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["Blue Bird" near St. Louis, Missouri]

Wabash Railroad's famous streamliner "Blue Bird" train No. 24 northbound, powered by diesel locomotive No. 1002 with domes on Pullman cars and coaches. glides through beautiful Forest Park, St. Louis, enroute to Chicago.

Date: 1958~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Texas Eagle" southbound from St. Louis]

Photograph of Missouri Pacific's "Texas Eagle" train No. 1, southbound, passing through Carondelet Park in the suburbs of St. Louis enroute to Texas on a late summer afternoon in 1948.

Date: 1948

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Texas Eagle" at St. Louis' Union Station]

Missouri Pacific's "Texas Eagle" train No. 2 northbound, concluding its run from Texas, backs into the St. Louis Union Station.

Date: 1952~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Alton Limited" in St. Louis, Missouri]

"The Alton Limited" Chicago and Alton Railroad train No. 4, northbound pulling through St. Louis, Missouri in 1946.

Date: 1946

Creator: Peters, Walt

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Missouri Pacific Caboose]

Photograph of a Missouri Pacific caboose in Kansas City, Missouri. There is a second caboose visible behind it. Written below the image are "Kansas City, Mo. Sept 23rd 1974" and "R. H. Carlson."

Date: September 23, 1974

Creator: Carlson, R. H.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The Grace Museum

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, Jr., November 24, 1951]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, Jr., discussing train travel arrangements fro Cecile.

Date: November 24, 1951

Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rosenberg Library

[News Script: Explosion]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Date: August 3, 1969

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Presidents, pianos, & railroad cars]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a broadcast news story.

Date: March 21, 1969

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, August 7, 1873]

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote her a short letter while on a train on the way to St. Louis. He compared the country and farms they passed to the ones back in Texas.

Date: August 7, 1873

Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin College

Map of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and connections.

Map shows railroads, state and territorial boundaries, major cities and towns, areas of Native American habitation, military posts, for eastern half of the United States as far west as the Rocky Mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.

Date: 1878

Creator: St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company

Item Type: Map

Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Joesph R. Bertig, May 23, 1950]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig discussing Mr. Bertig's steady recovery and tendency towards self-pity. Mr. Kempner then reminds him of his sister, Jeane's, bad health and how she always takes it in stride. He also tells him to travel home by train.

Date: May 23, 1950

Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from David F. Weston to R. L. Kempner, January 12, 1949]

Letter from David F. Weston to R. L. Kempner requesting to fill a form covering dividends paid on stock in the former's name.

Date: January 12, 1949

Creator: Weston, David Ferdinand

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from R. Osthoff to E. Seuel, July 24, 1929]

Letter from R. Osthoff to E. Seuel, asking for reimbursements for train fare and light bulbs.

Date: July 24, 1929

Creator: Osthoff, R.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Concordia University Texas

[Telegram from Dan to Joseph R. Bertig, June 6, 1944]

Telegram sent by Dan Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig discussing securing a train ticket for Mary Jean.

Date: June 6, 1944

Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rosenberg Library

[News Script: Amtrak]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Amtrak inter- American which was expected to be hours behind schedule for its Dallas and Fort Worth stops on the run to Laredo because of the hoorah ceremonies along the way.

Date: March 14, 1974, 8:25 a.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections