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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

["The Kansas City Star"]

Description: On a snowy morning at 10 o'clock, with the temperature at 18 degrees, the Union Pacific Railroad's No. 69, westbound, headed by Engine No. 2877, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, departs from the Kansas City Union Station enroute from St. Louis to Denver on January 5, 1947.
Date: January 5, 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Sunbeam" train leaving Dallas]

Description: In an era of rapid transit in Texas the Southern Pacific's advertisements cited the "Sunbeam" trains - modern streamliners - as the apex in luxury and speed between Dallas and Houston - an elapsed time of four hours and twenty-five minutes. This view portrays the "Sunbeam" train No. 14 southbound headed by Engine No. 651 - a streamlined Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive - rolling out of Dallas Union Station, enroute to Houston on the afternoon of October 5, 1952.
Date: October 5, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Railroad Spike Driving]

Description: Photograph of railroad spike driving demonstration at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. A man wielding a pick-axe leans over a railroad section constructed inside the festival. Festival participants stand around the railroad section, watching him drive the spike into the wood.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Labor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 5, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[T&P Train #249 3]

Description: Copy photo of T&P train #249. There is a second engine to the right of the first train, and another train behind them. Written below the image are "Marshall, Texas Aug 5th 1931" and "William Monypeny."
Date: August 5, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[T&P Train #249]

Description: Copy photo of T&P train #249. There is a second engine to the right of the first train, and another train behind them. Written below the image are "Marshall, Texas Aug 5th 1931" and "William Monypeny."
Date: August 5, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train #807]

Description: Photograph of a closeup shot of train #807. On the car behind the engine "Texas & Pacific" is visible. Text below the image says "Shreveport, La. Sept 5th 1951" and "C.J.DeVilbiss."
Date: September 5, 1951
Creator: DeVilbiss, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Engineers, December 1911

Description: List of engineers employed in the 11th District of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company South Texas Division as of December 1911. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. South Texas Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, December 1915

Description: List of Firemen employed in the Smithville District of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company South Texas Division as of December 1915. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: December 5, 1915
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. South Texas Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to T. C. Burlison, February 5, 1955]

Description: Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to T. C. Burlison stating that the General Grievance Committee would be the best option to handle the consolidation of the 11th and 15th districts, instead of both districts attempting to consolidate on their own, and gives Burlison the details of the meeting he is to appear at.
Date: February 5, 1955
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1917

Description: List of firemen employed in the Smithville District of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company South Texas Division as of October 1917. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: October 5, 1917
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. South Texas Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Train Engine #651 and Car]

Description: Photograph of a train engine and attached cars on railroad tracks, viewed from the side. "651" and "Texas & Pacific" are visible on the side. Additional tracks lay in front, grass between them. Trees and poles rises above the train in the background. Handwritten text below the image says, "Marshall, Texas Sept 5 1949."
Date: September 5, 1949
Creator: Carlson, R. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Letter from M. A. Spoonts to Henry Sayles, June 5, 1909]

Description: Letter from M. A. Spoonts to Henry Sayles discussing the Sante Fe Railway Extensions missing Abilene in its plans. General Attorny Spoonts goes on to assure Mr. Sayles that this is not true, and to reach out to Mr. Harris, who is the president of the Burlington, Colorado & Southern Railway and Forth Worth & Denver Railway.
Date: June 5, 1909
Creator: Spoonts, M. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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