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["Sunbeam" departing from Houston]

Description: This scene depicts Southern Pacific's Grand Central Station in Houston as it appeared in the last days , the "end of the age of steam". The Southern Pacific's "Sunbeam" train No. 13 northbound headed by Engine No. 650 - a streamlined Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive - departs from the terminal on its run to Dallas at 4:45 PM on August 9, 1953.
Date: August 9, 1953
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Esperanza Station]

Description: Esperanza Station on the Old Mexican Railway, formerly the "Queen's Own" in August 1964. Photographed from the rear-end of passenger train No. 51, eastbound, enroute from Mexico City to Veracruz. This 269-mile line is one of the great scenic routes in the Republic of Mexico.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Monaghan, M.D.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[T&P Shops at Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of an aerial view of the T&P shops at Marshall, Texas. A roundhouse is visible in the bottom portion of the photo and there are train cars all over the tracks. Written below the image are "T&P Marshall Shops - Taken by James Moyers of the Marshall News - Messenger from a plane piloted by Clayton Lewis a T&P friend and customer" and "T&P Topics, Aug 1953, Cover."
Date: August 1953
Creator: Moyers, James
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Missouri Texas and pacific Freight Depot]

Description: Photograph of the Missouri Texas and Pacific freight depot, a white wooden building with signs that read "Denton" and "Missouri Pacific Line," with a crane on a truck on the right, railroad tracks, telephone poles, and Moore business forms visible in the background.
Date: August 21, 1984
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Postcard to John Knight, August 5, 1950]

Description: Postcard to John Knight from his "Papa," who is writing to say he arrived at a location on time. The front of the postcard features a photograph of a train engine and a long line of railroad cars on the tracks. Behind the train, a train depot house is barely visible. Two men stand to the right of the cars, while another man stands on the engine with his hand on his hip.
Date: August 5, 1950
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

Downtown Rail Improvements Require Some Station Closures and Bus Shuttles Sunday, Sept. 2 and Monday, Sept. 3

Description: News release about the use of shuttle buses to connect DART passengers between stations due to work on DART's light rail line. DART will also be running on a reduced service schedule in observance of the Labor Day holiday, overlapping with the reduced rail service caused by the construction.
Date: August 13, 2007
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
Partner: Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
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