine No. 491, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, awaits the departure signal at the White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia Depot.

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Long Island Railroad train]

The Long Island Railroad's train No. 529 westbound, headed by a class G5s ten wheeler, type 4-6-0 locomotive, enroute through Glen Cove from Oyster Bay to Jamaica.

Date: March 7, 1942

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["St. Louis Special" departing Chicago]

Illinois Central Railroad's "St. Louis Special" train No. 1-501, headed by Engine No. 2450 - a mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from the Central Station in Chicago.

Date: 1943~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails"]

Photograph of Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails" - the "California Limited" train No. 4 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 2928 - a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive, and a consist of fourteen standard heavyweight cars- crosses the Canyon Diablo Bridge near Winslow, Arizona. Observe this locomotive's automatic-type, elevating smokestack, designed to increase the up-draft, thereby increasing combustion efficiency in the firebox.

Date: 1947~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Chicago and North Western Railway's passenger station]

This photograph depicts one of the nations finest railroad passenger stations - Chicago and North Western Railway's Chicago passenger station. Sign above the station says" Streamliners, North Western, Union Pacific"

Date: 1948~

Creator: Allison - Lightall

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Steam engines retired at Chicago Passenger Station]

In the closing years of the "Glory Days of Steam" the Chicago and North Western Railway's work horses stand at track ends in the Chicago passenger station.

Date: 1946~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[E-4 Streamliners in Chicago]

The Chicago and North Western Railway's E-4 type streamliners, which headed the "Overland Limited" and "Challenger" trains between Chicago and the West Coast, stand in the Chicago Passenger Station.

Date: 1945~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Passengers boarding the "Twin Cities 400"]

On a snowy night in December 1947, passengers are boarding the Chicago and North Western's "Twin Cities 400" streamliner at the Chicago Station.

Date: December 1947

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Lounge car on "The Bluebonnet" ]

Interior view of the Parlor Lounge Car in the consist of the Katy's "The Bluebonnet" train No. 7 southbound enroute from Dallas to San Antonio, Texas. This beautiful parlor lounge was a standard heavyweight car.

Date: 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Advent of the Streamliners]

This photograph portrays the dawn of a new era in railroading - advent of the streamliners in the late 1930s and early 1940s, plus modernization of the " Age of Steam" streamlining steam motive power. The splendor of Southern Pacific's "The Sunbeam" is shown. This train went into service between Dallas and Houston on September 15, 1937 - traversing the rail distance: 265 miles in 265 minutes. The consist of eight lightweight cars is headed by Engine No. 652, a Pacific type 4-6-2 streamlined s… more

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Locomotive rolls through Texas countyside]

Missouri Pacific Railway's train No. 32 southbound, headed by Engine No. 1158, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, with a consist of seven standard heavyweight cars - rolls through the Texas' countryside, approaching the Lone Star State's capital city of Austin.

Date: 1949~

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[The "Katy Flyer" departing from Denison, Texas]

Missourri - Kansas - Texas (Katy) Railroad's oldest name train: the "Katy Flyer" train No. 6 northbound, headed by Engine No. 395, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive with a consist of eight standard heavyweight cars, departing from Denison, Texas enroute to St. Louis.

Date: 1949~

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Bluebonnet" in Cuba, Missouri]

St. Louis - San Francisco (Frisco) Railway's de Luxe passenger train - "The Bluebonnet" (jointly operated with the Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad) train No. 8, northbound, headed by Engine No. 4501, a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive, rolls on the high iron at a speed of a mile a minute through the town of Cuba, Missouri, enroute to St. Louis.

Date: 1948~

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

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[Photo of a train leaving Palestine]

[Unidentified Nurses in Palestine]

[Bolivar Street, Sanger, Texas]

Home of Silk Finish Flour, Sanger, Texas

[John & Lela Cafe]

[Train engine]

Morgan Senior Class of 1941

Morgan Senior Class of 1943

Morgan High School Senior Class of 1946

["The West Virginian" in the Blue Ridge Mountains]

["North Coast Limited" departing from St. Paul, Minnesota]

["The Sportsman" in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]

[Long Island Railroad train]

["St. Louis Special" departing Chicago]

[Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails"]

[Chicago and North Western Railway's passenger station]

[Steam engines retired at Chicago Passenger Station]

[E-4 Streamliners in Chicago]

[Passengers boarding the "Twin Cities 400"]

[Lounge car on "The Bluebonnet" ]

[Advent of the Streamliners]

[Locomotive rolls through Texas countyside]

[The "Katy Flyer" departing from Denison, Texas]

["The Bluebonnet" in Cuba, Missouri]