Roy Durie

Color oil Portrait of Roy Durie. Mr Durie is wearing gray felt cowboy hat, black tie, white shirt with pearl buttons, black rim glasses, gray cowboy cut suit, leather embossed belt, gold belt buckle, Texas shaped belt clip, and gold watch chain
Date: July 20, 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engine 488 at Chama, New Mexico Depot]

Engine No. 488. a Mikado type 2-8-2 narrow gauge locomotive, heads Rail Fans' Special train at Chama, New Mexico Depot on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Washingtonian" rolling through eastern Canada]

"The Washingtonian" train No. 20 southbound, rolls through the Canadian countryside east of Montreal on the first portion of its route via Canadian National, Vermont, Maine, Boston, New Haven and Pennsylvania rails to Washington D.C.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engine 183 above the Toltec Gorge]

Rio Grande's engine No. 483 exits from Toltec Tunnel No. 2 on narrow gauge rails between Alamosa and Durango, Colorado. This is above Toltec Gorge with the Garfield Monument located about 100 feet west of the tunnel portal. Rocky cliffs are to the left of the track and a railing is to the right.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Steam engine in valley of Rio de los Animas, Colorado]

Reminiscent of those days of yesteryear Rio Grande's Silverton train No. 461 is chugging northward over narrow gauge rails through the valley of Rio de los Animas in Colorado.
Date: 1965~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Turntable at San Lazaro engine terminal]

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.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Peterson, Roland B.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Passenger train crossing the Chinipas Bridge]

Chihuahua - Pacific Railway's transcontinental passenger train crossing one of 28 major bridges on the line between Chihuahua City and San Blas in Mexico. This is the Chinipas bridge, which is the highest, located at Kilometer 748. The height is 334.7 feet and the length is 958 feet. Circa 1965.
Date: 1965~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Grand Canyon" traverses Raton Pass]

Santa Fe's "The Grand Canyon", headed by nine GM Diesel Units, 18,000 horsepower, with a consist of twenty-three cars traverses Raton Pass in Mew Mexico on September 17, 1960.
Date: September 17, 1960
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train on the Old Mexican Railway]

The daylight train No. 51, eastbound, traverses a trestle on the Old Mexican Railway, over the electrified division between Esperanza and Paso del Macho, enroute from Mexico City to Veracruz in August 1964.
Date: 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad's coach yard]

Aerial view of the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad's fabulous 51st Street coach yard and facilities in Chicago. At this time the destruction of the nation's great network of rail passenger service was only about two years away.
Date: 1966~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Interior of Chicago and North Western Railway station]

A typical rush hour scene in the magnificent Chicago Station of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Date: 1965~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rail lines south of Dallas' Union Station]

Main rail lines approaching the Dallas Union Station from the south.
Date: September 1968
Creator: Freeman, G. Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Union Station in Dallas]

One of the nation's finest railroad terminals: Dallas Union Station which is served by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, known as Amtrak, and soon to be served by commuter trains, operating between Dallas - Fort Worth and other North Texas points. The station is owned by the City of Dallas and represents an investment and modernization aggregating fifteen million dollars.
Date: September 1968
Creator: Freeman, G. Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mighty Engine No. 1361 of the Pennsylvania Railroad]

Pennsylvania Railroad's mighty and versatile Engine No. 1361, a K4s Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, was one of the earliest built in the shops at Altoona, Pennsylvania. This locomotive was placed in service May 18, 1918 and hauled passenger trains on the main line between New York, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh over a period of thirty-five years. It rolled up a total of 2,469,000 miles before retirement. It now reposes at the famous Horseshoe Curve as a permanent monument.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Observation Car on "The Panama Central"]

Interior view of the observation car in the consist of the Illinois Central's "The Panama Limited."
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Panama Limited" departing Chicago]

Illinois Central's "The Panama Limited" train No. 5, southbound, an all Pullman streamliner, departing from Chicago on its 921.1 mile run to New Orleans.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rail Car crossing the Chinipas Bridge]

Fiat Diesel rail car crossing the Chinipas Bridge on the Chihuahua - Pacific Railway enroute through the Sierra Tarahumara (Copper Canyon) region of Mexico around 1968.
Date: 1968~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chihuahua - Pacific Railway train on Santa Barbara Bridge]

Chihuahua - Pacific Railway's passenger train on the horse shoe curve of the Santa Barbara bridge in a region of mountain vastness in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico around 1963.
Date: 1963~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["The Chief" in California]

Photograph of Santa Fe's "The Chief" passing "Sullivan's Curve" in rugged Cajon Pass, California, June 1964.
Date: June 1964
Creator: Meitz, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Commuter Train]

Commuter train on the electrified division of the New Haven Railroad between New York and New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1960.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Twin-unit dining car]

Dinner is now being served aboard the Twin-unit dining car in the consist of the New York Central's "Twentieth Century Limited", circa 1960.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Panama Limited" stands at New Orleans terminal]

Illinois Central Railroad's "Panama Limited" train No. 6, northbound, stands in the New Orleans' Union Passenger Terminal awaiting the hour of departure on its overnight run to Chicago on May 25, 1969.
Date: May 25, 1969
Creator: Hanlon, Pat
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Union Station in Washington D.C.]

This massive structure is the Union Station in Washington D.C. on July 25, 1969. This terminal has a total of thirty tracks, of which nine are through tracks and twenty-one are stub end. A portion of the station's tracks are electrified by the overhead catenary system thereby Permitting Penn Central's GG1 Electric Locomotives heading passenger trains, the "Metroliners", and electric powered multiple unit commuter trains to serve the terminal.
Date: July 25, 1969
Creator: Hanlon, Pat
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Old Pennsylvania Station in New York City]

Photograph of one of the world's greatest railroad terminals, the Old Pennsylvania Station on New York, NY seen here on July 1960. Although transformed above the ground-level by construction of the Madison Square Garden, which was completed in December 1969, this terminal continues to provide efficient service to commuters and passengers who use the trains.
Date: 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History