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[Photograph of Brazos River Flood]

Description: Photograph of the 1898 Brazos River flood. This picture was taken on Elm Street in East Waco, and it was purchased at the estate sale of J. A. Curry in Waco, Texas. An iron bridge used by the railroad can be seen above the water.
Date: 1898
Creator: Sanders, M. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of a Train]

Description: Photograph by Frank Duncan of a train with dark smoke coming from its engine traveling on tracks with derailed train cars next to them. In the foreground of the picture, several men are sitting on a small wooden train car watching the train.
Date: unknown
Creator: Duncan, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Railroad Engine 154]

Description: Photograph of Longview, Texas railroad workers posing next to Engine Number 154. From left to right, the men pictured are: J. W. Kinney, Switchman; Dee Moore, Longview Switch Engine; B. C. Todd, Sr., Fireman; W. J. Padon, Engineer; and Joe Still, Engine Foreman.
Date: 1870~
Creator: Culpepper, Cody
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

[Railroads in Longview]

Description: Photograph of four railroad workers posing next to a train in Longview, Texas. The engine is a 4-4-0 locomotive with the initials for Houston and Great Northern Railroad Company (H & G N R Co. #2) on the tender car and San Jacinto on the cab.
Date: 1870~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

Trains & Roundhouse

Description: Three photographs, with top photo showing trains on the track, with the Swift Building in the background; middle photo shows the roundhouse, bottom photo is a closer shot of two trains on the track.
Date: 193X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Taylor Public 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

[Locomotive on bridge]

Description: Black and white photograph shows a locomotive, a 4-4-0 coal burner, built in the late 1880s; the train is backing in from Georgetown; this train is on the track above the W.J. Walsh family; they are having a picnic on the rocky banks of Brushy Creek in Old Town Round Rock.
Date: 1904
Creator: Henington Publishing Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Williamson Museum

[Train on Tracks]

Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Southern Train at a station in Port Arthur. There are two men walking towards the camera, and a large group of people on the platform behind them. There is a small white building at the station. A sticker on the back of the photograph identifies the photographer as James Everett, from Groves, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Men Standing in Front of Train]

Description: Photograph of four men standing in front of Southern Pacific train engine. The man on the left is facing sideways, the two men in the middle are standing on the tracks and holding their hats in their hands, and the man on the right has his arms crossed.
Date: unknown
Creator: Business Men's Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Turntable at San Lazaro engine terminal]

Description: Photograph of locomotive No. 67, a consolidation type 2-8-0, on the turntable in the San Lazaro engine terminal enroute from its roundhouse stall to servicing tracks. The "F.C. I." abbreviation on the tender is Ferro-carril Cuautla Y Ixtla" (Cuauta and Ixtla Railroad). In yesteryears this locomotive ran only on this 50-mile branch line. Soon it will head the National Railways of Mexico's narrow gauge passenger consist on the main line run from Mexico City via Cuauta to Puebla. This 3-foot ga… more
Date: June 1967
Creator: Peterson, Roland B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["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

[Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails"]

Description: Photograph of Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails" - the "California Limited" train No. 4 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 2928 - a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive, and a consist of fourteen standard heavyweight cars- crosses the Canyon Diablo Bridge near Winslow, Arizona. Observe this locomotive's automatic-type, elevating smokestack, designed to increase the up-draft, thereby increasing combustion efficiency in the firebox.
Date: 1947~
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

[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

[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
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