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"Houston and Galveston Railroad"

"Houston and Galveston Railroad"

From Harper's Weekly
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WWH: Railroad History] (open access)

[WWH: Railroad History]

Text about railroad museums across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a May 1994 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1994-05~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Railroad-Rail. (open access)

Railroad-Rail.

Patent for an improved railroad rail that is "composed of track or running rails proper and supplementary rails bolted to the track rails and having a laterally-projecting top portion which serves as a wheel guard or lateral brace for the track rails" (lines 14-19).
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Keenan, Michael J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing. (open access)

Railroad-Crossing.

Patent for a simple and durable railroad-crossing that "consists of a center piece, and two side pieces for clamping the main track rails in place" (lines 12-14). It can be easily set up and connected with the rails.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Keenan, Michael J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Rail Joint. (open access)

Railroad-Rail Joint.

Patent for new and useful improvements in railroad rail joints, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1900
Creator: Hopping, Samuel Miller
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Weed-Burner (open access)

Railroad Weed-Burner

Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Hancock, Geroge A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston County

Galveston County

Map of the Gulf Coast region covering Galveston County, Texas. The map shows the location of a lighthouse on Bolivar Point. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1883
Creator: Schmidt, V.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Switch. (open access)

Railroad Switch.

Patent for a new and improved railroad switch. This design "consists in securing the short switch-rail to a long guard-rail, instead of pivoting it to the end of the sliding-rail or supporting-plate, the said guard-rail having the end remote from the short switch-rail spiked securely to the track, and the end carrying the switch-rail provided with lever or other moving devices whereby the switch-rails are thrown" (lines 21-29).
Date: January 15, 1884
Creator: Crowley, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie (open access)

Railroad Tie

Patent for a railroad tie. This invention is made of concrete and allows rails to be attached without the need of spikes. Illustration included.
Date: July 25, 1905
Creator: Percival, Herbert E. & Key, Brewer W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotion: Romancing the rails at Texas train museums, or Two Longs and a Short: Highballin' it through Texas train museums!, or Two Longs and a Short: Museums toot the whistle of railroading's colorful past. (open access)

Locomotion: Romancing the rails at Texas train museums, or Two Longs and a Short: Highballin' it through Texas train museums!, or Two Longs and a Short: Museums toot the whistle of railroading's colorful past.

Draft of an article about train museums across Texas that was published in the February 2001 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lumber Door for Railroad Box Cars (open access)

Lumber Door for Railroad Box Cars

Patent for lumber door on railroad box cars.
Date: December 6, 1882
Creator: Nichols, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Switch. (open access)

Railroad Switch.

Patent for a new and improved railroad switch. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and safe switch adapted for operation by trip-bars on a locomotive engine or car to open or close the switch, and without injury to the rails or actuating mechanism of the switch or danger of derailing the cars" (lines 7-14).
Date: February 21, 1888
Creator: Peetz, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 4]

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 4]

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 4 pulling a Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway freight car, a TSE caboose, and twelve cars of pine logs. Ed Baucum is the engineer. Engine 4 was a Baldwin 4-6-0 steam locomotive that the TSE purchased in March 1904 from the Ragley Lumber Company for $3,500. It was sold to the Lufkin, Hemphill and Gulf Railway in November 1921. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chair for Railroad Rails. (open access)

Chair for Railroad Rails.

Patent for a new and improved chair for railroad rails. This design utilizes a metal key and wrought-iron straps so that "the rails are held firmly both laterally and vertically, so that they are kept level at the joint and any sagging is prevented. At the same time endwise movement by expansion or contraction is not hindered, and the chairs being fastened to the ties, the expansion and contraction will take place entirely between the several chairs" (lines 49-57).
Date: February 20, 1883
Creator: Armstrong, Charles & Abbott, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Railroad museum resources] (open access)

[Railroad museum resources]

Resource list for an article about railroad museums across Texas that was published in the February 2001 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reinforcement For Concrete Railroad Ties (open access)

Reinforcement For Concrete Railroad Ties

Patent for railroad ties reinforced by concrete. Illustrations included.
Date: May 8, 1906
Creator: Percival, Herbert E. & Key, Brewer W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company to I. H. Kempner, November 1, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company to I. H. Kempner, November 1, 1949]

Letter from Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company to I. H. Kempner inviting him to a luncheon for the Galveston Board of Directors.
Date: November 1, 1949
Creator: Morfa, R. J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remembering railroads (open access)

Remembering railroads

Text about railroad museums across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a February 2001 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 2001-02~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Circular Railroad or Round About. (open access)

Circular Railroad or Round About.

Patent for novel improvements on circular railroads, and also to means for propelling a turn-table on which the carriages are secured.
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Sturm, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A ruined railroad car after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

[A ruined railroad car after the 1947 Texas City Disaster]

This image shows a close-up view of a damaged freight car sitting on railroad tracks. The right half of the car is crushed in. The railroad tracks and the surrounding area are strewn with debris. On the right, in the distance, another freight car can be seen on parallel tracks.
Date: April 16, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. O. Wood, June 11, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. O. Wood, June 11, 1955]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to E. O. Wood discussing railroad rates.
Date: June 11, 1955
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad (open access)

Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad

Schedule for trains from Galveston, Texas, to Purcell, Okla., July 1887. Towns and small stations on the route, along with arrival times, are included. Executives of the railroad, and others in positions of responsibility, are named on the documen. 1 page, typed, carbon copy
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from the Galveston Chamber of Commerce to H. Kempner, December 28, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from the Galveston Chamber of Commerce to H. Kempner, December 28, 1951]

Letter from the Galveston Chamber of Commerce to H. Kempner discussing the carload rates that have been authorized by the Railroad Commission of Texas.
Date: December 28, 1951
Creator: Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harris County

Harris County

Map of the Gulf Coast region covering Harris County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History