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[News Clip: Rail strike]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about a strike against six railroads by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Date: June 15, 1964
Duration: 3 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Depot at south rim of the Grand Canyon]

Description: Photograph of the rail side of a railway depot located at the terminus of the branch line at the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It is a wooden structure with log cabin-style architecture and "Grand Canyon" written in the gable end above the entryway. Several unidentified people are standing in front of the building and a truck is parked on the right side of the image.
Date: 1950~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[El Paso Train Station]

Description: Photograph of a railroad near a train station in El Paso, Texas. The station has a tall tower extending above it, and the railroad track has train cars on it.
Date: unknown
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Flag Raising at Train Depot]

Description: Copy print of a photograph taken during a flag raising ceremony at the Texas Santa Fe Railroad depot in Cleburne, Texas. The depot is a large, two-story brick building and the uniformed soldiers and others preparing to raise the flag are standing on a balcony platform at one end of the building. A crowd of people and automobiles are completely filling the street in front and to the side of the building. Additional historical information is printed on the back.
Date: April 10, 1917
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

Cushing Public Library and Old Railroad Depot

Description: Northward facing photograph of the Cushing Public Library, a former train depot for the Texas & New Orleans - Southern Pacific line. It is a rectangular, single-story building painted yellow with brown accents. In the center of the north side of the building, there is a small section extended outward, with a decorative roof element above. There is a ramp up to the platform, which wraps around the east side of the building.
Date: September 2, 2018
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries

Cushing Public Library and Old Railroad Depot

Description: Eastward facing photograph of the Cushing Public Library, a former train depot for the Texas & New Orleans - Southern Pacific line. It is a small, one-story building with a railed platform around the building and a ramp leading up to the doorway. It is painted yellow with brown accents, and has decorative scallops in the gable ends of the roof.
Date: September 2, 2018
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Six Flags]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of Six Flags Park, between Ft. Worth and Dallas, which is scheduled to open in August.
Date: April 4, 1961
Duration: 2 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Excursion party of the John H. Shary Land Company

Description: Panoramic photograph of a large group of people posing in front of the Sharyland train station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad; the train station later burned down. John Shary is labeled (third from the right). Also shows a dog with 10 legs - a product of the panoramic photo processing. Text at the bottom of the image says, "Excursion Party of the John H. Shary Land Co., Feb. 10, 1920." A label on the back of the photo says "Sharyland Mo Pac RR Station (later burned)"
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Eskildsen
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

Union Station in Downtown Paris

Description: Photograph of the 1912 Union Station located west of downtown Paris, Texas, taken from the back parking lot. The roof has a wide overhang with extra supports. The entrance to the Chamber of Commerce office is visible (a sign is hanging from the overhang in front of the door); bales of hay, scarecrows, and pumpkins are arranged outside the office as decoration. The Transportation Museum is in the far end of the building.
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Photograph of the Old Murphy Depot]

Description: Photograph of the Old Murphy Depot located in the back yard of 125 Ridgeview Drive in Murphy, Texas. There is a fence and several small trees in the foreground of the photograph and the building is one-story with small windows on the two visible sides.
Date: November 2010
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Postcard of a Cotton Blockade in a Railroad Yard]

Description: Postcard of a Cotton Blockade in a Houston Railroad Yard. Several parallel lines of track are packed full of trains and train cars loaded with bales of cotton. Several workers sit on the top of a bale of cotton on the right side of the frame. There are many buildings spread across the background on the right side of the frame.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of Grand Central Depot and Brazos Hotel]

Description: Postcard of the Grand Central Depot and the Brazos Hotel in Houston, Texas. The Brazos Hotel stands on the left side of the frame. In the middle of the frame, the side of the Grand Central Depot is visible. There is a large depot with trains and train cars on the right side of the frame. Handwritten text on the back of the card reads "10/29/08 Am sorry that I cannot have the pleasure of being by your side at the table to-night. Shirley." The card is addressed to Mr. John Forsgard of Waco, Texas. more
Date: October 29, 1908
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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