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Centralized guide to all EPCC's local history publications, videos and guides and sources for local history topics

El Paso Airport

“El Paso’s First Municipal Airport,” by Stacy C. Hinkle, art., xiii, 1-16su
Password Vol 13
Air Age Comes to El Paso (Password 33, 1988)
E.P. Dedicated first Municipal Airport In 1928
September 11, 1968 El Paso Times article

A history of El Paso International airport by Patton, Raymon E.
Call Number: El Paso Public Library -- Main
Publication Date: 1952
Border Heritage Southwest Collection
Fifty years of service, 1928-1978 : El Paso International Airport.
Call Number: El Paso Public LIbrary - Main
Publication Date: 1978
Border Heritage Southwest Collection

Guide to MS459 Dorothea Magdalena Fox papers
Aviation history including Biggs Air Field

Highways in El Paso

From Buffalo Soldiers to Redlined Communities: African American Community Building in El Paso’s Lincoln Park Neighborhood
article by Miguel Juárez, American Studies 2019 . Speaks to redlining and the construction of I10 that impacted nonwhite communities. EPCC Users

History of transportation in the El Paso/Juarez area by Fred Morales
Call Number: HE210.5.M67 2000
Research transportation in places that often have been ignored in this book and many others by local historian Fred Morales.

2023 Morales Index Combined
Online pdf index to El Paso historian Fred Morales' many local history books on areas of town such as the Segundo Barrio, Chihuahuita, Smeltertown, Downtown, Aoy and Bowie Schools, Cemeteries, Ciudad Juarez, the History of Transportation and much more! Does not include his History of Bowie High School: 1922-1973. Compiled by EPCC Librarian Marsha Labodda

Search for newspaper articles using terms such as: "Lincoln Park", "Spaghetti Bowl", interstate, I10

El Paso Times & El Paso Herald-Post Newspaper Archive
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1881 - current.

Changing Lanes by Cliff Ellis; Joseph F. C. DiMento
Call Number: E-book (EPCC users only)
ISBN: 9780262018586
Publication Date: 2012
Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939 by Mark H. Rose; Raymond A. Mohl
ISBN: 9781572337251
Publication Date: 2012-05-10
Good background information on highway policy and protests against freeways especially in chapters 8 and 9. Does not mention El Paso specifically.

Railroad/Transportation Sources

Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso (website)
Trains into El Paso (EPHistory.com radio show)
"We review the history and the major changes the railroads had on El Paso in the 1880s. El Paso became a major train hub in two years of 1881 to 1883 and is still a major train corridor today." Air date 4/25/20
NeoClassical Architecture
Daniel H. Burnam, Architect
1916 El Paso Times article on arrival of the railroad
Portal to Texas History
"2002: Engine No. 1 Rolls Again’” 29 May 2002. Tales From the Morgue: El Paso History is Never Dead,, El Paso Times. 24 Jun 2010.
tours of locomotive 3420 and several historic rail cars
El Paso History Show Radio Archives
El Paso’s Union Passenger Station (Password 1, 1956)
UTEP Slideshow on Engine No. 1 and its various locations
Werner, George C. “Southern Pacific System,” Handbook of Texas Online.

2023 Morales Index Combined
Online pdf index to El Paso historian Fred Morales' many local history books on areas of town such as the Segundo Barrio, Chihuahuita, Smeltertown, Downtown, Aoy and Bowie Schools, Cemeteries, Ciudad Juarez, the History of Transportation and much more! Does not include his History of Bowie High School: 1922-1973. Compiled by EPCC Librarian Marsha Labodda

Streetcar (Sun Metro)
El Paso Mass Transit History.
The Jackass Mail—San Antonio And San Diego Mail Line
The Journal of San Diego History
Stagecoaching In Texas (Texas Almanac)
Stagecoaching In Texas (Texas Almanac)

Streetcars at the Pass by Ron Dawson
Call Number: EPCC Libraries
ISBN: 0595296238
Publication Date: 2003-
pt. 1. The mule cars of El Paso. -- pt.2 To Tobin Place. -- pt.3 The interurban to Ysleta.

El Paso Trolley First to Connect Two Nations (with Update 2017)

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