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[Roundhouse at Gainesville, Texas]

Description: Santa Fe Railway's nine-stall roundhouse at Gainesville, Texas on February 27, 1938. Locomotives, laying over between freight runs, are two Consolidations, type 2-8-0, Nos. 1904 and 1910; one Mikado, type 2-8-2, No. 4051; and one yard switcher, type 0-8-0, No. 787.
Date: February 27, 1938
Creator: Mizell, Charles M.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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[News Clip: Mansfield railroad station closed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the closing of the railroad station in the small Tarrant County town of Mansfield. Automobile and truck traffic have overtaken railroads in popularity, causing passenger traffic through the town to stagnate.
Date: February 27, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Railroad repair]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 27, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Plaque About Depot Explosion]

Description: Photograph of a Texas Historical Commission plaque about an explosion at a train depot in Lufkin, Texas, and the supposed death of a railroad employee who returned to the town three years later.
Date: January 27, 2010
Creator: Bell, Jim
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[News Script: Mansfield railroad station closed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the closing of the railroad station in the small Tarrant County town of Mansfield. Automobile and truck traffic have overtaken railroads in popularity, causing passenger traffic through the town to stagnate.
Date: February 27, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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