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[T&P Trains Leaving Dallas]

Description: Photograph of a clipping from T&P Topics December 1955 issue. Pictured are six T&P trains leaving Dallas for the 1935 Rose Bowl game. Written below the image are "[sic] One of the biggest and longest passenger movements of the T&P took place when 9 special trains ran out of Dallas to the Rose Bowl in California carrying 2000 S.M.U. Mustang supporters. The T&P ran 6 of the 9 trains. All were 900 series locomotives Two had feedwater heaters. They are (L-R) #'s 909, 900, 908, 901, 907, and 905. Th… more
Date: December 1955
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Texas and Pacific Train #700]

Description: Photograph of a train engine connected to at least one car that has "Texas & Pacific" written across the top. Handwritten text below the image says, "Louisiana Eastern #5 ex T&P #700. Amite, La. about 1955 (Scrapped about 1963 by Paulson Spence Heirs)."
Date: 1955~
Creator: Devilbiss, C. J.
Partner: The Grace Museum

[News Script: Derailed train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Texas and New Orleans freight train derailing in Richardson, Texas.
Date: March 9, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train hits truck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a collision between a Rock Island passenger train and a gravel truck just east of Haltom City, killing the driver of the truck, Elmer A. Booker.
Date: January 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trains]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the scrapping of the Texas and Pacific steam locomotive, the "Old 638" and the preservation of the "Number 610" for touring purposes, and renamed it the "Will Rogers."
Date: February 2, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Glass freight car shows load shifts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plexiglass freight car used by the Santa Fe railroad company in Dallas to demonstrate to its workers how loads inside rail cars shift.
Date: February 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including the groundbreaking ceremony for a Dallas building with the Gibralter building in the background (00:00 - 02:07; children painting birdhouses and playing football (02:07 - 04:07); a birthday celebration (04:27 - 06:43), billboards for the Santa Fe railroad service to Dallas (06:43 - 07:07); a Ford Farming building in the snow (07:07 - 11:45); a family vacation to Paradise Valley Country Club in … more
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 54 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 5 - Helicopter and Railroad Rides]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a helicopter ride with footage of newly constructed roadways and North Dallas and Mr. Stewart awaiting the arrival of a train at White Rock train station.
Date: 1955~
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[News Clip: Railroad]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new main-line railroad being under construction for the first time in almost a quarter century.
Date: September 2, 1955
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Circus arrives but opening is delayed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus arriving in Fort Worth. Technical difficulties delay the first performance.
Date: September 28, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 16 train cars being derailed at the southwest outskirts of Richardson near Dallas.
Date: March 8, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trackmobile]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a machine called a Trackmobile, for use on railroad tracks or road, making its debut in Fort Worth.
Date: November 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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 freight train accident and derailment in near Hebron in Denton County. No one is injured, but a large number of train cars are damaged.
Date: April 24, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cleburne receives Santa Fe engine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Santa Fe railroad company presenting an antique steam locomotive to the town of Cleburne, to be placed as a monument in one of the city's parks.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Train wreck]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a freight train accident and derailment in near Hebron in Denton County. No one is injured, but a large number of train cars are damaged.
Date: April 24, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cleburne receives Santa Fe engine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Santa Fe railroad company presenting an antique steam locomotive to the town of Cleburne, to be placed as a monument in one of the city's parks.
Date: April 26, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about several celebrities visiting Dallas, including actress Yvonne De Carlo and actor Zachary Scott.
Date: May 6, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Man killed in train-truck crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about R. E. Darby dying instantly after his truck collided with a Santa Fe freight train.
Date: April 7, 1955
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: King leads St. Paul delegation to Texas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about King Boreas the 19th, ruler of the St. Paul, Minnesota Winter Carnival visiting Dallas.
Date: April 15, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Lady Shriners go to national meet]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 24 members of the Women's Oriental Shrine leaving for Detroit for a national convention.
Date: May 15, 1955
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Log jam]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a log jam in the Trinity River. The log jam threatened a railroad bridge.
Date: May 20, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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