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Air-Brake System

Description: Patent for an air brake system for trains which does not require waiting between uses for the brakes to recharge with air.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Dillander, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[T&P Train #610]

Description: Copy photo of T&P train #610 pulling the American Freedom Train in Temple, Texas. There is a thin plume of white smoke rising from the engine. Written below the image are "Temple, Texas Feb 25th 1976" and "David Clary."
Date: February 25, 1976
Creator: Clary, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 29, 1879]

Description: A letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout, expressing his regret that the house felt lonesome without Junia and the three children that were away. He hopes that his son, Paul, will return to live with them if the telegraph company relocates him to an office in town. John then told Junia that when she was ready to make the return home, she should consider whether or not to purchase a second class ticket for the train.
Date: October 29, 1879
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Austin College
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[News Clip: Convention]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 23, 1968
Duration: 3 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Amtrak directors who have given approval to begin Amtrak passenger train service to Dallas.
Date: February 4, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Amtrak which has been approved passenger train service to Dallas.
Date: February 4, 1974, 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

[News Script: Cleburne]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Amtrak from Chicago to Houston no longer serving Cleburne and Temple.
Date: April 10, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Locomotion: Romancing the rails at Texas train museums, or Two Longs and a Short: Highballin' it through Texas train museums!, or Two Longs and a Short: Museums toot the whistle of railroading's colorful past.

Description: Draft of an article about train museums across Texas that was published in the February 2001 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 31.095669 -97.345186
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story indicating delays in the start of Amtrak service from Dallas to Mexican border.
Date: December 14, 1973, 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

Lock-Hinge.

Description: Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Jack.

Description: Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date: August 13, 1895
Creator: Hough, William S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Journal-Box.

Description: Patent for a journal box for railroad cars with an improved bearing and lubricating system.
Date: October 20, 1908
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Triple Valve.

Description: Patent for a triple valve for train air brake systems, which is easier to operate and safer than other air brake systems,
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Dillander, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Engine-Valve.

Description: Patent for an engine valve for air brake systems on trains, which governs the pressure of air released and keeps it steady.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Dillander, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a vertical hook car coupling that also couple air-brakes. In the invention "the drawheads are provided with interlocking tongues to prevent the disconnection of the drawheads by vertical movement; the interlocking faces of the drawheads are provided with sockets to receive a plug for completing the air passage for the train pipes; the drawheads are provided with means for receiving the ordinary hose-coupling on cars not provided with [the] drawhead, and finally other features of [the… more
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Ervin, Robert N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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