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["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

["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

[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

[Train at Gainesville, Texas depot]

Engine No. 306, an American type 4-4-0 locomotive, heads the Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's train No. 31 westbound, which is standing at Gainesville, Texas' depot enroute from Denison to Wichita Falls on June 23, 1940.

Date: June 23, 1940

Creator: Mizell, Charles M.

Item Type: Photograph

["Texas Special" arriving at Highland Park Station]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Texas Special" train No. 2, northbound, headed by Engine No. 388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving at Highland Park station, enroute from the Dallas Union Station to St. Louis.

Date: December 1940

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 32.824826 -96.790486

["Katy Flyer" near Waxahachie, Texas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Katy Flyer" train No. 6, northbound, headed by Engine No. 383, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, on an ascending grade near Waxahachie, Texas shortly after sunrise on an October morning in 1940.

Date: 1940

Item Type: Photograph

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

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

[Advent of the Streamliners]

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["Texas Special" arriving at Highland Park Station]

["Katy Flyer" near Waxahachie, Texas]