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[News Clip: Amtrack]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 5, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Amtrak]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 24, 1979, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Amtrack]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 3, 1979, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about a robbery, multiple shootings, a warehouse explosion, a train accident, and a house fire.
Date: December 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.

Description: Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Smitham, Nicholas L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

CONVERTIBLE CAR.

Description: Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Cothern, John K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brake-Staff.

Description: Patent for a new type of brake staff for trains featuring a modular design allowing its form to be changed as necessary. This is useful for connecting train cars where regular brake staffs may get in the way. Including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Clark, James Thomas & Meyer, Henry L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for an innovation in the combination and arrangement of parts for car-couplers including illustrations.
Date: August 7, 1900
Creator: Hawkins, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-brake

Description: Patent for a car-brake that improves the ability of a train to stop its forward motion.
Date: December 29, 1900
Creator: Wise, Harry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Two People Walking in Field; Trucks Parked in Field; Train Traveling Across Field; Truck Convoy Traveling Across Field

Description: Copy negative of four pictures. One is of some trucks parked in a field. One is of two men walking across a field facing away. One is of a convoy of trucks crossing the field with mountains in the background. One is of a train crossing the field with mountains in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Vacationers on Railroad Car

Description: Copy negative of a large group of people on and around a railroad car with mountains in the background. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Paxton are circled. The travelers are on vacation doing the wildflower excursion.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Postcard of Train Robbery

Description: Copy photograph of a postcard of a train robbery. A train is shown being robbed by one or more men, while the passengers are lined up outside the train with their hands on the cars. Text at the top reads, "A Hold-Up of a Grey Mountain Special."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Crowd by Train Depot

Description: Copy photograph of a group of people waiting at a train depot for Teddy Roosevelt's train to arrive. Beyond the crowd is the train depot, and behind that is a three-storey building. A hand-written note on the photograph reads, "4,000 people to greet Teddy Roosevelt, Abilene, Texas."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

School Project Displays

Description: Copy photograph of two images of student projects on display at the Abilene Civic Center. The left image shows the project, "Motor Lab," by a student of Locust Elementary School. The display consists of a model train on a tabletop. Behind the table is a wall covered with criss-crossing train tracks. The word "Locust" can be seen on the table. The right image shows the project, "Schoolroom of Yesteryear," by a student of Dyess Elementary School. The display consists of four children in desks and… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Postcard for Bastrop, Texas]

Description: Postcard showing nine scenes of Bastrop, Texas. Photographs include (from left to right): (1) Piney Creek, (2) Main Street, (3) Diagonal Street, (4) Bastrop from bird's-eye view, (5) the court house and jail, (6) bridge across the Colorado River, (7) the high school building, (8) a side view of the bridge across the Colorado River, and (9) a train depot. A partially-legible note is written on the back, that says "Suppose you will be surprised to receive this postal but did think of the [...] fo… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Grissom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Men and Women at Railroad Station

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of a group of people at a train station standing between two rails in front of the entrance. The second is of a group of people on a platform with some folding chairs at a parade.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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