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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0275]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "First portion of a 600-foot railroad trestle on the N. T. Olsen Ranch in northwestern Osage County, near the Hardy community, comes down as dynamiters fire a charge under the structure. The former Midland Valley Railroad line from Silverdale, Kan., to Pawhuska has been abandoned and the track is being taken up."
Date: March 21, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0185]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Altus, some 480 man hours and 50 gallons of paint have brought new life to an aged locomotive standing in Altus South Park as a monument to the railroad era in the U.S."
Date: October 10, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Which roadbed is wider? That's the question both Texas and Oklahoma county commissioners are pondering on this Carpenter's Bluff railroad bridge east of Denison, Texas. This shot is looking south from the Oklahoma side of the Red River."
Date: November 10, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0399.0633]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Steve Rhodes, Mustang, commands a detailed, scale-model world Saturday at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma City Area Model Railroad Association at Rose State College."
Date: September 20, 1985
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0273]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Work like Bobby Patterson, Bartlesville, is doing here with a cutting torch in salvage operations on the old Katy line in the Panhandle was suspended Wednesday as hopes of reviving the railroad rose again."
Date: May 9, 1973
Creator: Johnson, James
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0347]

Description: Caption: "Single switch engine idles in the railyards east of the Byers Street overpass as two men on the ground and one in the engine discuss what to do with the strings of freight cars that have nowhere to go because of the nationwide rail strike." The head of a train going one direction on a railway and a line of other train cars going in the opposite direction on another railway.
Date: July 17, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0274]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Katy Railroad demolition operations such as this along the abandoned railroad west of Eva in the Panhandle have ceased while the State Railroad Maintenance Authority negotiates for purchase of the line and considers $10 million in revenue bonds. Salvage project foreman Eugene Vogele, Shidler, left, is supervising the work of Bobby Patterson, Bartlesville. They are employees of L. B. Foster & Co. of Houston, and were told to… more
Date: May 9, 1973
Creator: Johnson, James
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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