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["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

Description: Rock Island's " Twin Star Rocket" train No. 17, southbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 677, enroute from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Houston, leaves Dallas on the last portion of its run in 1951. This was one of the finest streamliners operating in the nation. Its route from the Twin Cities of the north to the Texas' metropolis adjacent to the Gulf covered a rail distance of 1,363 miles.
Date: 1951
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

Description: Rock Island Train No.17, the southbound Twin Star Rocket headed by No.652 a 2250 HP Electromotive E8 and a 2000 HP E7 approach Tower 19 on July 14, 1952.
Date: July 14, 1952
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Twin Star Rocket" departing from Dallas]

Description: Burlington-Rock Island's "Twin Star Rocket" races southward out of Dallas in 1951 powered by 1500HP FP7A No.677 and a 1500HP "B"unit in an effort to beat the Southern Pacific's Hustler into Houston.
Date: 1951
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Two trains at Dallas' Union Station]

Description: At left, Fort Worth and Denver Railway's "Texas Zephyr" train No. 2, northbound, is ready to depart fron the Dallas Union Station. At right, the "Sam Houston Zephyr" train No. 4, northbound is just arriving in the terminal from Houston.
Date: 1955~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Watercolor]

Description: This is a watercolor depicting a two story four square home. The sidewalk and yard also appear in the painting. A handwritten note on the back explains that this house was built just north of Louise Roll's house. It burned in 1945.
Date: 1909
Creator: Louise Roll
Partner: Old City Park

[White Rock Station in Dallas]

Description: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's White Rock Station in Dallas.
Date: 1956~
Creator: Monaghan, M.D.
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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