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[News Clip: Old train on display]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the anticipated celebration of Johnson County centennial event featuring a coal-burning train that has been in operation since 1880.
Date: May 2, 1954
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Four injured in train-truck crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about four people who were injured in a train-truck crash.
Date: June 4, 1954
Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Huge T&P bridge moved into place]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new railroad bridge going up in Fort Worth.
Date: June 8, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Vogel ready to start TVA job]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Brigadier General Herbert Vogel leaving his position as Southwest Division Army Engineer at Dallas for an appointment as the head of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Date: August 12, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: One dead, two hurt in accidents]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a collision between a 58-car Santa Fe freight train and an automobile in Oak Cliff, as well as two other automobile accidents in the metroplex.
Date: August 13, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pennsy's Horseshoe Curve]

Description: Photograph of a train passing between mountains near a lake. Characterized as one of the most fantastic scenes on any railroad - this is the Pennsylvania's Horseshoe Curve shortly after sunrise on a spring morning in 1954. This was the centennial year of Horse Shoe Curve, which was built in 1854. The Mountain in the background in the center of the Curve is Kittaning Mountain.
Date: 1954
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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[Hill Family Films, No. 1 - Life With the Hill Family, 1954-1955]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family during December 1954 through March 1955. A title card introduces the film as "filmed an edited by Roy E. Hill." The film begins with footage of the Hill family at home during December 1954 including Mrs. Hill doing dishes, Roy Hill with the family cat, and the family eating dinner. A title card reads "The Henry's" (02:05) and is followed by footage of a group of people with a baby and children roller skating, fly… more
Date: 1954-12/1955-03
Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Partner: UNT Media Library

[LE Train #5]

Description: Photograph of Louisiana Eastern train #5 at the train yards in Shiloh, Louisiana. On the cab is still painted the number 20. Written below the image are "[sic] Shiloh, La. Sept 12th 1954 - Louisiana Eastern #5 (on number plate) (ex Abilene & Southern #20, to L. E #5 in 1953, to L. E. #13)" and "Charles E. Winters."
Date: September 12, 1954
Creator: Winters, Charles E.
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train #316 in Paris, Texas]

Description: Photograph of train #316 in Paris, Texas. Behind the engine, another train's cars are visible. Written below the image is "Paris, Texas Nov 1954 - Paris & Mt. Pleasant #316 (EX T&P #316)" and "H.H.Maples Collection - Joe Thompson Photo."
Date: November 1954
Creator: Thompson, Joe
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Business Cars #1-3]

Description: Photograph of business cars #1-3. There are tracks along the bottom half of the photo. Written below the image are "[sic] Feb 12th 1954 - Business Cars #1, 2 & 3" and "H. E. Chelf."
Date: February 12, 1954
Creator: Chelf, H. E.
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train Wreck in Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a train wreck in Marshall, Texas. There are people looking at the wreck, and cars and firetrucks are visible on the right side of the image. Houses are visible in the background. Text below the image says "Wreck at Marshall, Texas 1954" and "Joe Perkins Collection."
Date: 1954
Creator: Perkins, Joe
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train #316 in Paris, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the front and side of a train engine and car parked at a yard in Paris, Texas. Another train car is partially visible (right). Handwritten text below the image says, "Paris & Mt Pleasant #316 (ex T&P #316) Paris, Texas Nov 1954."
Date: November 1954
Creator: Thompson, Joe R.
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Trains Parked in Paris, Texas Yard]

Description: Photograph of two train engines connected to cars, viewed from the front in a train yard. Another train car with the number "509" is partially visible at far left and buildings are visible to the right. Handwritten text below the image says, "Paris & Mt Pleasant #316 (ex T&P #316) 4-6-0. Paris & Mt Pleasant #333 (ex S.S.W. #333) 2-6-0. Paris, Texas Nov 1954."
Date: November 1954
Creator: Thompson, Joe R.
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Train Engine #316 and Car]

Description: Photograph of a train engine and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from a front side angle. The number "316" is visible within the circle on the front of the engine. Additional tracks lay on either side. Part of another train car can be seen on the left. Handwritten text below the image says, "Paris, Texas Nov 1954 - Paris & Mt Pleasant #316 (ex T&P 316)."
Date: November 1954
Creator: Thompson, Joe
Partner: The Grace Museum

[News Script: 11 Katy freight cars derailed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eleven freight cars of a train derailing for unknown reasons in far north Dallas. No one was injured.
Date: August 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Woman and child killed by train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a woman and young boy killed by a train in Fort Worth, after the two were struck while walking along a railroad overpass and thrown to the street below.
Date: August 27, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: One dead, two hurt in accidents]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a collision between a 58-car Santa Fe freight train and an automobile in Oak Cliff, as well as two other automobile accidents in the metroplex.
Date: August 13, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident involving a car and a railroad switch engine.
Date: December 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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