Gruess aus Texas! [I lived and worked for a German company, Siemens, in Munich from 1986-88.] From what I've managed to piece together, T&P 638 was not fenced off soon enough and not supervised properly by the State Fair management after its donation. I don't think anything major was removed exc...

The description for this classic photograph suggests this train is the Houston and Texas Central's version of the Dallas Morning News train called the "Comet." It's not! http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/bel/id/71/rec/39 It's actually the T&P Dallas Morning Ne...

This website provides schedules and train consists for the various sections of the Texas Eagle:
http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/con ... 95212.html

You can follow the Track 9 link back to other trains in the Southwest as well.

Thanks to the Permian Genealogical Society, we have these early views of the T&P depot in Odessa TX: http://permiangen.com/odsahist/depot1a.htm Find the link on that page to the photo of the last depot in Odessa: http://permiangen.com/odsahist/depot3.htm I think the date of 1962 for the last pas...

Here's a rare shot of a T&P depot up on the Trans-Continental line:
http://dmc.tamu-commerce.edu/cdm/single ... /866/rec/2

It's not often you see photos of structures on this line except for Paris and Bonham.

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Interesting old photograph here of an accident near Jefferson TX in June 1903:
http://dmc.tamu-commerce.edu/cdm/single ... /96/rec/63

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This note from the State Archives is thought to be a letter about one of the Sam Bass Gang train robberies:
https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/ra ... bbery.html

A popular way for railroads to advertise around 1900 was to publish song sheets for catchy tunes. Here's one T&P published called "Texas, Where the Mockin' Bird is Singin'" : http://dmc.tamu-commerce.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mineolahm/id/290/rec/110 Note the endsheet has that ...

This weekend at the North Texas Book & Paper Show in Grapevine TX, I saw an old advertisement for a special train from Palestine to Dallas. The route was Palestine-Jacksonville-Tyler-Lindale-Mineola-Dallas via the I&GN and T&P. Passengers arrived directly at the fairgrounds. The special ...

Here's a rare shot on the Transcontinental Division circa 1949:
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/ ... q=railroad

It's not often one sees actual train photos on this T&P line.