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Air-Brake Coupling

Description: Patent for an air brake coupling for use on trains that opens the air valves when the coupling is attached.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Winton, Robert A.
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Ash-Pan

Description: Patent for an ash pan for trains. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Spratley, George
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Passenger Recorder

Description: Patent for "automatically auditing the number of passengers and the distance traveled by said passengers while en route on a train or other public conveyance." (lines 9-13)
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Rudolf Brown, of Cuero, Texas.
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[Panoramic View of Thurber, Texas]

Description: Copy photo of a panoramic view of Thurber, Texas, including a long train of cars carrying coal. The caption of the photo says "Panoramic View of Thurber, Texas - 40 cars coal ready to ship and the vitrified brick plant. - population about 6000 - the largest coal producing town in the Southwest - capacity 100 cars per day." Below the image are written "July 1911" and "Texas & Pacific Quarterly pg 72."
Date: July 1911
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Partner: The Grace Museum

[Toyah, Texas Roundhouse]

Description: Copy photo of the T&P roundhouse outside Toyah, Texas. The photograph is captioned "[sic] Birdseye View of Toyah and that Section West of the T. & P. Ry." Written underneath the image are "July 1911" and "Texas & Pacific Quarterly."
Date: July 1911
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Partner: The Grace Museum

[Men Posing with a Platform Caboose]

Description: Reproduction photograph of three men wearing dark suits posing next to a a Texas & Pacific railway car with the number "2283." Text below the image says: "The inauguration of an era on the T&P is exemplified by this photo showing the first platform caboose to be used in train service by the T&P in southern La. -- In the photo (L to R) are brakeman "Dutch" Hoffman, Brakeman Grover C. Platt, and conductor H. A. Parker. -- Photo taken by W. M. Chambless T&P agent, at St. James, La. during 1911."
Date: 1911
Creator: Chambless, W. M.
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Partner: The Grace Museum

[The "Doodle Bug" Interior]

Description: This photograph illustrates the interior of a McKeen motor car, known locally as a "Doodle Bug", with its dust-proof round windows. This one, owned by the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway, was an 81-passenger, 70-foot-long, 200-horsepower, gasoline-powered, motor coach. It traveled from Graford through Oran and Salesville to Mineral Wells, thence on to Dallas. It made a round trip daily from 1912 to 1929. A turntable at Graford turned the coaches around. There were two … more
Date: 1911/1935
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Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[AT & SF Crane]

Description: Photograph of an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway crane lifting a train axle while two unidentified men watching below; there are more axles in the foreground and a train and telephone poles in the background.
Date: [1911..1934]
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Partner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Starting Device

Description: Patent for a starting device for internal combustion engines. Illustrations included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Looney, John Pryor
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Switching Device

Description: Patent for a switch throwing device that can be operated from a train car. Illustrations included.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Gordon, Holland F.
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Ever-Level Table.

Description: Patent for tables designed for trains or ships where it is important for maintaining the table top constantly level. It allows for the top to be held constantly level and for maintaining its position without sudden movement or causing overbalancing.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Etheridge, Thomas H., Jr.
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Sleeping-Car

Description: Patent for a railroad sleeping car with an improved mechanism for folding the seats into beds.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Anson, Warren J.
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