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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0142]

Description: Caption: "The name and fame of Oklahoma will be perpetuated on the sides of one of the delux, reclining chair cars of the streamlined, Diesel powered "Choctaw Rocket" of the Rock Island Lines, which train will be on public exhibition at the Rock Island passenger station in Oklahoma City on Friday."
Date: November 25, 1940
Creator: Kaufmann & Fabry Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0102]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mack Lindley, agent for Santa Fe Railway at Fairview, watches Melvin Johnson check the coupling on 'Old 2522' just before the old-timer was hauled away into discard, marking the end of the steam train era at the Fairview yard."
Date: June 25, 1954
Creator: Krouse Studios
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0178]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Trains standing for forlornly in a fog shrouded railyard near SE 6th and Byers take on phantomlike appearance Saturday, appearing and then disappearing as thick misty clouds rol in and out around them."
Date: November 25, 1978
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 4012

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 4012, 4-8-8-4, on eastbound freight extra, starting down Sherman Hill at Sherman, WY, 101 cars, 25 mph.
Date: June 25, 1949
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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