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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 ...
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English: This promotional map of Texas, Indian Territory, and parts of surrounding states is quite unusual in its almost fluorescent coloration. The text on the back of the map advertises "300 miles of track" and "better and surer connections" with trains of the International and Great Northern Railroad.
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Pecos and Northern Texas Railway: Longhorn Railway: LHRR 1996 2000 Austin Area Terminal Railroad: Longview and Sabine Valley Railway: ATSF: 1877 1886 Galveston, Sabine and St. Louis Railway: Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company of Texas: KCS: 1923 1930 Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas Railway: Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: L&A, LA KCS: 1939 1992
The railway line was sold to Charles Morgan in March 1877. The Houston and Texas Central Railway Company entered receivership on February 23, 1885; the Main Line and the Western Division were sold to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company on April 1, 1890. The Waco and Northwestern Division remained in receivership until it was sold on ...
The backers of the Tyler Tap were able to interest St. Louis capitalist James W. Paramore—president of the St. Louis Cotton Compress Company—and his associates in the railroad, because they believed the line might result in lower shipping rates for cotton shipments from Texas to their compressors in St. Louis.
1871 map showing the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway in Texas, along with other railroads. In 1850 the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad was chartered and in 1852 the company started construction. In 1853 the line reached Stafford and by January 1, 1856 the railroad ran from Harrisburg to Richmond. Worried that their city was being ...