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English: This folding railroad promotional brochure map is a fine example of a late nineteenth-century American railway map by one of the most important American railway mapmakers and publishers still in business today: Rand, McNally and Company of Chicago. Established in 1858 as a printing company, by 1873 the firm was known for its railroad ...
The railroad traces its roots back to the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Gauge Railroad, a narrow-gauge railroad established in 1875. In 1883, the line was extended over the Rio Grande and the Mexico–United States border. The railroad was purchased by the Mexican government in 1900, which controlled the railroad until 1982 when it ...
Fort Worth & Denver Alco 2-8-0 No. 304 at the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum FW&D Engine 501 in Childress, Texas. At the railroad's peak in 1944, during the World War II economic boom, the Texas Railroad Commission reported that the FW&DC earned $12,132,515 in freight revenue, $5,839,399 in passenger revenue, and $1,488,095 in other revenue ...
The Southern Pacific Railroad was replaced by the Southern Pacific Company and assumed the railroad operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1929, Southern Pacific/Texas and New Orleans operated 13,848 route-miles not including Cotton Belt, whose purchase of the Golden State Route circa 1980 nearly doubled its size to 3,085 miles (4,965 ...
The Waco and Northwestern Division remained in receivership until it was sold on September 5, 1895. It was acquired by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad on June 30, 1898. [4] The H&TC Railroad continued to operate independently until 1927, when it was leased to the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific ...
Eastern Texas Railroad: SSW: 1900 1921 N/A Eastern Texas Railroad: 1860 1863 N/A Eastland, Wichita Falls and Gulf Railroad: 1918 1944 N/A El Paso and Northeastern Railroad: SP: 1896 1937 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad of Texas: El Paso Northern Railway: SP: 1894 1897 El Paso and Northeastern Railroad: El Paso Southern Railway: SP: 1897 1961 ...
The Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad was a partly double-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, situated entirely within the State of Louisiana. The main line extended from Algiers , on the Mississippi River opposite New Orleans , to Lafayette , where it connected with the line of the Louisiana Western Railroad Company .
The Longhorn and Western Railroad is the Texas Transportation Museum's standard gauge heritage railroad that operates on its property with no connection to the general rail system. The L&W consists of approximately 5 ⁄ 8 -mile (1.0 km) of trackage in total, with its mainline that runs 1 ⁄ 3 -mile (0.54 km) from the east and west ends of the ...