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Texas Rail System Plan

Description: This plan addresses the Texas Rail System Plan (TRSP). The TRSP provides the plan to implement commuter and freight rail improvements that keep pace with economic growth. It covers issues such as infrastructure, public need, and long-range planning.
Date: October 2005
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
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Lubricator.

Description: Patent for a lubricating device for use on railroad cars, which continuously supplies lubricant to the journal box of the train car.
Date: October 6, 1908
Creator: Maness, William C.
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Torch.

Description: Patent for torch specifically designed for "trainmen in the operation of trains at night" (lines 12-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1915
Creator: Taylor, Frank J.
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Journal-Box.

Description: Patent for a journal box for railroad cars with an improved bearing and lubricating system.
Date: October 20, 1908
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis
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Spark-Arrester.

Description: Patent for Spark-Arrester. The author claims his invention catches sparks and throws them to the bottom of the chamber to the discharge pipe. Used in locomotive smoke stacks.
Date: October 12, 1880
Creator: Swan, Robert F.
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Spark-Arrester

Description: Patent for a spark arrester designed to extinguish the glowing cinders of smoke stacks. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
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Stock Car

Description: Patent for stock car. This is a train car for moving livestock. Illustration included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah Conklin & Broyles, Winn
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Railroad-Tie

Description: Patent for a railroad tie “which is so constructed as to enable the rails to have resiliency” (lines 16-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 9, 1915
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
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Freight-Car Door.

Description: Patent for a freight car door with fastening that prevents a sealed or locked door from unintended opening or unauthorized access.
Date: October 28, 1913
Creator: Judia, George H.
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Car Brake

Description: Patent for a car brake. This is an invention for a brake on railroad cars.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Brown, Herbert Eddes
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Railroad-Crossing Signal

Description: Patent for signaling devices designed for use along railroads and grade crossings and meant to be automatically operated upon the approach of a train by giving a visible or audible signal at the crossing which will warn travelers of the approach of the train and calcuated to avoid the occurrence of accidents. The signal device includes a track associated train operated circuit closing device for energizing a bell, flashing light, or signal arm or any other equivalence or suitable signal device … more
Date: October 17, 1922
Creator: Hamilton, Morgan Smith & Brady, Charles Pettus
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Folding Car-Step.

Description: Patent for folding steps attached to a railway car or trolley, which are easily operated by the conductor and when folded block the exit of the car to prevent passengers leaving or entering without the steps.
Date: October 29, 1907
Creator: Felkner, William G.
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Car-Replacer.

Description: Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any … more
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: Ragan, John
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Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for "...certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1886
Creator: Mitchell, William A.
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Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a sprin… more
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Baade, John
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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a novel, simple, and practical car coupling that has a link and gravity pin. It "may be set to coupe two of the improved couplings on approaching cars, when these devices engage each other, and also that may be manipulated by the usual lever or chain attachment to uncouple two connected drawheads, effecting such a detachment from the sides or roof of the car" (lines 12-19).
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Tiner, John F.
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