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[Train on Bridge #2]

Description: Photograph of a train on a bridge. The train carts seen in the picture are cylindrical. A hotel and clock tower can be seen in the background. Some vehicles and people are on the road under the bridge. Back of photo reads, "Park-Orleans Grade Separation - Beaumont - June 1965 Beaumont Division".
Date: June 1965
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Edison Museum

[Train on Bridge #1]

Description: Photograph of a train on a bridge. Most of the train carts seen in the picture are rectangular. A hotel and clock tower can be seen in the background. Some vehicles and people are on the road under the bridge. Back of photo reads, "Park-Orleans Grade Separation - Beaumont - June 1965 Beaumont Division".
Date: June 1965
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Edison Museum

[Train Junction #2]

Description: Photograph of a train junction. Visible are multiple railroad tracks and train carts. Beaumont's taller buildings can be seen in the background, but there are also various smaller buildings surrounding the train junction.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Edison Museum

[View of Beaumont, Texas from Train Junction]

Description: Photograph of a distant view of Beaumont, Texas from an empty Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe yard. The city's three tallest buildings can be seen in the far background with muddy puddles in the foreground. Also visible are train tracks and carts as well as a turntable and small roundhouse on the right side.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Edison Museum

[Photograph of a Large Group of People by a Train]

Description: Photograph of a large group of people of the Cattlemen's Convention or Bust centered around a small marching band called the Allessandro Band; to the left of the group there is a train positioned on a railroad, and there are a number of buildings positioned directly behind them. The title at the bottom of the photo reads: "Y. M. B. L. to Fort Worth, Nov. 26, 1913."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Juarez, Mexico]

Description: Photograph of a crowd near a train in Juarez, Mexico. People to the left are seen dancing to the music of a band of string instruments, pictured at center, while people in the train and lined up at the right watch.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Prismoidal (One Rail) Railway System, Adapted for City Streets, Suburban, and General Railroad Traffic

Description: Photograph of a crowd of people on a train. A handwritten note reads "W.W. Knowles, Bastrop, TX, [illegible] at Brenham." A printed note on the back of the photograph reads, "Prismoidal (One Rail) Railway System, Adapted for City Streets, Suburban, and General Railroad Traffic; Practicable by Steam, or Horse power; Elevated or at Grade; Built and equipped at one half the cost of any other plan of equal capacity; Cars impossible to be thrown from track; examination of this system, by engineers … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Postcard from W. B. Johnston to George Pendexter, August 16, 1912]

Description: Postcard from W. B. Johnston to George Pendexter saying that he has just returned from his vacation of 25 days. The photograph on the reverse side of the card shows a Quaker Oats Plant having been burned in March 1911; the building is still smoking at the time of this picture. There is also a train in the photograph with the words "Ann Arbor" written on the side.
Date: August 16, 1912
Creator: Johnston, W. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

Granite Mountain

Description: Photograph of two men in a hilly landscape, with a moving train in the background. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Granite Mountain near Marble Falls, Texas 1882, A&NW [Austin and Northwest] Narrow Gauge R.R."
Date: 1882
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Railroad near Llano]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of people and horse-drawn carriages gathered around an A&N Locomotive No. 1 train on a railroad in a forest. A note on back reads "Mr. Will Todman from England, Time Keeper for Quarries at Llano, Texas. Quarrying granite for consturction of the State Capitol at Austin. 50,000 tones narrow gauge R.R. A. & N.W. Near Llano -- before R.R. was finished to an Austin Band was was hired to play -- Group Moore F. [illegible], (Major Ramsdell)." The Austin and Northwestern Railroad … more
Date: [1864..1881]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from Tommie Suits to Elmer Josephine Wheatly, July 24, 1937]

Description: Letter written to Elmer Josephine Bahl from Tommie Suits in New York City. Suits describes a letter that he received from Elmer's mother and mentions that "Johnnie Lou said she got her cat." Suits talks about dancing and his trip to Washington D.C. over July 31st to August 1st and 2nd: "I had planned on getting there early Saturday and staying until late Monday."
Date: July 24, 1937
Creator: Suits, Tommie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

[Letter from Dr. James Steele to Dr. Joseph Pound, July 31, 1912]

Description: Letter from Dr. James Steele to Dr. Joseph Pound with regrets that he won't be able to visit at the time he thought he would be able to; Steele says he spends "every Monday morning in San Marcos...and leave on the 1:40 P.M. train in time to reach my office here by 4 P.M." Steele also hopes to meet up with the Pounds in San Marcos one day and let his daughter spend a week with them.
Date: July 31, 1912
Creator: Steele, Dr. James S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead

[Letter from George P Fuilay to Dr. Joseph Pound, August 29, 1904]

Description: Letter from George P. Fuilay to Dr. Joseph Pound telling him to correspond with Mrs. Murdock in order to acknowledge his presence at the upcoming reunion in St. Louis. Fuilay says that Murdock had told him that the "Texas & Pacific and Iron Mountain Railways will give our comrades free passage to St. Louis."
Date: August 29, 1904
Creator: Fuilay, George P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead

Horse Shoe Curve S.P.R.R. near El Paso, Texas

Description: Photograph of a train near El Paso, Texas. The train is going along a curved track in a field, and the photograph was taken from the rear cart of the train. Inscription on the back reads "Horse Shoe Curve S.P.R.R. near El Paso, Texas -- taken from rear end of train while train was in motion, note double header."
Date: February 8, 1915
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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