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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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Texas & Pacific Train Bell #2]

Description: Photograph of a train bell chained on a wheeled cart, among unidentified furniture. Handwritten text below the image says, "T&P Bell supposedly off T&P #333 at Bonham, Texas Apr 23rd 1982 owned by Lee Roy Bilbo."
Date: April 23, 1982
Creator: Watson, Don
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Texas & Pacific Train Bell #1]

Description: Photograph of a train bell chained on a wheeled cart, among unidentified furniture. Handwritten text below the image says, "T&P Bell supposedly off T&P #333 at Bonham, Texas Apr 23rd 1982 owned by Lee Roy Bilbo."
Date: April 23, 1982
Creator: Watson, Don
Partner: The Grace Museum

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a pin-and-link car-coupling that allows "cars to be readily coupled and uncoupled without going between them, and by which a link may be readily guided into the mouth of a draw-head without necessitating a person going between the cars" (lines 11-16). It also has a durable link lifting or guiding device.
Date: September 1, 1896
Creator: Orr, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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