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[781 Train Caboose in Fort Worth, TX]

Description: Photograph of the 781 Train caboose in Fort Worth, Texas. The light-colored, rectangular car has a flat, dark roof with a windowed structure along the top of it. A ladder sits to the right beside steps leading to a door. Dark text sits along the side of the car reading "M-K-T," "781," and "The Katy Series the Southwest Well." A dark, rounded container car is attached to the caboose to the right.
Date: November 3, 1947
Creator: Haney, Everett C.
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[Advent of the Streamliners]

Description: 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~
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[Alvorado Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico]

Description: Santa Fe's nationally known Alvarado Hotel adjoining the passenger station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, circa 1947. Lower left is the Fred Harvey news stand with Fred Harvey Indian Museum in left center portion of the rambling structure which is surmounted by Spanish style cupolas. The Alvorado was torn down in December of 1969.
Date: 1947
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["Los Angeles Limited" in Cheyenne, Wyoming]

Description: Photograph of one of the Union Pacific Railroad's most famous passenger trains - the "Los Angeles Limited" headed by an Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, Engine No. 116 as it passes through Cheyenne, Wyoming. The train consisted of seven handcrafted wooden cars - heated by potbellied iron stoves and illuminated by kerosene lamps.
Date: 1906~
Creator: Stimson, J.
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[ATSF 2774 Bunk Car in Fort Worth, TX]

Description: Photograph of an ATSF 2774 Bunk Car at Fort Worth, Texas. The white, paneled, rectangular car is sat connected to the end of a dark car along the left edge of the photograph. Rectangular windows sit along the side of the car, two on each side of a white door with a small ladder leading to it at the center of the car. Dark text sit between the windows reading "ATSF" and "197497."
Date: May 30, 1948
Creator: Haney, Everett C.
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[ATSF 2775 Train Car]

Description: Photograph of the ATSF 2775 train car in Fort Worth, Texas. The dark, rectangular car sits on rails and contains sections of horizontal ripples on the left and side of the car. White text sit on either side of the side of the car reading "Santa Fe ATSF 275135" and "Ship and travel Santa Fe all the way."
Date: May 20, 1948
Creator: Haney, Everett C.
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["Autovias" train in Mexican mountains]

Description: Chihuahua - Pacific Railway's "Autovias" train, consisting of fiat diesel cars coming out of one of the 73 tunnels which are located on the line between La Junta and El Fuerte, Mexico on the 281 mile portion of the route traversing the mountain region over the Continental Divide around 1968.
Date: 1968
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[The "Banner Limited"]

Description: Wabash Railway's The "Banner Limited" dating from the turn of the century, traverses the 286 mile route between St. Louis and Chicago. It was a daylight train - No. 11 southbound and No. 10 northbound - operating on a schedule of about seven hours. In this photograph the "Banner Limited" is headed by an Atlantic type 4-4-2 locomotive, engine No. 602, with a consist of old wooden cars which have underbody truss rods and open platforms. As early as June 1916, this train was cited in the Official… more
Date: 1900~
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[Blizzard in the Chicago Station]

Description: One of the most unique of all railroad photographs: It is a January night in 1958 and a blizzard-snowstorm rages in the "Windy City". This scene is in the yards - the Chicago and North Western Railway's Chicago passenger station is visible in the background. Observe the gas jets which are keeping switches from being frozen.
Date: January 1958
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