Just posted 2 pictures of T&NO freight cars in the Freight Cars album. First picture is a tankcar in maintenance of way service. Second picture is a 40 foot...
ON the Texas state archives website is 1879 H&TC public timetable, showing North and south and east and west directions for trains. I wonder when all the SP...
Hi List : With the patient and understanding assistance of a long-serving former member of the T&NO Engineering Department, I have panned out a few more...
List, Several days ago Tom VanWormer posted this comment on the ... I've not heard this before; I always thought - and read - that power, both steam and...
Someone who hired out on the T&NO at Lafayette, LA in 1955 told me that the cabooses back then did not have radios (or electricity), but the diesels did; so...
I have searched for discussion of ballast used on the T&NO, but everything seems to focus on post WWII. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to when the...
I know it is not the tno, but sometime between about 1955 and about 1961,I used to hang around the team track near ardis or atkins street on the SSW at...
I'm trying to track down a long lost cousin, Henry TEAGUE. He was an engineer for TNO a 100 years ago. At that time, he used the mail address 1603 Gano,...
The march 1932 issue of the ORT magazine The Railroad Telegrapher, has a picture of a station and tower on the front, but no identification inside. It does...
The Side Track Records collection by TNO_GP9 has been updated with the addition of the long promised 1926 Victoria Division. Not every link has been tested, so...
Texas state archives 2-10/581 GH&SA office of supt Houston div. san antonio,tx. 9/20/1902 bulletin 2404-a interlocking SAAP & GHSA crossing will be put in...
Hi Guys Having read Tony Thompson's SP Freight Cars Vol 4 I have become intrigued by the cars used in the bagasse industry. Tony shows some excellent photos of...
call number ts 805 a6 1906 to 1912 at Library of Congress from their online computer. I don't know what is in this book, but it might shed some light on the...
There was a question raised on the Katy list about the interchange of passenger cars between the Katy and the T&NO. Perhaps somebody in this group might be...
This may not totally qualify, but at the Camp Creek Railroaders east of Waverly,Ne., one person was driving a SP 4-6-2 live steam 7 1/2 inch gaude locomotive....
The TNO line from the Bellaire junction in Houston east into downtown Houston's Polk Ave yard...is the old SAAP line. The former Hill St yard on the SAAP...
Hello List, here comes some more Victoria talk. Forgive me if the material has been mentioned before. The following link from teh Amon Carter Museum in Ft....
List: Steve Allen Goen's splendid book [which I own], "Texas & New Orleans Color Pictorial," does devote several pages of text to the complexities of the...
Henry and List : That same RPO data which I passed along to Tony Thompson yielded a couple of nuggets regarding the "Border Limited" operations between ...
Hi List, Can one of you guys or gals find me a photo of the T&NO depot in Harlingen? If you can't think of a photo, I'd even settle for a description of the...
In “The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985” Don Hofsommer says that the end of the Morgan Line came in 1941, when the liner S.S. DIXIE was sold to the U.S....
I just discovered this book in an internet search. the page i saw concerned railroads. I don't know if this will help anyone in doing research. michael lowe...
Westside Models Southern Pacific GS-8/Cotton Belt L1. $350 plus shipping and insurance from Minnesota. http://home.comcast.net/~zurekc/GS8.jpg Chris Z....
Doodlebugs? I need to see a picture of one of these! What the nose painted like? Black Widow? Mike, Sharon, and Jacob Jarvis ... Mike: slvreagl@... ...
In keeping with the "Rebirth - Restore" theme of New Orleans, the Louisiana Steam Train Association (www.lasta.org) is planning a 50th anniversary celebration...
When Was The Former SAAP Giddings-Waco Branch Finally Abandoned??I Didn't Realize It Until A Few Years Ago That The Espee Ran Through Rosebud.I Was Visiting My...
