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[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

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Pere Marquette" in Michigan]

Chesapeake and Ohio's "Pere Marquette" enroute through the Michigan countryside on its run to Detroit, crossing Thornapple Bridge.

Date: 1958~

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 42.877890 -85.476487

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Train on the bridge from Rio Jamapa at Tomatlán]

Passenger train on the bridge from Rio Jamapa at Tomatlán and is part of the 2ft gauge line of the Ferrocarril Mexicano. This narrow-gauge train, headed by a Consolidation type 2-8-0 Baldwin No. 1 steam locomotive with a diverse consist, carried a Broiler-buffet Sleeping car on the rear-end which provided meal service for Pullman passengers.

Date: September 1920

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Union Pacific Bridge, Omaha, Nebraska]

Color postcard of the Union Pacific Bridge in Omaha, Nebraska. A large trestle bridge crosses the Missouri River. Postmarked in Omaha on Sep 20 1907.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[Photograph of a timber train trestle]

Photograph of a wooden train trestle crossing a shallow body of water. The reflection of the bridge's wooden supports is visible in the water below. Some small leafless trees grow in the foreground and a densely wooded area stands in the background.

Date: 195X

Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Trestle collapse]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Colin county trestle of a railroad giving way resulting in a train car full of sulfuric acid being derailed.

Date: May 28, 1957

Duration: 49 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections