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[Santa Fe steam engine]

Description: Postcard image of the Santa Fe steam engine. People standing around engine. Man and two boys sitting in front of engine. Sign on side of engine reads " Santa Fe All The Way". Flag to far right.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Shaft from the Grandcamp near the railroad tracks after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

Description: A metal spar from the Grandcamp has been driven into the ground at about a 45 degree angle near the railroad tracks after the ship's explosion. Debris is scattered on the ground throught the area. In the background, flames and large clouds of smoke can be seen in the direction of the port.
Date: April 16, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

[Santa Fe Park]

Description: Photograph of Santa Fe City Park at Hwy 60 and Main in Hereford. A sign reads, "Stop for a drink of water, from the town without a toothache, Hereford, Texas". A train is visible beyond the park.
Date: July 10, 1986
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Deaf Smith County Library

[Santa Fe Park]

Description: Photograph of Santa Fe City Park at Hwy 60 and Main in Hereford. A sign reads, "Stop for a drink of water, from the town without a toothache, Hereford, Texas". A train is visible in the background.
Date: July 10, 1986
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Deaf Smith County Library

[Caboose Car]

Description: Photograph of an A.T. & S.F. caboose car on display behind a green metal fence in Weatherford, Texas. Cars are parked in the lot to the right.
Date: unknown
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries

[The "Doodle Bug" Interior]

Description: This photograph illustrates the interior of a McKeen motor car, known locally as a "Doodle Bug", with its dust-proof round windows. This one, owned by the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway, was an 81-passenger, 70-foot-long, 200-horsepower, gasoline-powered, motor coach. It traveled from Graford through Oran and Salesville to Mineral Wells, thence on to Dallas. It made a round trip daily from 1912 to 1929. A turntable at Graford turned the coaches around. There were two … more
Date: 1911/1935
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Man standing in doorway of train car]

Description: Fotografía de un hombre con sombrero de vaquero, camisa de vestir y vaqueros azules, de pie en la puerta de un tren. El hombre parece estar tomando notas en una hoja de papel sobre sus palmas. A la derecha de la fotografía se ve un montón de sillas de plástico.
Date: November 11, 2004
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Index to map of Texas: Clason's commercial index of Texas cities and towns, gives population, county, railroads, altitude, description, post offices, garages and hotels]

Description: Book contains information about Texas including the populations of many of the cities and counties in Texas according to the 1910 Census. The locations in the booklet are keyed to correspond with Clason's Guide Map of Texas. This book is missing the cover and several pages; the original cover title read: Clason's Texas road map and railway guide. Includes indexes.
Date: 1910/1919~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Denton Public Library

["The Grand Canyon" in Cajon Pass]

Description: Photograph taken in the summer of 1951. "The Grand Canyon" Santa Fe No. #3775, a 3765 Class Northern, is eastbound roaring through Cajon Pass while a freight train waits on the side. The cantilever signal was very common when the photo was taken, but now have been mostly replaced.
Date: 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Pennsy's Horseshoe Curve]

Description: This photograph depicts the most famous stretch of railroad main line in the world as it appeared in the autumn of 1951- the Pennsy's Horseshoe Curve, located in Kittanning Gap in Pennsylvania. In this scene a Pennsylvania K4s locomotive acts as a "helper" on the head-end of a diesel powered train.
Date: 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Pennsy's Horseshoe Curve]

Description: Photograph of a train passing between mountains near a lake. Characterized as one of the most fantastic scenes on any railroad - this is the Pennsylvania's Horseshoe Curve shortly after sunrise on a spring morning in 1954. This was the centennial year of Horse Shoe Curve, which was built in 1854. The Mountain in the background in the center of the Curve is Kittaning Mountain.
Date: 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Montrealer" near Montreal]

Description: Photograph of one of America's most unique passenger trains. Depicted in this photograph is the "Montrealer" train No. 21, northbound, on the last portion of its journey near Montreal, Canada. The famous old name train - headed by a C,ational's Engine No. 231 - a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive with a consist of five standard heavyweight cats - was om service for a number of decades. "The Montrealer" was a Pennsylvania train from Washington D.C. to New York; a New Haven train from New York to… more
Date: January 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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