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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0259]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Transportation is making long strides twoard more comfort and convenience. This is a highly modernistic railroad train, built by automotive manufacturer General Motors. It will be in OKC this week at the Frisco-Rock Island Station, open to the public from 2-9 p.m. for three days. The "Train of Tomorrow" includes a 2,000 horsepower Diesel-electric locomotive."
Date: March 14, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0264]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The observation-lounge car is the deluxe end of the train. It has four different levels, this one being the topmost refreshment bar with wall seats, chairs, and tables. (Train of Tomorrow)"
Date: March 14, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0714]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Working under a hot summer sun, repair crews on the Sante Fe tracks near SE 29 and Shields resurface a crossing following the installation of heavier rails."
Date: June 14, 1978
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0160]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "end of the line is near for old No. 543, a Santa Fe locomotive which has been chugging and pussfing across the prairies since 1897."
Date: April 14, 1943
Creator: Albright, Bob
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0588]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The l;arge building at left is Skirvin Plaza. The small building beside it was the Rock Island Station. The view is westward from the site Sta Fe Plaza toward what is now Couch Drive. Photo was made before railroad removed in 1930."
Date: November 14, 1982
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0715]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers are busy near Altus replacing rail on a line that southwestern Oklahoma farmers once feared would cut them off from key shipping points in Texas."
Date: May 14, 1978
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0263]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dining car meals on the "Train of Tomorrow" are prepared in an all-electrical kitchen, and table service is provided in three different dining rooms on three different floor levels (this is the main level) ."
Date: March 14, 1948
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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0398.0496]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dirt work is well under way for the Santa Fe Railroad Co., marshaling yard with work going on both north and south of East 89, although controversy surrounding the closing of the street and for zoning changes within the City of Moore, are not yet resolved."
Date: March 14, 1979
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
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