1941 General Highway Map of Bosque County, Texas

Official 1941 general highway map of Bosque County, Texas showing major state and county roads, streams and rivers, towns, and other landmarks.
Date: 1941
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Louisiana Daylight" passing L & A Junction]

Texas and Pacific's "The Louisiana Daylight", train No. 28, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 709, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive passes L & A Junction near Waskom, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cotton Belt motor train in Tyler, Texas]

Cotton Belt's motor train No. 401 powered by gas-electric motor car No. 16 arriving in Tyler, Texas.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Katy Flyer" near Waxahachie, Texas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Katy Flyer" train No. 6, northbound, headed by Engine No. 383, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, on an ascending grade near Waxahachie, Texas shortly after sunrise on an October morning in 1940.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Morning Star" departing Dallas]

Cotton Belt's "Morning Star" train No. 6, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 677, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute to Memphis, Tennessee.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Kansas Cityan" heads into Dallas]

Santa Fe's train No. 111, eastbound, enroute from Fort Worth over Texas and Pacific rails crosses the Trinity River bridge. This train, headed by Engine No. 1388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, is bringing "The Kansas Cityan" into Dallas.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Texas Special" leaving Dallas]

Rolling northward from the Dallas Union Station, the Katy's "Texas Special" train No. 2, headed by Engine No. 377, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, picks up speed enroute to St. Louis.
Date: January 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Texas Special" enroute to San Antonio]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad's train No. 1 "The Texas Special" southbound enroute to San Antonio in 1949.
Date: 1949
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas and Pacfic train arriving in Dallas]

Texas and Pacific Railway's train No. 15, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving in Dallas in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Missouri - Kansas - Texas train near Dallas]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad train No. 7 headed by Engine No. 381, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, near Dallas in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cotton Belt train in Dallas]

Lonestar Southwesten Railway train No. 1, a Cotton Belt train headed by Engine No. 679, a type 4-8-2 locomotive arriving in Dallas.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pacific train arriving in Dallas]

With the Sears building in the background and the Union Terminal Company's coach yard on its left The Hustler Train No. 15 rolls into Dallas in the early afternoon in 1949 behind one of Southern Pacific's handsome P-14 steam locomotives.
Date: 1949
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Texas Special" arriving at Highland Park Station]

Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Texas Special" train No. 2, northbound, headed by Engine No. 388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving at Highland Park station, enroute from the Dallas Union Station to St. Louis.
Date: December 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Texas Special" departing Austin]

Katy's "Texas Special" train No.1, southbound, headed by Engine No. 389, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, near the suburbs of Austin, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Texas Special" entering Dallas]

First run of the "Texas Special" Engine No. 101 enroute from San Antonio to St. Louis on April 21, 1948 as it enters Dallas at 2:00 pm.
Date: April 21, 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train at Gainesville, Texas depot]

Engine No. 306, an American type 4-4-0 locomotive, heads the Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's train No. 31 westbound, which is standing at Gainesville, Texas' depot enroute from Denison to Wichita Falls on June 23, 1940.
Date: June 23, 1940
Creator: Mizell, Charles M.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Westbound double-headed passenger train in Dallas]

Observe this unusual scene: One of the Texas and Pacific Railway's westbound passenger trains entering Dallas Union Terminal Station - double-headed by steam locomotives with Engine No. 715, a Pacific type 4-6-2, on the point. the time was 5:00 PM in the year 1949. This unusual photograph appears to depict a three-locomotive movement from the Cadiz St roundhouse to the station tracks at Union Terminal Co. The first engine is a T&P 4-6-2 No.715, the second most likely also a T&P locomotive, and the third is one of the Southern Pacific's streamlined 4-6-2 P-14s in Sunbeam service. The notes accompanying the photograph list the time as 5:00PM which is the exact time The Sunbeam is supposed to depart for Houston. It will certainly have to do some high stepping to beat the Sam Houston Zephyr into Houston this 1949 day.
Date: 1949
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Southerner" crossing the Trinity River in Texas]

One of the Texas and Pacific Railway's finest long-distance passenger consists, " The Southerner" train No. 8 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 908, a 900 class Mountain, type 4-8-2 locomotive, crossing the Trinity River Bridge, enroute from Fort Worth into Dallas.
Date: 1948~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Texan" entering Dallas]

Breathing just a wisp of smoke, the Texas and Pacific's "The Texan" train No. 15 westbound, headed by Engine No. 715, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, pulls into the Dallas Union Terminal Station in 1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Texas Zephyr" leaving Dallas]

Fort Worth and Denver (Burlington) Railway's "Texas Zephyr" train No. 2 northbound, headed by Engine No. 551, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, departing from Dallas enroute on its legendary journey via Fort Worth to Wichita Falls, Amarillo, Trinidad, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver. Spanning a period of more than sixty years, dating from the "Gay Nineties", this was the most popular rail route connecting Colorado and Texas points.
Date: 1948~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Yard at Dallas Union Station]

Observe this scene of activity in the Dallas Union Station's yards - the "Sam Houston Zephyr" has just entered the terminal, closely followed by the "Hustler" while the "Texas Zephyr" waits for its scheduled departure.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The "Katy Flyer" departing from Denison, Texas]

Missourri - Kansas - Texas (Katy) Railroad's oldest name train: the "Katy Flyer" train No. 6 northbound, headed by Engine No. 395, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive with a consist of eight standard heavyweight cars, departing from Denison, Texas enroute to St. Louis.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Locomotive rolls through Texas countyside]

Missouri Pacific Railway's train No. 32 southbound, headed by Engine No. 1158, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, with a consist of seven standard heavyweight cars - rolls through the Texas' countryside, approaching the Lone Star State's capital city of Austin.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Advent of the Streamliners]

This photograph portrays the dawn of a new era in railroading - advent of the streamliners in the late 1930s and early 1940s, plus modernization of the " Age of Steam" streamlining steam motive power. The splendor of Southern Pacific's "The Sunbeam" is shown. This train went into service between Dallas and Houston on September 15, 1937 - traversing the rail distance: 265 miles in 265 minutes. The consist of eight lightweight cars is headed by Engine No. 652, a Pacific type 4-6-2 streamlined steam locomotive with disc drivers, air horn and equipped with a Vanderbuilt tender (an oil burner).
Date: 1940~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History