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[Photograph of a grain elevator in Fort Worth]

Description: Photograph of a tall grain elevator at a grain processing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. A sign mounted on the top of the structure reads, "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR." "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR" is also painted on the side of the facility in tall lettering. Railroad tracks run along the side of the structure. A field of tall grass stretches out across the foreground.
Date: 195X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of the Light Crust Flour grain elevator]

Description: Photograph of a tall grain elevator at a grain processing and storage facility in Fort Worth, Texas. A sign mounted on the top of the structure reads, "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR." "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR" is also painted on the side of the facility in tall lettering. Railroad tracks run along the side of the structure. A field of tall grass stretches out across the foreground.
Date: 195X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: House struck by train, splintered]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a train hitting a house at a railroad crossing as it was being moved to a new location on the back of a truck. The house was reduced to splinters, but no one was seriously injured.
Date: July 24, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a train at an empty train station]

Description: Photograph looking down a covered platform at an empty train station in Fort Worth, Texas. Metal beams supporting bright lights run down the center of the platform and fade into the distance. Two sets of parallel tracks run along either side of the wooden platform. On the far left, a train sits on a set of tracks on the other side of a second platform. On the right, lights shine from a structure and a train car is partially visible sitting on the tracks.
Date: [1937..1939]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of the side of a grain elevator]

Description: Photograph of a tall grain elevator at a grain processing and storage facility in Fort Worth, Texas. "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR" appears to be painted across the side of the facility in large lettering. Railroad tracks run along the side of the structure.
Date: 195X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a grain elevator]

Description: Photograph of a tall grain elevator at a grain processing and storage facility in Fort Worth, Texas. A sign mounted on the top of the structure reads, "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR." "LIGHT CRUST FLOUR" is also painted on the side of the facility in tall lettering. Railroad tracks run along the side of the structure. A field of tall grass stretches out across the foreground.
Date: 195X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of a train in Fort Worth]

Description: Photograph of a train on the tracks in Fort Worth, Texas. The train sits on one of the several parallel train tracks that are situated in the foreground. The number "477" is painted onto the back of the caboose. A man stands to the side of the train and looks on with his hands on his hips. He wears a white, long-sleeved shirt and dark pants. Several automobiles are parked on the other side of the tracks, on the left. The city skyline stands in the background. Some of the distant buildings have … more
Date: 193X
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The back of the Ashton Depot]

Description: Photograph of the back of Ashton Depot, located at 1501 Jones Street in Fort Worth. Formerly known as both Santa Fe Depot and Fort Worth Union Depot, this building is made of brick. Between the camera and the building are a set of train tracks, a metal fence, and a shorter section of a more run-down building. The depot has arched windows.
Date: 1983
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.749163 -97.324105
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Railroad]

Description: B-roll video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about maintenance to Arlington's railroads and crossings.
Date: January 3, 1973
Duration: 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Railway-Crossing.

Description: Patent for a railway crossing, which provides track treads for trains at heavily used crossings.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Gallaspy, Benjamin E. & McCarty, Alexander H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Crossing.

Description: Patent for a railway crossing, which is simpler to build and maintain and more durable than previous railway crossing connections.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Hosmer, Arthur
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Elevated Railway, &c

Description: Patent for improvements "to provide an improved track having provisions for readily tightening the track, each span or section being tightened by means of a single tightening device arranged, preferably. . . second, to provide an improved truck with guiding rollers or pulleys, the weight of the truck being carried upon yielding supports; third, a simple and improved swivel or turning device or connection between the car and track, whereby the turning of curves is more easily accomplished with a… more
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M. & Taylor, James P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway-Track Lifting-Jack

Description: Patent for "an improved device of this character which is designed for heavy work, as in railway service, and at the same time to have the device comparatively light in weight in order that it may be conveniently carried from place to place" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Bentley, George Francis
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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