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[News Script: Excited Father in Train Auto Crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man who crashed into a switcher engine with a borrowed car. He was rushing home to take his seven-month-old son to a hospital after the child lost the tip of his finger, because his four year old brother slammed a refrigerator door on his hand.
Date: August 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train truck accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man, Tiny Jordan, escaping from an impending collision between his truck and an oncoming freight train.
Date: July 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Islitas Quadrangle: Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Islitas, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, water bodies, boundaries, railroads, roads and highways, ranches, abandoned coal mines, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Bruner, C. A.; Moore, J. C.; Drouet, A.; McKibben, T. H.; Worthington, J. P.; Kenda, P. et al.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: Pettus Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Pettus, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, water bodies, boundaries, water wells, schools, churches, railroads, pipelines, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Lukesh, G. R.; Rehberg, A., Jr. & Jones, T. M.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[News Script: Youngest railroad head is optimistic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about railroad president D. B. Jenks, the youngest president of a major railroad in the nation, meeting with rail officials in Fort Worth.
Date: March 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Switch Engine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a section of railroad track getting repaired in Fort Worth.
Date: January 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an award presented to the Texas and Pacific Railway company by a religious action group.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand Prairie]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of two teenagers at a railroad intersection in Grand Prairie prompting the attention of the Grand Prairie city council.
Date: April 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Texas Chief" in Oklahoma]

Description: Winding through the rugged countryside near Washita Canyon in Oklahoma, the Santa Fe's "Texas Chief" powered by four diesel units and a consist of eleven cars, rolls southward towards Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, and Galveston, Texas, circa 1956.
Date: 1956
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[The "Queen's Own" in Paso del Macho Yards]

Description: Electric locomotive of the former Mexican Railway, the "Queen's Own" in the Paso del Macho yards around 1956. This railroad has operated under catenary from Paso del Macho to Esperanza since 1928. It is the only section of the National Railways of Mexico which is electrified. On this railroad you travel over one of the most spectacular rail routes on the North American continent. In the background looms the Cumbres de Maltrata range where a 4.5 per cent gradient must be traversed.
Date: 1956~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Train #75 in Abilene, Texas]

Description: Copy photo of train #75 in Abilene, Texas. There's a man checking out one of the wheels on the train. Visible on the train's car is "Texas & Pacific." Written below the image is "Abilene, Texas Mar 9th 1956 (Ex T&P #316)" and "T&P."
Date: March 9, 1956
Partner: The Grace Museum

[T&P's First Woman Telegrapher]

Description: Photograph of Mrs. W. S. Moore, Texas and Pacific Railway's first woman telegrapher, sitting at her desk. The room is decorated with various vases and pictures, as well as a mirror on the wall and a clock on the other wall. In the window there are four plants. Below the image is written "Mrs. W. S. Moore - T&P's first woman telegrapher," and "T&P Topics, Mar 1956, pg 21."
Date: March 1956
Partner: The Grace Museum
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