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["The Humming Bird"]

"The Humming Bird" train No. 5, southbound, at depot in Birmingham, Alabama, enroute from Cincinnati to New Orleans, July 1954. Nashville-Montgomery mainline (Birmingham Division) trackage is in the foreground. Diesel locomotive No. 793 and second unit are E-7 type 2000 Horsepower EMD passenger locomotives purchased by Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1946.
Date: July 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0875.0430]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The bars went on in a hurry when 1st Lieut. William E. Martin, Oklahoma City, center, was promoted at Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., by Brig. Gen. Thomas K. Vincent, arsenal commander, left. His wife, Mrs. Mary Martin, is at right. The Martins are OKC natives, and he is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma."
Date: February 6, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History