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The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...
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.
1880–1989 Missouri-Kansas-Texas [1] 1880–1881 Texas Trunk Railroad; 1881–1961 Texas and New Orleans Railroad (acquired the TT) 1901–1904 Red River, Texas and Southern Railroad; 1902–1964 Saint Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railroad (nickname Frisco, absorbed the RRT&S) 1903–1932 St. Louis Southwestern Railway; 1903–1980 Chicago ...
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad #438: dining car American Car and Foundry Company 1937; Other. Fort Worth and Denver Railway Business car:- Texland, Pullman Company 1900, Originally Colorado & Southern Railway observation car. Texas and Pacific Railway Railway Post Office-Baggage Car #916: Pullman Company 1918
Missouri Pacific Railroad: Fort Worth and Denver Railway: FW&D, FWD CB&Q: 1951 1982 Burlington Northern Railroad: Fort Worth and Denver City Railway: FW&D CB&Q: 1873 1951 Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Fort Worth and Denver Northern Railway: CB&Q: 1929 1952 Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway: CB&Q: 1925 1952
Much of the company's route originally belonged to the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, which began construction from Fort Worth in 1886 and reached Brownwood in 1891. In 1901, the FW&RG was bought by the Frisco Railway, which sold it to the Santa Fe Railway in 1937. The Santa Fe sold the line to an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad in 1994.
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Fire Station No.1, Fort Worth former satellite museum of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, closed on February 19, 2016 [210] Hangar 10 Flying Museum, Denton; Hayden Museum of American Art, Paris, closed in 2010 [211] Owens Spring Creek Farm, Richardson, operated by Bob Evans Farms, Inc., closed in 2013 [212]