10 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 10

["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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Gainesville, Texas Depot]

Description: Although many years have elapsed, the Santa Fe's Gainesville, Texas passenger station built in 1901 still retains a well preserved appearance in June of 1953. In reality, it has changed very little from those early days in 1901.
Date: June 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.550696 -94.357869
Partner: The Grace Museum
captions transcript

[News Clip: Mansfield railroad station closed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the closing of the railroad station in the small Tarrant County town of Mansfield. Automobile and truck traffic have overtaken railroads in popularity, causing passenger traffic through the town to stagnate.
Date: February 27, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train wreck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a train derailment and wreck with unknown cause in Alvarado.
Date: March 1, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mansfield railroad station closed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the closing of the railroad station in the small Tarrant County town of Mansfield. Automobile and truck traffic have overtaken railroads in popularity, causing passenger traffic through the town to stagnate.
Date: February 27, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Army Finance Head Visits QM Depot]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a visit to the Fort Worth Quartermaster Depot by the U.S. Army's Chief of Finance, Major General Bickford E. Sawyer.
Date: March 10, 1953
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Boy Scouts off for jamboree]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a big group of Boy Scouts boarding a train in Dallas for the International Scout Jamboree in California.
Date: July 9, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Daniel returns for report to Texans]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the return home to Texas of Senator Price Daniel after several months in Washington.
Date: June 30, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen