The author - Burt C. Blanton - stands on the open platform of the Clinchfield Railroad's Office Car No. 100, which is located on a siding adjacent to the passenger depot at Erwin, Tennessee. The time is noon, Sunday, June 10, 1979. This was a modern car with a complement of conventional equipment. The exterior was painted dark green. The cars letterboard bore the name "Clinchfield" plus the number 100 positioned on either side, centered below the windows, all in gold leaf. There was a gold stripe near the car's base, running along each side and across the rear-end platform. Office Car No. 100 was formerly an Atlantic Coast Lines dining car bearing the name "Orlando" and the car was rebuilt in the Clinchfield's Erwin Shops.

A survivor of the "Glory Days of Steam" - the author: Burt C. Blanton - momentarily delays departure of the Clinchfield Railroad's special excursion train wich is standing at the Marion, North Carolina Depot; scheduled to leave at 9:00 am on Sunday morning, June 10, 1979. The train is headed by the Clinchfield's passenger locomotives, No. 200, type FP-7A, and No. 800, type F-7A. The consist was eight cars. The train's route was in a northerly direction from Marion to Erwin, Tennessee - a rail distance of 82.3 miles. The Clinchfield Railroad is a typical mountain line (standard gauge) - 275 miles in length - completed on February 9, 1915, at an average cost of $201,000 per mile. It's rails traverse a portion of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the railroad crosses the Eastern Transcontinental Divide in the Blue Ridge Tunnel which has a length of 1,865 feet. There are 55 tunnels on the route, ranging from 154 to 7,865 feet. This excellent short line railroad extends from the southern terminus, Spartanburg, South Carolina, via Marion, North Carolina to Erwin, Tennessee; and thence to the northern terminus at Elkhorn City, Kentucky.

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.

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.

A group of boys smile at the camera while sitting a table on school outing.

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 gauge railroad system is one of the oldest in the Republic. It traverses one of the most picturesque routes in Mexico.

A scene from a play, Cecil Hill's A.C.T. [Austin Civic Theater] group

A scene from the play "Tom Sawyer" put on by Austin Civic Theater. Randall Craig on the left as Tom, center is Marylyn Germind as Beckie Thacher, and on the right is Steven Foster as Huck Finn.

Side interior shot of studio with lamp parring above table

Camera set-up shot

Office door of Lester Pope and Mike Lorfing at Neal Douglass photography studio

Interior shot of office inside the studio

Shot of lamp equipment above desks on right hand side of the studio, looking at corner with trash can

Exterior shot of First City National Bank, Congress Av. & 9th St. Clock in view would ring a bell every hour.

Photograph of Santa Fe's "The Chief" passing "Sullivan's Curve" in rugged Cajon Pass, California, June 1964.

Aerial shot of downtown Austin, Inter-Regional Hwy in bottom foreground, Colorado River in the lefthand background and State Capitol on front far right

Aerial shot of downtown Austin with Inter-Regional in mid-foreground with Capitol in middle

Photograph of E.L. Reid at a casino party. Reid is shown wearing a hat and playing a game.

Signed photograph of Jack Brooks (center), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 2nd congressional district. He stands between two men in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

Photograph of Kate Blau kneeling and feeding a small deer. In the background is grass, a fence, and a house. Typed on the top border is the date, " JUN 60"

Shot of Squibb advertisement in White's Pharmacy, 523 Congress Ave.

Photograph of a group of men and two clergymen at a St. Edward's University retreat. The photographer wrote the name "Horace Spiller" on the envelope of the negative.

Photograph of a group of men and two clergymen at a St. Edward's University retreat. The photographer wrote the name "Horace Spiller" on the envelope of the negative.

A group of men gathered on the steps of a church. Two clergymen stand at the front of the group.