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Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Description: Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Life of Francis King Duncan

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Francis King Duncan, who was pronounced dead by three doctors when he cracked his skull open on an old wooden stove in a train collision; but while the undertaker was preparing him for burial, he awoke. He developed a bad case of boils, contracted tuberculosis twice, and caught yellow fever in Oregon. After his service in World War I, Frank Duncan settled in Marfa, Texas, with his wife and daughter.
Date: December 13, 1965
Creator: Bagley, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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[News Clip: Railroad]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 13, 1977, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: One dead, two hurt in accidents]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a collision between a 58-car Santa Fe freight train and an automobile in Oak Cliff, as well as two other automobile accidents in the metroplex.
Date: August 13, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trains]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 13, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard that does not let cattle become entangled and killed in the guard, and does not allow cattle to pass over the rails. Cattle also will not get thrown or trip on the guard, and the trains will not be endangered.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Railroad]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Jack Brown about Southern Pacific Railroads potentially cancelling stops through smaller towns, such as Kaufman, Texas, which could negatively affect the economy and jobs in those smaller towns. This story aired at 10:00 P.M.
Date: December 13, 1977
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Car-train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car crashing into a train in Dallas.
Date: November 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Chief Shriner]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Shriners awaiting an important organization official.
Date: January 13, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Train next to a highway 1 of 2]

Description: Photograph of a slide depicting a train. The slide is set in the middle of a white mat. On the slide itself is a picture of a train that is going through a truss bridge and is right next to the highway. The train has a white horizontal strip along its side and under this is name of the railroad company, which is illegible. There is a metal rail separating the railroad tracks from the two-lane street next to it.
Date: August 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Train next to a highway 2 of 2]

Description: Photograph of a slide depicting a train. The slide is set in the middle of a white mat. On the slide itself is a picture of a train that is going through a truss bridge and is right next to the highway. The train has a white horizontal strip along its side and under this is name of the railroad company, Texas & Pacific Railway. There is a metal rail separating the railroad tracks from the two-lane street next to it.
Date: August 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Car train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a train colliding with a truck in Fort Worth.
Date: March 13, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[SP Train Wreck]

Description: Copy photo of a train wreck on Southern Pacific lines near El Paso, Texas with a small crowd of people near it. Written below the image are "Train wreck on S. P. near El Paso, Texas Jan 13th 1912 7 passenger trains waiting," an inscription of illegible writing on the photograph, and "Avery Von Blon."
Date: January 13, 1912
Creator: Von Blon, Avery
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

Air-Brake.

Description: Patent for train air-brakes to provide set brakes and same auxiliary pressure on all cars regardless of the brake cylinder piston travel distance.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Train Engine #2 and Car]

Description: Photograph of a train engine and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from the side. The text "T.P-M.P.T.R.R. OF N.O." is visible on the car. The train sits up a small grassy incline. Trees rise above the train in the background. Handwritten text below the image says, "T.P.-M.P.T.R.R. of N.O. #2 New Orleans LA. Apr 13th 1971 - Last Run in 1951."
Date: April 13, 1971
Creator: Lawson, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train Engine #907 and Cars - Dallas, Texas]

Description: Photograph of train engine #907 and attached cars on railroad tracks, viewed from a front side angle. "907" is visible on the front of the engine and side of the car. Additional tracks lay to the left and right. Buildings stand in the background on the left and right. Handwritten text below the image says, "Dallas Texas Jun 13th 1931 'Sunshine Special.'"
Date: June 13, 1931
Creator: Andrew Merrilees Collection
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[News Script: One dead, two hurt in accidents]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a collision between a 58-car Santa Fe freight train and an automobile in Oak Cliff, as well as two other automobile accidents in the metroplex.
Date: August 13, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Railroad station]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad passenger station in Denison, Texas.
Date: June 13, 1984, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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