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[Lounge car on "The Bluebonnet" ]

Interior view of the Parlor Lounge Car in the consist of the Katy's "The Bluebonnet" train No. 7 southbound enroute from Dallas to San Antonio, Texas. This beautiful parlor lounge was a standard heavyweight car.

Date: 1943

Item Type: Photograph

[Missouri - Kansas - Texas train near Dallas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad train No. 7 headed by Engine No. 381, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, near Dallas in 1948.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["Morning Star" departing Dallas]

Cotton Belt's "Morning Star" train No. 6, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 677, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute to Memphis, Tennessee.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["North Coast Limited" departing from St. Paul, Minnesota]

Photograph of the Northern Pacific's de Luxe "North Coast Limited" westbound, headed by engine No. 2671 -- a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive -- departing from the St. Paul Union Station. City buildings are visible behind the train.

Date: 1941

Item Type: Photograph

[Passengers boarding the "Twin Cities 400"]

On a snowy night in December 1947, passengers are boarding the Chicago and North Western's "Twin Cities 400" streamliner at the Chicago Station.

Date: December 1947

Item Type: Photograph

["Pocono Express" at Binghamton, New York]

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway's Pocono Express, train No. 2, headed by a big Hudson locomotive, at Binghamton, New York on August 13, 1947.

Date: August 13, 1947

Item Type: Photograph

[Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails"]

Photograph of Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails" - the "California Limited" train No. 4 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 2928 - a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive, and a consist of fourteen standard heavyweight cars- crosses the Canyon Diablo Bridge near Winslow, Arizona. Observe this locomotive's automatic-type, elevating smokestack, designed to increase the up-draft, thereby increasing combustion efficiency in the firebox.

Date: 1947~

Item Type: Photograph

[Santa Fe's "The Chief"]

Reminiscent of the "Glory Days of Steam" the Santa Fe's "The Chief" train No. 20, eastbound, tri-headed by locomotives, is climbing to the crest of Raton Pass in New Mexico in May 1947.

Date: May 1947

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pacific engine at the Cadiz St. Roundhouse in Dallas]

On the ready tracks at The Cadiz St. roundhouse in Dallas are SP-T&NO 4-6-2 No. 652, Cotton Belt 4-8-2 No.679, and FW&D No. 51 on a partly cloudy day in 1949.

Date: 1949

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pacific locomotive arriving in Dallas]

Locomotive No. 620 one of the P-6 class "protection" engines kept under steam at Ennis, substitutes for one of the three streamlined P-14 engines (650, 651,or 652) normally assigned to bring The Hustler, Train No. 15 into Dallas in 1949. The Southern Pacific was in direct competition with the FW&D in Texas at the time and the Dallas/Houston route's schedule had to be protected against engine failures. One engine was kept with steam up at Ennis and another at Hearne for just such emergencies.

Date: 1949

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pacific train arriving in Dallas]

With the Sears building in the background and the Union Terminal Company's coach yard on its left The Hustler Train No. 15 rolls into Dallas in the early afternoon in 1949 behind one of Southern Pacific's handsome P-14 steam locomotives.

Date: 1949

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pacific train departing from Dallas]

Southern Pacific, Engine No. 650, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, heading Train No. 16 departing from Dallas in 1948.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pacific train in Dallas]

Southern Pacific's train No. 15 headed by Engine No. 651, a type 4-6-2 in Dallas, Texas.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["The Southerner" crossing the Trinity River in Texas]

One of the Texas and Pacific Railway's finest long-distance passenger consists, " The Southerner" train No. 8 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 908, a 900 class Mountain, type 4-8-2 locomotive, crossing the Trinity River Bridge, enroute from Fort Worth into Dallas.

Date: 1948~

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["The Sportsman" in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]

Chesapeake and Ohio's "The Sportsman" headed by Engine No. 491, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, awaits the departure signal at the White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia Depot.

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

["St. Louis Special" departing Chicago]

Illinois Central Railroad's "St. Louis Special" train No. 1-501, headed by Engine No. 2450 - a mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from the Central Station in Chicago.

Date: 1943~

Item Type: Photograph

[Steam engines retired at Chicago Passenger Station]

In the closing years of the "Glory Days of Steam" the Chicago and North Western Railway's work horses stand at track ends in the Chicago passenger station.

Date: 1946~

Item Type: Photograph

[Steam Locomotive entering Paris, Texas]

Texas and Pacific's train No. 31, westbound, headed by Engine No. 715, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, enroute from Texarkana to Fort worth over the railroad's Transcontinental Division, entering Paris, Texas.

Date: 1949

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["Sunbeam" locomotive in Dallas Union Terminal]

One of only three streamlined steam locomotives in regular service between Dallas and Houston Texas, the Southern Pacific No. 650, a class P-14 4-6-2 is being readied for its afternoon mile-a minute dash to Houston on the railroad's crack Sunbeam passenger run. Seen here at Dallas in 1948 after 11 years of service.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["The Sunshine Special" crossing the Trinity River Bridge]

Texas & Pacific's eastbound premier train The Sunshine Special rolls across the Trinity River near Dallas shortly before entering Union Terminal trackage with mostly headend cars double-headed with 4-6-2 No. 713 on the point in 1948.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["The Texan" entering Dallas]

Breathing just a wisp of smoke, the Texas and Pacific's "The Texan" train No. 15 westbound, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, pulls into the Dallas Union Terminal Station in 1948.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

[Texas and Pacfic train arriving in Dallas]

Texas and Pacific Railway's train No. 15, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving in Dallas in 1948.

Date: 1948

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["The Texas Eagle" southbound from St. Louis]

Photograph of Missouri Pacific's "Texas Eagle" train No. 1, southbound, passing through Carondelet Park in the suburbs of St. Louis enroute to Texas on a late summer afternoon in 1948.

Date: 1948

Item Type: Photograph

[The "Texas Rocket" arriving in Dallas]

Photograph of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad's "Texas Rocket" train arriving in Dallas in 1949. In addition to the engine, a number of cars are visible, on curved tracks.

Date: 1949

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

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[Missouri - Kansas - Texas train near Dallas]

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[Passengers boarding the "Twin Cities 400"]

["Pocono Express" at Binghamton, New York]

[Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails"]

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[Southern Pacific engine at the Cadiz St. Roundhouse in Dallas]

[Southern Pacific locomotive arriving in Dallas]

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["The Southerner" crossing the Trinity River in Texas]

["The Sportsman" in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]

["St. Louis Special" departing Chicago]

[Steam engines retired at Chicago Passenger Station]

[Steam Locomotive entering Paris, Texas]

["Sunbeam" locomotive in Dallas Union Terminal]

["The Sunshine Special" crossing the Trinity River Bridge]

["The Texan" entering Dallas]

[Texas and Pacfic train arriving in Dallas]

["The Texas Eagle" southbound from St. Louis]

[The "Texas Rocket" arriving in Dallas]