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["Sunset Limited" at Santa Barbara depot]

Description: In the days when Steam was King, Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" train No. 2 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 2286 - a Pacific type 4-6-2- locomotive - with a consist of nine standard heavyweight cars - awaits the conductor's "B-o-a-rd!" at the depot in Santa Barbara.
Date: 1916~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Wheelock Station]

Description: Photograph of Wheelock station. There are two men visible to the left of the building. Written on the left side of the photo is "4 - Wheelock 3-3-16." Below the photo is written "T&P Wheelock Mar 3rd 1916 [E.B Wheelock was an early officer of the T&P boat also named after him see T&P topics March 1949 pg.37]" and "Don Watson Collection."
Date: March 3, 1916
Creator: Watson, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train #136]

Description: Photograph of train #136. There is a large mound of coal in the car behind the engine. Written beneath the image is "Addis, La. Feb 8 1916" and "Watson & Brown Collection."
Date: February 8, 1916
Creator: Watson & Brown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to A. M. Hilliard and J. Carroll, February 18, 1916]

Description: Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to A. M. Hilliard and J. Carroll requesting a list of the seniority rights of the engineers in the eleventh and twelfth seniority districts, which are about to be merged. The letter also requests information about what actions have been taken in regard to which engineers will be working in the merged district.
Date: February 18, 1916
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to W. S. Carter, January 3, 1916]

Description: Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to W. S. Carter discussing prior meetings and arrangements of the consolidation of the 11th and 12th seniority districts through the Joint Protective Board. The author also asks if he has the authority to consolidate these districts based on votes of the district members.
Date: January 3, 1916
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll, January 6, 1916]

Description: Letter from Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to M. W. Curry and J. Carroll discussing correspondence between the Chairman and President Carter regarding the consolidation of the seniority districts. The union is not in a position to consolidate districts until the Joint Protective Board is in session and willing to revise the schedule.
Date: January 6, 1916
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Letter from W. S. Carter to M. O. Laisure, January 4, 1916]

Description: Letter from W. S. Carter to M. O. Laisure discussing that Laisure's inquiry as to the authority to enable the 11th and 12th seniority districts to consolidate. Carter reiterates that Laisure does not have the permissions to authorize the consolidation, and to do so would call for objections from the company.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Carter, W. S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

Railroad map of Mexico.

Description: Map shows existing and proposed railroad lines, state boundaries, major cities and station stops; electric [power?] lines on inset. Inset: "Enlarged map, state of Mexico and surrounding country." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,800,000].
Date: 1916
Creator: United States. War Department. General Staff War College Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Description: Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Cobb, John Ollen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tie Mold

Description: Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Switch Stand.

Description: Patent for a railway switch stand that locks "a switch of this class and from which the lock cannot be removed except when the switch is fully locked, thus obviating accidents by always insuring a locked condition of the switch after operation and thereby preventing the switch from being subsequently actuated by unauthorized persons" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Berger, James H. & Rosson, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Rail Brace.

Description: Patent for a new railway-rail brace designed "particularly to be used on curves of rail-way tracks, and which ties the rails as to prevent spreading of said rails" (lines 13-16), including illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Barnes, Ned Eastman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad-Tie.

Description: Patent for "improvements in railroad ties [...] which will prevent the rail from spreading, sinking, or creeping" (lines 13-16). It also "is the provision of a tie in which the resilient qualities of the old type of wood tie are retained and combined with the advantages which are present in the use of a metallic tie" (lines 17-21), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Shearer, Frederick C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Southern Traction Company Minutes: 1916-1927]

Description: Minutes documenting the regular and special meetings of stockholders and of the board of directors for the Southern Traction Company in Dallas, Texas. It includes documentation regarding attendance and proceedings, along with supplemental documentation related to the business of the company.
Date: 1916/1927
Creator: Southern Traction Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Interurban Railway Museum
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