Austin Steam Train Association Records 1988-2000

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Austin Steam Train Association Records 1988-2000

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The Austin Steam Train Association (ASTA) was established in 1989 to preserve, interpret and re-create the first-hand experience of historic steam railroading in Central Texas. The collection of meeting minutes, bylaws and articles of incorporation, financial records, reports, correspondence, marketing materials, photographs and printed materials highlight the activities of the ASTA from the planning stages of the organization in 1988 to 2000.

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Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.

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Austin (Tex.). Dept. of Parks and Recreation.

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Austin Steam Train Association

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The locomotive, Southern Pacific No. 786, had been donated to the City of Austin in 1956 as the Southern Pacific was retiring its steam fleet in favor of diesel power, and she was put on static display in downtown Austin’s Brush Square. Twenty years later, the Southern Pacific ended its operations in the Austin area and sold the City 167 miles of its track from Giddings through Austin and into the Hill Country to Burnet, Llano and Marble Falls. A number of local rail afi...

Fisher, James D.

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