Beaver, Meade & Englewood (BM&E) Caboose #20

A photograph print showing the Beaver, Meade & Englewood side-door caboose at Forgan, OK. The BM&E built from Beaver to Forgan in 1915 and west from there to Keyes between 1925 and 1931, a total of 105 miles. The Katy gained control of the BM&E through stock ownership in 1931. Now abandoned [1940].
Date: August 18, 1940
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Buschow Lumber Co. Derelict

A photograph print showing a Buschow Lumber Company derelict narrow gauge shay locomotive (Lima Locomotive Works #828), "Rapides Lbr. Co., Inc." and No. 5 on tender, Stapp, OK.
Date: August 1935
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Buschow Lumber Co. Derelicts

A photograph print showing a pair of Buschow Lumber Company derelict narrow gauge shay locomotives, front engine is a Lima Locomotive Works #2051, rear engine is a P.G. #523, Stapp, OK.
Date: August 1935
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 528

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 528, diesel-electric switcher (class S-50), Shawnee, OK.
Date: August 21, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 836

A photograph print of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 836, 4-6-2 (Alco/Schenectady class P32), on a passenger train, Shawnee, OK.
Date: August 2, 1936
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 847

A photograph print of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 847, 4-6-2 (Alco/Schenectady class P32), on a passenger train, Shawnee, OK. [Developed at Houstin Payne photography, 120-1/2 Broadway, Shawnee, OK]
Date: August 2, 1936
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 858

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 858,4-6-2, (Alco/Schenectady, class P-32), on a passenger train, Shawnee, OK.
Date: August 21, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 2129

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 2129, 2-8-0 (Class C-43), Des Moines, IA.
Date: August 25, 1939
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 3011

A photograph print of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 3011, 2-10-2 (Alco, class N78), Shawnee, OK.
Date: August 3, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 4045

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 4045, 4-8-2, Enid, OK.
Date: August 18, 1938
Creator: Graves, Ralph L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 4052

A photograph print of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 4052, 4-8-2 (BLW, class 4000), on a freight train, So. Shawnee, OK. "The first engine cab I ever was in was on this engine, in the roundhouse, the night before this picture was taken." [Developed at Houstin Payne photography, 120-1/2 Broadway, Shawnee, OK]
Date: August 9, 1936
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) Streamilner 606

A photograph print showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) Rocket 606, streamlined diesel-electric on passenger train. Oklahoma City, OK, station. "Coaches have fluted sides, Bill and Carol Gerbracht posing in front of loco". [see also 2008.008.5547 & 6548]
Date: August 28, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4

A photograph print showing Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4, 4-4-0, on a passenger train, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: August 22, 1938
Creator: Krambeck, F. J. Wesley
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4

A photograph print showing Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4, 4-4-0, on a passenger train, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: August 28, 1938
Creator: Krambeck, F. J. Wesley
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4

A photograph print showing Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4, 4-4-0, "on Train No. 1, at M-K-T depot in Oklahoma City, just arrived from Fort Smith, Ark. 2 cars, an RPO-express and a coach leased from Mo. Pacific. This train replaced a mixed train that operated for about 7 years previously. These passenger trains ran for only a few months in summer and fall of 1938. Their cost helped shove the road over the brink of insolvency. The FS&W quit operations in Jan. 1939."
Date: August 28, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #25

A photograph postcard showing the wrecked Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #25, 2-8-2 (BLW), at the crash site 1 mile east of Meridian, MS.
Date: August 24, 1938
Creator: Wood, Sylvan R.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) 31

A photograph print showing the Fort Smith & Western (FSW) 31, 4-8-0, in front of boiler shop, Fort Smith, AR. (Ex: BR&P) [note FS&W 5751 gondola on left]
Date: August 20, 1923
Creator: Winters, Charles E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) 31

A photograph print showing the Fort Smith & Western (FSW) 31, 4-8-0, Fort Smith, AR. "Workmen ready to put numbers on smokebox front and sandbox."
Date: August 20, 1923
Creator: Winters, Charles E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) RPO 4

A photograph print showing Fort Smith & Western (FSW) RPO #4, (Railway Post Office) express baggage coach, metal sided, passenger coach rented from MoPac, Oklahoma City. [electric lights over doors for use on dark station platforms].
Date: August 1938
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ft. Smith & Western (FSW) Mail Car #4

A photograph print showing Ft. Smith & Western (FSW) mail car #4, on Passenger Train No. 1, next to Mo. Pac. Chair car, at Katy Station, Oklahoma City, OK. [Photo shows car No. 4, on Railway Post Office Express baggage car with lights over doors for dark station platforms. Also shown is a chair car/coach rented from Missouri Pacific Railroad.]
Date: August 7, 1938
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kansas City Southern 25 on "Southern Belle"

A photograph postcard showing the Kansas City Southern (KCS), 25, single unit diesel, on No. 2, "Southern Belle, coming downgrade east of Page, OK. 7 cars, 55 mph. Black Fork Mountain in background.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kansas City Southern (KCS) 532 & 757

A photograph postcard showing the Kansas City Southern (KCS), 532, 2-8-0, and 757, 2-8-8-0, climbing grade north of Page, OK, with a 73-car southbound drag freight, 10 mph.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kansas City Southern (KCS) 532 & 757

A photograph postcard showing the Kansas City Southern (KCS), 532, 2-8-0, and 757, 2-8-8-0, climbing grade north of Page, OK, with a 73-car southbound drag freight, 10 mph.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kansas City Southern (KCS) 808 & 905

A photograph postcard showing the Kansas City Southern (KCS), 808, 4-6-2, and 905, 2-10-4, coming downgrade east of Page, OK, with northbound drag freight, 62 cars, 45 mph. Black Fork Mountain left, Rich Mountain right.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: George, Preston
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History