FW & D Shops in 1886 Fort Worth

Screenshot from 1886 Bird's Eye View of Fort Worth detailing Fort Worth & Denver Shops.

 

Full map found at Amon Carter Museum's Texas Bird's-Eye Views

T&P Fans Unite!

I love history, and the T&P is one of those narrow fields of interest which only a relative handful of persons really care about.

I don't want to run this blog, and I'm not going to... but!

I'm going to throw some pictures up, some videos if I can find them, and above all, links the the diaspora of T&P fan sites.

Lets start there:  Fan sites, perhaps diluting each others potential:

Yahoo Groups: Texas Pacific Railway Club
Blog with forum: Route of the Eagles
Web Site: Texas & Pacific Railway (formerly, I think, "Railfan Depot")
Web Site: Memories of the T&P
Web Site: Historic Outline of the Texas & Pacific Railroad (From the MOPAC Screaming Eagles site)


And some Maps:

The David Rumsey Map Collection Site is a key to fans

Time Tables
But it is not just maps, as David Rumsey's Collection even includes a wealth of time tables:

1878 T&P Time Table from David Rumsey's online collection

UTA:
Of course, if you are doing any historical research, you either already know or would soon find out that the University of Texas at Arlington is a primary source of historical documents and phots, many of which are available online.

UTA is primary source

SMU:
Southern Methodist University in Dallas also has a significant collection, especially in the DeGolyer Library.

Videos:
A video to get you started (wait for it-- the 610 really is in there!)



Pictures:

From some auction site

Wow! From a car modification web site-- who 'da thought?

From trainweb

My point is... 
In an hour, I threw this blog and blog entry together--

• Each Entry can start a discussion, include pictures, videos as well as text
• Comments are easy for visitors to make, and editors to moderate, 
• Contributors/Editors can easily be added, deleted, and changed
• It is doubtful that a single Nigerian spam letter will ever appear!

So, if I have your interest, and especially of you already knew all of the sources-- how about taking on this project?  I will gladly hand it over!