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["Blue Bird" near St. Louis, Missouri]

Wabash Railroad's famous streamliner "Blue Bird" train No. 24 northbound, powered by diesel locomotive No. 1002 with domes on Pullman cars and coaches. glides through beautiful Forest Park, St. Louis, enroute to Chicago.

Date: 1958~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

Rock Island's " Twin Star Rocket" train No. 17, southbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 677, enroute from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Houston, leaves Dallas on the last portion of its run in 1951. This was one of the finest streamliners operating in the nation. Its route from the Twin Cities of the north to the Texas' metropolis adjacent to the Gulf covered a rail distance of 1,363 miles.

Date: 1951

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Super Chief" in Colorado]

Santa Fe's "Super Chief" daily all-Pullman streamliner operating between Chicago and Los Angeles, ascends the steep grades near the old Dick Wootton Ranch at Wootton, Colorado.

Date: 1960

Creator: Meitz, Frank

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Sunbeam" under a Texas sky]

Under a beautiful Texas sky, Southern Pacific's modern diesel powered streamliner "Sunbeam" train No. 14, southbound, rolls on a mile-a-minute schedule enroute from Dallas to Houston.

Date: 1952

Creator: Curry, J. F.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[E-4 Streamliners in Chicago]

The Chicago and North Western Railway's E-4 type streamliners, which headed the "Overland Limited" and "Challenger" trains between Chicago and the West Coast, stand in the Chicago Passenger Station.

Date: 1945~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Southern Pacific engine at the Cadiz St. Roundhouse in Dallas]

Observe this masterpiece of streamlined steam motive power - bearing the name "Sunbeam", Southern Pacific's Engine No. 652, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, on the turntable at the Cadiz Street Roundhouse in Dallas, Texas.

Date: 1950~

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Land O'Corn" streamliner]

Illinois Central Railroad's modern streamliner, "Land O'Corn", train No. 14, eastbound, enroute from Waterloo, Iowa to Chicago.

Date: 1964~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Green Diamond" leaving Chicago]

Illinois Central's modern streamliner "The Green Diamond" train No. 21, southbound, leaving Chicago enroute to St. Louis.

Date: 1955~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Crescent" in the Georgia mountains]

"The Crescent" on w of Southern Railway's deluxe streamliners, crosses the mountains of north Georgia. It carried private room Pullman cars between New York and New Orleans and reclining-seat coaches between Washington D.C. and Atlanta and New Orleans.

Date: 1960~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Colonial" rolling from Boston to New York]

The New Haven's modern streamliner, "The Colonial" enroute between Boston and New York.

Date: 1960

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

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[News Clip: Train]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new train arriving in Fort Worth.

Date: March 25, 1954

Duration: 29 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Mesquite fair]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the reenactment of an 1878 train robbery in Mesquite.

Date: September 17, 1957

Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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["Blue Bird" near St. Louis, Missouri]

["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

["Super Chief" in Colorado]

["Sunbeam" under a Texas sky]

[E-4 Streamliners in Chicago]

[Southern Pacific engine at the Cadiz St. Roundhouse in Dallas]

["Land O'Corn" streamliner]

["The Green Diamond" leaving Chicago]

["The Crescent" in the Georgia mountains]

["The Colonial" rolling from Boston to New York]

[News Clip: Train]

[News Clip: Mesquite fair]