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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0131]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "hard luck Rock Island crossing signal at NE 1 and Lincoln, never activated after it was installed last year, had run into a misfortune."
Date: April 21, 1980
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0146]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tall weeds, said by Ward 3 councilman Neal A. Balkan to be as tall as 10 feet in places prompted Balkan to telephone the president of Rock Island Lines railway in Chicago."
Date: August 27, 1975
Creator: Etheridge, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0125]

Description: Caption: "On the wrong track, these two runaway Rock Island friegh cars coasted through a derail east of Oklahoma City Saturday tipping a load of scrap metal at a precarious angle, twisting car bodies, up rooting track and putting the wheels off the rail."
Date: July 11, 1953
Creator: Green, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0134]

Description: Caption: "On the wrong track, these two runaway Rock Island frieght cars coasted through a derail east of Oklahoma City Saturday tipping a load of scrap metal at a precarious angle, twisting car bodies, uprooting track and putting the wheels off the rail."
Date: July 11, 1953
Creator: Green, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0121]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Peggy sets the brakes on the oldtime coaches with oil burning lamps. The seats are covered with red plush and the original water cooler comes equipped with a tin cup on a nail."
Date: August 26, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0139]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Smoothing Workmen were busy Friday repairing the Rock Island Railroad crossing on N. Rockwell between NW 5 and Reno."
Date: September 13, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The end! Tht's waht John McGuire of Shawnee, No. 1 conductor and oldest conductor of Rock Island's "Old Panhandle and Indian Territory Division, " said Thursday night as the last east bound Rock Island passenger train pulled out of the station at 300 SW 7."
Date: November 10, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0118]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's proof that the Rock Island track soon will be taaken up and trains routed through the city on brank new line far sout of the business."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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