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Nowers Rail Yard, Oklahoma City

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Railroads, City, MK-T, Misc." Information added by the OHS: View looking south of the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe rail yard called the Nowers Yard. In 2020, the Nowers Yard is located on the north side of Oklahoma City west of the State Capitol, between NE 26th and NE 36th on the west side of N. Santa Fe Ave. The Nowers Yard is the oldest of the Santa Fe Railway (now BNSF Railway in 2020) rail yards in Oklahoma City.
Date: May 24, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This streamlined gaint of 3000 horsepower, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is half again as powerful as anything of its type ever to run on rails."
Date: February 13, 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0244]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Another pre-view of what tomorrow's trains will look like is this one, now under construction by Great NOrthern and which is due to go into operation late this year."
Date: February 24, 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0247]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Prospector, crack Rio Grande Railroad flyer, Streaks westward just after emerging from six-mile-long Moffat Tunnel and passing 4,000 feet under the summit of James Peak, part of which is visible in the background."
Date: June 19, 1946
Creator: Rio Grande Railroad Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0248]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Preview of the 4,000 horsepower Diesel-Electric streamlined locomotive which will power Frisco's Flash Trains on the Meteor and Texas Special runs."
Date: April 10, 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0646]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Santa fe's Ranger puffed into Oklahoma City at 5:30 p. m. Thursday, an hour and half after the railway strike started."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0533]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Huffing and puffing nervously early Saturday afternoon at the Frisco roundhouse because of the uncertainty of the railroad strike, the Frisco meteor got up steamwhen the strike ended officially and chugged eagerly down the tracks to leave at 6 p.m. for St. Louis."
Date: May 26, 1946
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0148]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Thirty minutes late and with a "traveling engineer" at the throttle, the Memphis bound Rock Island Rocket slowed to a halt at El Reno Thursday night, not tomove again until the rail strike ends."
Date: May 23, 1946
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Railroad Crossing

Description: Photo of a railroad crossing for the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific railroad in Cherokee, Oklahoma. There is a large grain elevator on the right.
Date: July 9, 1946
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Railroad Crossing

Description: Photo of a railroad crossing for the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific railroad in Cherokee, Oklahoma. There is a large grain elevator on the right.
Date: July 9, 1946
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0287.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The first clinic speaker, Robert S. Henry, right , assistant to the association president and public relations director for the Association of American Railroad, is shown registering Monday morning in the Skirvin Tower hotel after arriving from Washington, D.C. Menter Baker, center, and Mrs. Velma Smith, left, are shown in the registration booth."
Date: October 14, 1946
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Flag Station Stop

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-424. Flag station stop on the M-K-T Railroad, Hester, Oklahoma. View looking northwest. Photograph taken at 9:30 a.m."
Date: November 14, 1946
Creator: Parker, D. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Ferrocarriles Nationales de Mexico (FNM) 6205

Description: A photograph postcard showing the Ferrolcarriles Nationales de Mexico, or N de M (NDM or FNM) 6205, 2-unit diesel-electric (EMD), 300 km south of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. On right is NDEM locomotive engineer Teodomiso Juarez, at left is Robert T. Hair of EMD [GM Electromotive Division], in Mexico to train drivers.
Date: December 12, 1946
Creator: Juarez, Teodomiso
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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