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[Grand Central Terminal in New York City]

Photograph of Grand Central Terminal, New York, May 1943. Facing south on 42nd Street, the building sits squarely in the middle of Park Avenue and motor traffic goes around it by means of two elevated roadways running from 41st Street to 46th Street. The terminal has 123 tracks, 66 on the upper level and 57 on the lower. The upper level has 18.8 miles of track and the lower 14.9 miles making a total of 33.7 miles of railroad track in the terminal and its yard. There are 31 platform tracks o… more

Date: 1943

Creator: Nowak, Ed

Item Type: Photograph

[Cincinnati Union Station]

One of the nation's greatest railroad terminals, the Cincinnati Union Station, March 1933. This terminal was designed to accommodate, daily, 17,000 people and 216 trains (108 inbound and 108 outbound). This station has eight platforms serving 16 tracks. Each platform has length of 1,600 feet. This terminal represents a total investment in excess of forty-one million dollars.

Date: March 1933

Creator: Nowak, Ed

Item Type: Photograph

[Cleveland Union Station]

One of the most impressive railroad terminals in the United States is the Cleveland Union Station. The main entrance to the station is integral with the terminal group of buildings facing the Public Square. These buildings include the Hotel Cleveland, Medical Arts Builder's Exchange Building, Midland Bank Building, the Higbee Company's Department Store Building and the 52-story Terminal Tower.

Date: April 8, 1948

Creator: Nowak, Ed

Item Type: Photograph

[Burt C. Blanton and G. Robert Freeman, Jr. in Denison, Texas]

Burt C. Blanton and G. Robert Freeman, Jr. have just de-trained from a trip aboard the "Flying Scotsman" at the KATY Station in Denison, Texas on June 20, 1970.

Date: June 20, 1970

Creator: Hanlon, Pat

Item Type: Photograph

["The Flying Scotsman" leaving Dallas]

The famed English locomotive, London and North Eastern Railway's No 4472, "The Flying Scotsman" with its nine car consist leaving Dallas early on the morning of June 20, 1970. A southbound KATY freight train waits on the siding.

Date: June 20, 1970

Creator: Mizell, Charles M.

Item Type: Photograph

["Texas Chief" arriving at the Gainesville Depot]

Santa Fe's "Texas Chief" train No. 15, southbound, arriving at the Gainesville depot at 11:50 am on February 12, 1954.

Date: February 12, 1954

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["The Cyrus K. Holliday" near Dodge City, Kansas]

The Cyrus K. Holliday, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1880, is shown under steam for a special event on the Larned Branch of the Santa Fe Railway near Dodge City, Kansas, 1958.

Date: 1958

Item Type: Photograph

[Gainesville, Texas Depot]

Although many years have elapsed, the Santa Fe's Gainesville, Texas passenger station built in 1901 still retains a well preserved appearance in June of 1953. In reality, it has changed very little from those early days in 1901.

Date: June 1953

Item Type: Photograph

["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

["The Hustler" departing from Dallas]

Southern Pacific's " The Hustler" train No. 16, southbound, headed by Engine No. 629, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute to Houston.

Date: 1950

Creator: Plummer, Roger S.

Item Type: Photograph

["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

["L.S. Thorne" crossing the Mississippi]

Texas and Pacific Railway's train ferry "L.S. Thorne" crossing the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1938.

Date: 1938~

Item Type: Photograph

["Gouldsboro" ferry boat]

Texas and Pacific Railway's "Gouldsboro", a steam powered ferry boat, transports a passenger train across the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1938.

Date: 1938~

Item Type: Photograph

["Empire Builder" at Puget Sound]

Great Northern Railway's "Empire Builder" train No. 31, westbound, traverses the route along Puget Sound, nearing Seattle, 1929.

Date: 1929

Item Type: Photograph

["The Empire Builder" at St. Paul, Minnesota Depot]

Great Northern Railway's "The Empire Builder" train No. 1, westbound, headed by Engine No. 2517, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, at St. Paul Union Depot, 1929. This world renowned train was operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from Chicago to St. Paul and it was a Great Northern train from St. Paul to Portland, Seattle and Tacoma.

Date: 1929

Item Type: Photograph

["The Firefly" entering Kansas City]

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad's "The Firefly" train No. 14-32, northbound, headed by a mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, entering the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1925.

Date: 1925~

Item Type: Photograph

["Katy Flyer" near Waxahachie, Texas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Katy Flyer" train No. 6, northbound, headed by Engine No. 383, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, on an ascending grade near Waxahachie, Texas shortly after sunrise on an October morning in 1940.

Date: 1940

Item Type: Photograph

["Aztec Eagle" departing from Mexico City]

"The Aztec Eagle" train No. 1 northbound, modern streamlined passenger train of the National Railways of Mexico departing from Mexico City on the 802 mile run to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico located on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas. Circa 1960.

Date: 1960~

Item Type: Photograph

["Textile Special" brochure]

Brochure of the "Textile Special" which ran only once. It traversed a distance of about 1965 miles through the Lone Star State. As a sequence of the publicity engendered as new era of industrial development dawned in Texas.

Date: 1923

Item Type: Photograph

[Train between Mexico City and Guadalajara]

National Railway's train No. 9 westbound on the day-long run from Mexico City to Guadalajara, Mexico around 1955.

Date: 1955~

Item Type: Photograph

[Empty Ore Car in Mexico]

Porter Locomotive No. 4, type 0-6-4T heads an empty ore train, enroute from the smelter in Chihuahua City to the mines at Santa Eulalia, Mexico on the 30-inch gauge El Potosi Industrial and Chihuahua Railroad in June 1922. On the mountain side in the background are steel towers supporting an aerial tramway, which had recently been completed for transporting ore from the mine to a reduction mill.

Date: June 1922

Creator: Blanton, Bert C.

Item Type: Photograph

[Empalme engine terminal]

Photograph of several buildings and a smoke stack comprising the Southern Pacific shops and engine terminal. There are railroad tracks visible in the lower part of the image and an open, fenced field at left. Text in the lower-right portion says "R.R. shops Empalme, Mex. Foto Hopkins."

Date: June 1922

Creator: Hopkins

Item Type: Photograph

[Turntable at San Lazaro engine terminal]

Photograph of locomotive No. 67, a consolidation type 2-8-0, on the turntable in the San Lazaro engine terminal enroute from its roundhouse stall to servicing tracks. The "F.C. I." abbreviation on the tender is Ferro-carril Cuautla Y Ixtla" (Cuauta and Ixtla Railroad). In yesteryears this locomotive ran only on this 50-mile branch line. Soon it will head the National Railways of Mexico's narrow gauge passenger consist on the main line run from Mexico City via Cuauta to Puebla. This 3-foot ga… more

Date: June 1967

Creator: Peterson, Roland B.

Item Type: Photograph

[Passenger train crossing the Chinipas Bridge]

Chihuahua - Pacific Railway's transcontinental passenger train crossing one of 28 major bridges on the line between Chihuahua City and San Blas in Mexico. This is the Chinipas bridge, which is the highest, located at Kilometer 748. The height is 334.7 feet and the length is 958 feet. Circa 1965.

Date: 1965~

Item Type: Photograph

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[Grand Central Terminal in New York City]

[Cincinnati Union Station]

[Cleveland Union Station]

[Burt C. Blanton and G. Robert Freeman, Jr. in Denison, Texas]

["The Flying Scotsman" leaving Dallas]

["Texas Chief" arriving at the Gainesville Depot]

["The Cyrus K. Holliday" near Dodge City, Kansas]

[Gainesville, Texas Depot]

["Texas Chief" in Oklahoma]

["The Hustler" departing from Dallas]

["Texas Chief" leaving Dallas]

["L.S. Thorne" crossing the Mississippi]

["Gouldsboro" ferry boat]

["Empire Builder" at Puget Sound]

["The Empire Builder" at St. Paul, Minnesota Depot]

["The Firefly" entering Kansas City]

["Katy Flyer" near Waxahachie, Texas]

["Aztec Eagle" departing from Mexico City]

["Textile Special" brochure]

[Train between Mexico City and Guadalajara]

[Empty Ore Car in Mexico]

[Empalme engine terminal]

[Turntable at San Lazaro engine terminal]

[Passenger train crossing the Chinipas Bridge]