The rush is on at the depot! The crowd has either enjoyed the local mineral waters or setting their sights on doing so soon.
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/ ... q=railroad
Read the note about the pole "spotters."
Click on the photo to magnify it.
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- Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:50 pm
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Mineral Wells depot with crowd
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- Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:45 pm
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Ranger TX depot
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Ranger TX depot
Here's a shot of the depot with a crowd but not the usual oil boom crowd you often see in photos of Ranger:
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/ ... q=railroad
Click on photo to magnify it if it's not already magnified.
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/ ... q=railroad
Click on photo to magnify it if it's not already magnified.
- Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:22 pm
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: WMW&NW freight train
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WMW&NW freight train
Here's a shot of a short freight pulled by locomotive No. 5:
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/ ... q=railroad
Click on the photo to enlarge it.
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/ ... q=railroad
Click on the photo to enlarge it.
- Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:17 pm
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Abilene's T&P depot--evening view
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Abilene's T&P depot--evening view
Nice shot from the Hardin-Simmons University Library photo collection:
http://wtda.alc.org/imagezoomview/bitst ... sequence=1
http://wtda.alc.org/imagezoomview/bitst ... sequence=1
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:28 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: New Orleans' T&P-MP station
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New Orleans' T&P-MP station
This link will take you to a photo of the depot on Annunciation built in 1916:
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/chooc ... nck120.jpg
Pretty impressive! New Orleans had four other major depots before NOUPT was competed in 1954 consolidating all the passenger operations.
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/chooc ... nck120.jpg
Pretty impressive! New Orleans had four other major depots before NOUPT was competed in 1954 consolidating all the passenger operations.
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:15 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Shreveport T&P depots--both of them
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Shreveport T&P depots--both of them
Here's the last one used by the T&P, built in the 1960s: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/rwy&CISOPTR=15&CISOBOX=1&REC=10 The previous one was an Art Deco-style one from the 1930s that was just demolished in the last 10-15 years: http://digitalcollecti...
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P 1892 public timetable online
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T&P 1892 public timetable online
You can magnify and rotate sections of this using the feature bar at the top:
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/ ... OX=1&REC=2
The style of it looks very Missouri Pacific like!
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/ ... OX=1&REC=2
The style of it looks very Missouri Pacific like!
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:54 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: "Ox-Team to Eagles" online
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"Ox-Team to Eagles" online
Here's a link to the classic corporate history booklet issued by the T&P in the 1940s:
http://www.ttarchive.com/Library/Articl ... agles.html
http://www.ttarchive.com/Library/Articl ... agles.html
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:33 pm
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Natchitoches T&P depot
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Natchitoches T&P depot
The Cane River National Historical Area has a write-up on the existing T&P depot of remarkable architecture:
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/caneriver/tex.htm
Hope it is saved!
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/caneriver/tex.htm
Hope it is saved!
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:25 pm
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P depots in La. photo collection
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T&P depots in La. photo collection
The State Library of Louisiana has a collection of 17 digitized photographs of T&P depots and railroad scenes online. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=Texas.&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP2=all&CISOBOX2=railroad+stations&CISOFIELD2=subj...