"The Texas Eagle" leaving Fort Worth

Fort Worth, TX
"The Texas Eagle" leaving Fort Worth

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Specifications

T&P T&P # 2015
MoPac MoPac # 35
Model E8-A
Builder GM-EMD
Build Date 1951
Horsepower 2000
Photo Credit Museum of the American Railroad - The Portal to Texas History
Date June 28, 1953
Category Diesel Engine

  Notes

  • Steam Generator
  • Description

    Texas and Pacific's "The Texas Eagle" train No. 1, westbound, headed by diesel locomotive No. 2015, leaving Fort Worth enroute to El Paso on June 28, 1953.

    Plummer, Roger S. ["The Texas Eagle" leaving Fort Worth], photograph, June 28, 1953; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28778/: accessed March 5, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Museum of the American Railroad.