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[News Script: West point]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a Southern Pacific Freight train derailing and crew members trying to clear the tracks between West Point and Muldoon in Fayette County.
Date: February 19, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Derailment]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story a 15-car freight train derailing near La Grange in Central Texas.
Date: January 5, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Derailment]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the derailment of a 15-car freight train near La Grange in South Central Texas.
Date: January 5, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Car-Replacer.

Description: Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any … more
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: Ragan, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Replacer.

Description: Patent for a car-replacer that has a stronger construction and is more efficient than other car-replacers. It has two skids, one on each side of the rail, the inside skid meant to deflect car-wheels to the rail, and the outside skid meant to slu "the truck in line with the track, and at the same time cause the wheels to be forced sideways on the rails" (lines 27-29).
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Ragan, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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