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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0076]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The guard rail at the Santa Fe Railroad overpass at Main and Santa Fe Thursday morning apparently prevented a freight car, derailed by a switch engine, from crashing to the street below. No main line traffic was disrupted, and there were no injuries."
Date: February 7, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0176]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Railroad track behind Andrew Squares Senior Center make a good path for this lone hiker to follow, but his quiet surroundings are breifly interupted by a freight train rolling along the way."
Date: March 12, 1979
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0060]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The crack Kansas Cityan-Chicagoan pulled into the Santa Fe station here Friday afternoon for the first time, on a demonstration run, against a backdrop of the Oklahoma City skyline."
Date: December 8, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0400]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This stylized sign on a canopy column between main tracks has long been familiar to train travelers leaving from the Oklahoma City depot."
Date: 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0655]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Spikes, ties and rails were once molded into track in a slow, dangerous and back breaking process. But railroads have adopted a new system of mechanization evident this month along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. line between Nobal and Oklahoma City."
Date: February 20, 1976
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0078]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Photo shows the new "Rocket" streamline train of the Rock Island Railroad, to be on exhibit in OKC on Aug. 22. Six such trains will be placed into service by the railroad through the Midwest, including this one to operated in Oklahoma and Texas."
Date: August 20, 1937
Creator: Kaufmann & Fabry Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0057]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Zella Lindsay, city, Chickasaw, poses by a Santa Fe Railroad locomotive on a fancy new streamliner that is coming through OKC."
Date: December 8, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0462]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The weed-choked headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad line in Altus could be abandoned and left to Mother Nature's whims if railroad proposals to cancel the Oklahoma line are approved."
Date: September 2, 1979
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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