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The Abilene and Southern Railway Company was founded on January 13, 1909, in Abilene, Texas by Morgan Jones (1839-1926). Jones proposed to construct 150 miles (240 km) of railroad. [1] Construction work started soon and on April 23, 1909, the first official train ran the eight miles (12.9 km) from Abilene to Iberis, Texas.
St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas; St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway; St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway; San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway; San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad; Seagraves, Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad; South Orient Railroad; Southern Pacific Company; Southern Pacific Railroad; Stephenville North and ...
The Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway (WBT&S) was a standard gauge U.S. shortline railroad located in East Texas.The company was formed from two earlier shortlines that interchanged in Trinity, Texas, and had come under the control of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, but were spun off in 1923 as part of that company's bankruptcy reorganization.
Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad: SLSF: 1903 1907 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: OKKT MKT: 1980 1989 Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Oklahoma, Red River and Texas Railway: 1910 1912 N/A Operated Blossom to Deport, 11 miles Orange and Northwestern Railroad: MP: 1901 1956 Missouri Pacific ...
The carrier has trackage rights over the line of the Abilene & Northern Railway Company from Abilene to Anson, 24.62 miles, which connects the lines of the former company. CORPORATE HISTORY. The carrier was incorporated January 13, 1909, under the general laws of the State of Texas, for a period of 50 years, as the Abilene and Southern Railway ...
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 September 5, 1895. It was acquired by the Houston and Texas ...
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. (2005). 323 pp. the standard history; online review; Childs, William R. "Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s." Journal of Policy History 1990 2(4): 353–387. ISSN ...
March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred ...