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[News Clip: Arlington Crossings]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 20, 1981, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Railroad crossings]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 17, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Goliad County

Description: Map of Goliad County, Texas in the South Texas Plains region. This map is badly fragmented, including several pieces in the lower-left corner that could not be pieced into the rest of the map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Map of Pecos County, Texas

Description: Cadastral map of Pecos County, Texas in the Big Bend Country region. Some borders and features are marked in color. Scale [ca. 1:66,667] (2000 varas per inch).
Date: unknown
Creator: Sullivan, Vernon L.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Map of Smugglers' Road Drawn by Harry Pettey

Description: Map of El Camino del Caballo (also known as Smugglers' Road) in the southern part of Nacogdoches County, used by Spanish missionaries in the 18th century. The map also includes portions of El Camino Real, Trammel's Trace, and La Calle Real del Norte as well as other roads, towns, crossings, missions, and cemeteries. No scale indicated.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pettey, Harry
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Pecos County, Texas

Description: Cadastral map of Pecos County, Texas in the Big Bend Country region. A sketch in the lower-left corner corner shows Pecos County in relation to the surrounding counties. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Shelby County

Description: Cadastral map of Shelby County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. There is an index on the left side of the map. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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[News Clip: One Killed, Two Hurt in Train Car Crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a railroad grade crossing accident, which kills one man and hospitalizes two children.
Date: January 25, 1956
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: House struck by train, splintered]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a train hitting a house at a railroad crossing as it was being moved to a new location on the back of a truck. The house was reduced to splinters, but no one was seriously injured.
Date: July 24, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an accident involving a car and a railroad switch engine.
Date: December 17, 1954
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: One dead, two hurt in accidents]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a collision between a 58-car Santa Fe freight train and an automobile in Oak Cliff, as well as two other automobile accidents in the metroplex.
Date: August 13, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 11 Katy freight cars derailed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about eleven freight cars of a train derailing for unknown reasons in far north Dallas. No one was injured.
Date: August 12, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from J.W. Ward to K.K. Legett - December 22, 1899]

Description: Letter written to K.K. Legett in Abilene Texas from J.W. Ward, Division Superintendent at the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. The letter says: "In reference to your letters to Maj. Abrams relative to a crossing near Elmdale, have instructed Mr. Stamper, our Roadmaster, to meet you at Abilene Dec. 27th., and go over the situation with you."
Date: October 22, 1899
Creator: Ward, J. W.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Railroad-Gate.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Cottle, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Jackson County

Description: Map of Jackson County, Texas, including the Gulf Coast region. The Atascosita Road crossings of Navidad and Lavaca Rivers are shown on map. A color legend for colony surveys is also shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1896
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Railroad-Crossing.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable railroad-crossing that "consists of a center piece, and two side pieces for clamping the main track rails in place" (lines 12-14). It can be easily set up and connected with the rails.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Keenan, Michael J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gregg County

Description: Map of the Piney Woods region covering Gregg County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 1893
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Railway Signal and Crossing-Gate.

Description: Patent for an improved railway signal meant to be used at crossings. It consists of a rotary signal post, operating mechanism, a lamp, an arm extension, the signal hanging from the arm, a bearing for the bottom of the rotary post, a box where the bearing sits, a sleeve that holds a cap plate for the box, a ladder from the post to the cap plate, and a brace.
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Berry, John S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Crossing.

Description: Patent for a railroad crossing that "consists in certain devices organized in a manner to secure automatic alignment of a series of movable rail-sections with the main rails of a track on which a train is traveling in the direction of the crossing, the approach of the train setting in motion the devices by which the rail-sections are controlled, and thus dispensing with an attendant at the crossing to set the contrivance for the safe passage of the train through the crossing" (lines 12-22).
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Knight, Mosses G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crane County

Description: Map of the Big Bend Country region covering Crane County, Texas. There is a sketch of a crane and a crab standing in water in the upper left corner of map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1890
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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