["Sunbeam" locomotive in Dallas Union Terminal] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title ["Sunbeam" locomotive in Dallas Union Terminal]

Creator

  • Photographer: Plummer, Roger S.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Donor: Blanton, Burt C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Administrator, First Christian Church

Date

  • Creation: 1948
  • Digitized: 2007-08-08

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: One of only three streamlined steam locomotives in regular service between Dallas and Houston Texas, the Southern Pacific No. 650, a class P-14 4-6-2 is being readied for its afternoon mile-a minute dash to Houston on the railroad's crack Sunbeam passenger run. Seen here at Dallas in 1948 after 11 years of service.
  • Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 5 in.

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Transportation - Railroads
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Places - United States - Texas
  • Keyword: Southern Pacific Railroad
  • Keyword: Sunbeam

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Dallas County - Dallas
  • Time Period: mod-tim

Collection

  • Name: Rescuing Texas History, 2007
    Code: SG07

Institution

  • Name: Museum of the American Railroad
    Code: MARD

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 1-B_27
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth28830

Note

  • Digital Preservation: creationHardware: Epson Perfection V700 Photo
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