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[White Rock Station in Dallas]

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's White Rock Station in Dallas.

Date: 1956~

Creator: Monaghan, M.D.

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Steam Switcher at Dallas' Union Terminal]

Dallas Union Terminal Company's No. 7, type 0-6-0 steam switcher, adjacent to the south end of Union Terminal on January 8, 1956.

Date: January 8, 1956

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Sam Houston Zephyr" arriving in Dallas]

Burlington's "Sam Houston Zephyr" train No. 4, headed by Engine No. 9950, a 2250 H.P. electro-motive diesel locomotive arriving in Dallas.

Date: January 8, 1956

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Photograph of "Sunset Limited" Crossing the Rio Grande]

Photograph of Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" train No. 2, eastbound, with a consist of fourteen cars, crossing the Rio Grande Bridge as it nears El Paso, Texas.

Date: 1956~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

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

Chesapeake and Ohio's " The Sportsman" at the station in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Date: 1956~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Pan American"]

Louisville and Nashville's "The Pan American" train No. 99, southbound, rolls through Kentucky enroute fron Cincinnati to Louisville. Spring 1956.

Date: 1956

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Dining car on Santa Fe's "Texas Chief"]

Dinner being served in the dining car of the Santa Fe's "Texas Chief" train No. 15, southbound, enroute from Chicago to Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Houston.

Date: 1956~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Lounge Car on the "Texas Chief"]

Passengers, both young and old are enjoying the comfort of the lounge car in the consist of the Santa Fe's "Texas Chief" train No. 15, southbound, enroute from Chicago to Texas.

Date: 1956~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[The "Queen's Own" in Paso del Macho Yards]

Electric locomotive of the former Mexican Railway, the "Queen's Own" in the Paso del Macho yards around 1956. This railroad has operated under catenary from Paso del Macho to Esperanza since 1928. It is the only section of the National Railways of Mexico which is electrified. On this railroad you travel over one of the most spectacular rail routes on the North American continent. In the background looms the Cumbres de Maltrata range where a 4.5 per cent gradient must be traversed.

Date: 1956~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Texas Chief" leaving Dallas]

The Dallas section of the "Texas Chief" train No. 116, northbound, departing from Dallas on the afternoon of January 8, 1956.

Date: January 8, 1956

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Texas Chief" in Oklahoma]

Winding through the rugged countryside near Washita Canyon in Oklahoma, the Santa Fe's "Texas Chief" powered by four diesel units and a consist of eleven cars, rolls southward towards Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, and Galveston, Texas, circa 1956.

Date: 1956

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Dedication of the Elkhart High School]

Photo taken the day of the dedication of the Elkhart High School. Left to Right: Co. Supt. R.H. Johnson Elkhart Principal, Mr. O'Quinn Elkhart Supt. W.J. Jentry Speaker Bonner Frizzell Mrs. Bonner Frizzell

Date: 1956~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission

Remington Rand Shaver Div.

Wide shot of Gulf Gas Station

Date: February 15, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Texas Bus Lines

Wide shot photograph of a large group of people standing in a line on the street in front of three Texas Bus Lines buses. They are at the intersection of San Jacinto and 24th streets, in front of the Texas Natural History Museum at the University of Texas campus. A sculpture with several horses and a staircase leading up to the stone building are visible behind them.

Date: March 20, 1956

Creator: Douglass, Neal

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.287113 -97.733849

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library