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[News Script: Congress]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about bills passed by Congress.
Date: October 4, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Veto]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Richard Nixon's veto on increasing retirement benefits.
Date: October 4, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grapevine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about changes in Grapevine.
Date: October 7, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Override]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Congress overriding Nixon's veto and passing bills.
Date: October 4, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Compound Rail.

Description: Patent for a compound rail that's joints are as strong as the rest of the rail and prevent jolting when a train passes over the joint.
Date: October 27, 1908
Creator: Cromer, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard

Description: Patent for a cattle guard to prevent cattle from treading upon railroad tracks. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Reed, Conwell P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Thurber]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 25, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Lynch, Michael L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[An aerial view of Acock Laboratories]

Description: A distant aerial view of Acock Laboratories in East Austin. East Fifth street runs from left to right in the foreground. The Iglehart building is across the railroad tracks in the center. East 7th Street runs left to right in the upper left background is the baseball field [now Zaragoza Park]
Date: October 8, 1954
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

["California Zephyr" leaving Chicago]

Description: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's "California Zephyr", one of the nation's greatest trains, is leaving Chicago for the Pacific Coast, making a cross-over on the main line tracks south of the Chicago's Union Station in October 1963.
Date: October 1963
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Santa Fe train pulls into Dallas]

Description: AT&SF 2000HP E3A No. 12 and a 2000HP booster unit provide more than ample power to get its three-car train from Dallas to Paris. The train is passing the Cadiz Street roundhouse in south Dallas on October 7, 1952.
Date: October 7, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Sunbeam" train leaving Dallas]

Description: In an era of rapid transit in Texas the Southern Pacific's advertisements cited the "Sunbeam" trains - modern streamliners - as the apex in luxury and speed between Dallas and Houston - an elapsed time of four hours and twenty-five minutes. This view portrays the "Sunbeam" train No. 14 southbound headed by Engine No. 651 - a streamlined Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive - rolling out of Dallas Union Station, enroute to Houston on the afternoon of October 5, 1952.
Date: October 5, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[MoPac Merger Article]

Description: Clipping of an article regarding the merger of Texas & Pacific and Chicago & Eastern Illinois into the Missouri Pacific railroad. The article describes the merger and its effect on stocks. Written below the clipping is "AAR 'Info Letter' Oct 15th 1976."
Date: October 15, 1975
Partner: The Grace Museum

[MoPac Merger Article]

Description: Clipping of an article regarding the merger of Texas & Pacific and Chicago & Eastern Illinois into the Missouri Pacific railroad. The article gives a brief background on the approval and reason for the merger. Written below the clipping is "AAR 'Info Letter' Oct 27th 1976."
Date: October 27, 1976
Partner: The Grace Museum
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