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[News Clip: Texas tankfuls Palestine]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 16, 1986, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: East Texas train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about money being voted to build a steam-engine train.
Date: August 17, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Locomotives]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas parks and wildlife commission which is looking for steam locomotive for its new proposed 24 mile tourist train in East Texas.
Date: May 27, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lock-Joint Rail.

Description: Patent for a lockable joint for connecting segments of a railway track. The joint is resistant to breakages due to the passage of trains but allows for the replacement of worn track.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Swindler, Edgar L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive-Pilot Coupling.

Description: Patent for a locomotive-pilot coupling that can lift or elevate locomotive pilot or draw-bars, a cylinder that can turn in all directions depending on how the bars moves and is collecting to the motor fluid supply, a piston in the cylinder that connects the bar to the cylinder, a swinging jaw, and various other parts.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Operating Device for Air-Break Angle-Cocks.

Description: Patent for improvements in air-break systems where the angle-cock may be operated by the breakeman from either side of the car without going between the cars. (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 10, 1903
Creator: Riley, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draw-Bar for Locomotives.

Description: Patent for an improved draw-bar for locomotives that consists of a frame, a pilot and draw bar, a counterweight that moves vertically in the pilot, a coupler head with a knuckle and a toe and a guide arm, and a release mechanism for the locking device on the bar.
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.

Description: Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Duzan, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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