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[News Clip: Amtrack]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 30, 1979, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Lone Star Limited" at the Dallas Union Terminal]

Description: The St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway's "Lone Star Limited" train No. 11, westbound, headed by Engine No 677, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, at the Dallas Union Terminal Station. It has completed the run from Memphis, Tennessee. This was one of the finest passenger trains operating in the Southwest. t
Date: June 1951
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Pennsylvainia Limited" westbound]

Description: This scene became commonplace by 1929 - Pennsy passenger trains headed by famed K4s Pacifics on first-class passenger runs - because the Atlantics had been retired. In this view, "The Pennsylvania Limited" train No. 5 westbound, headed by a K4s Pacific, type 4-6-2 locomotive, Engine No. 5375 rolls on the high iron at more than a mile a minute with ten cars of standard varnish.
Date: 1930~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[News Script: Bloxom teaser]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a new Fort Worth passenger train terminal.
Date: March 22, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Byrdie Carswell - January 25, 1932]

Description: A letter written to "Mother" [Byrdie Carswell] from "Daddy" [T. N. Carswell], dated January 25, 1932. Carswell advises that he has arrived home on the Sunshine Special after a trip to Dallas, expresses his concern for his daughter, Peggy, having been ill, advises that he has changed his travel plans to Austin because of the rain and notes that he had a pleasant time in Hamlin.
Date: January 25, 1932
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Byrdie Carswell - February 16, 1932]

Description: A letter written to "Mother" [Byrdie Carswell] from "Daddy" [T. N. Carswell], dated February 16, 1932. Carswell advises of a Washington's birthday special rate available from San Antonio to Tuscola and return for $7.95, hoping she and Peggy Anne would arrange to leave Friday night for the long weekend. In a handwritten postscript he suggests a possibility of the same rate via Dallas or Ft. Worth.
Date: February 16, 1932
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[The "Doodle Bug" Interior]

Description: This photograph illustrates the interior of a McKeen motor car, known locally as a "Doodle Bug", with its dust-proof round windows. This one, owned by the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway, was an 81-passenger, 70-foot-long, 200-horsepower, gasoline-powered, motor coach. It traveled from Graford through Oran and Salesville to Mineral Wells, thence on to Dallas. It made a round trip daily from 1912 to 1929. A turntable at Graford turned the coaches around. There were two … more
Date: 1911/1935
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[News Script: RR strike]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the second railroad strike in 6 months after the walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen.
Date: May 17, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rail strike]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the rail strike and is effects on transportation in Texas.
Date: May 17, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Railpax]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about new passenger trains with service from Laredo to Dallas-Fort Worth.
Date: May 18, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: RAILPAX]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6 P.M.
Date: March 22, 1971
Duration: 2 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trains]

Description: B-roll video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 22, 1971
Duration: 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the start of the Amtrak passenger train service from Dallas to Houston.
Date: April 10, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Transportation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of estimation of using more of passenger trains by Christmas travelers due to energy shortages.
Date: December 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrack]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Amtrak service from Chicago to houston which will by pass Dallas at least temporarily.
Date: June 8, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Amtrak which has been approved passenger train service to Dallas.
Date: February 4, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story AMTRAK officials in Washington which announced that they have delayed indefinitely the sought after passenger train service through Dallas .
Date: July 2, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about first passenger train into years which pulled into the Union station in Dallas about thirty minutes late.
Date: March 14, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sleeping-Car

Description: Patent for a combined train car that can "be adapted for day use a parlor or chair car, and may be readily converted into a sleeping-car with independent state-rooms, thus insuring privacy and comfort to passengers" (lines 16-20) thus saving achieving maximum efficiency of space.
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Tull, Shalis Francis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railroad Motor-Car

Description: Patent for railroad motor-car. The invention is "constructed that they can be knocked down to be loaded on passenger trains" (lines 11-13). Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Reynolds, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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