Frisco's "The Black Gold" train No. 517, southbound, headed by Engine No. 1039, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving in Dallas from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

It's a typical summer day in Texas and the year is 1950. The Katy's "The Bluebonnet" train No. 7 southbound, headed by a beautiful Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, with a consist of eight standard heavyweight passenger cars - departs from Dallas on its lengthy run to San Antonio.

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad's train No. 7, "The Bluebonnet", headed by Engine No. 392, a type 4-6-2 locomotive in Dallas in 1950.

St. Louis and Southwestern Railway's Cotton Belt train No. 1, headed by Engine No. 678, a type 4-8-2 locomotive, rolls through Dallas.

Fort Worth and Denver's "Denver Zephyr" train No. 4, heading north out of Dallas Union Terminal Station enroute to Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Amarillo, and Denver.

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad's train No. 6, "The Katy Flyer" headed by Engine No. 391, a type 4-6-2 locomotive near Garland, Texas.

Photograph of "The Grand Canyon State" Southern Pacific's train No. 44 headed by a streamlined mighty Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive, Engine No. 4443 - departing from the Tucson, Arizona Station.

Texas and Pacific's "Louisiana Limited" train No. 2-22, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 702, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, leaving Fort Worth on a summer afternoon at sundown.

Texas an Pacific Railway's "Louisiana Limited" Engine No. 702, type 4-6-2 locomotive, leaving Fort Worth, Texas at dusk in 1950.

Photograph of the front side and main entrance to the St. Louis Union Station. The building has an eclectic architectural style.

St. Louis Southwestern Railway's train No. 6, the "Morning Star", headed by Engine No. 676, a Cotton Belt type 4-8-2 locomotive rolling through Dallas.

"The Powhatan Arrow" famous modern steam-powered streamliner of the Norfolk and Western Railway, traverses a region of scenic beauty through the mountains of Virginia.

Southern Pacific Engine No. 651, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, on the turntable at the Cadiz St. Roundhouse in Dallas, Texas.

Southern Pacific Railroad's train No. 15, headed by Engine No. 651, a type 4-6-2 locomotive, in Dallas.

Twin 2000HP E7s power Texas & Pacific's Train No.8 "The Southerner" past Union Terminal Company's coach yard in 1950 with South Tower and the powerhouse smokestack in the distance.

Texas and Pacific train No. 1 the "Texas Eagle" headed by Engine No. 2001, a 4000 H.P. electro-motive diesel in Dallas.

Texas and Pacific's "The Westerner" train No. 7, westbound, headed by Engine No. 907, a 900 Class Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from the Texarkana, Arkansas - Texas Union Station.

Texas and Pacific's "the Westerner" train No. 7, westbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 2003, departing from the Union Station in Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas.

Lunch is now being served aboard the Rock Island's "Twin Star Rocket" train No. 17, southbound, enroute from Minneapolis to Houston in 1951.

Kansas City Southern's "The Flying Crow" train No. 15, southbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 34, arriving in Texarkana, on the Texas -Arkansas border.

Photograph taken in the summer of 1951. "The Grand Canyon" Santa Fe No. #3775, a 3765 Class Northern, is eastbound roaring through Cajon Pass while a freight train waits on the side. The cantilever signal was very common when the photo was taken, but now have been mostly replaced.

Southern Pacific's the "Hustler" train No. 15 northbound, headed by Engine No.650, a streamlined type 4-6-2 locomotive, entering Dallas Union Station on its run from Houston. The train is passing under the electric street railway viaduct (destroyed in the late 1950s) which spanned the railroad tracks and crossed over the Trinity River. Electric street cars to and from Oak Cliff and Interurban cars of the Northern Texas Traction Company and Texas Electric Railway used this double track facility.

This photograph depicts the most famous stretch of railroad main line in the world as it appeared in the autumn of 1951- the Pennsy's Horseshoe Curve, located in Kittanning Gap in Pennsylvania. In this scene a Pennsylvania K4s locomotive acts as a "helper" on the head-end of a diesel powered train.

The St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway's "Lone Star Limited" train No. 11, westbound, headed by Engine No 677, a Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, at the Dallas Union Terminal Station. It has completed the run from Memphis, Tennessee. This was one of the finest passenger trains operating in the Southwest. t