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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) Streamilner 606

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fort Smith & Western (FSW) #4

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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