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English: Galveston newspaper editor M. Whilldin's well-illustrated Immigrants' Guide is an example of a genre of ephemera widely published by railroad companies to encourage people to use their railroads. It contains a colorful chromolithographed county map of central Texas indicating the "Sun Set Route" of the Galveston Harrisburg & San ...
Interstate 10 (I-10[b]) is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border with New Mexico, through El Paso, San Antonio, and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange. At just under 880 mi (1,420 km), the Texas segment of I-10, maintained by the ...
SH 343. → SH 344. U.S. Highway 90 Alternate is an alternate route to U.S. Highway 90 in Texas, United States, running from west of Seguin east via Seguin, Gonzales, Hallettsville, Eagle Lake, Rosenberg and Sugar Land to northeastern Houston. South of Downtown Houston, US 90 Alternate is built to freeway and near-freeway standards along a ...
San Antonio, Fredericksburg and Northern Railway: 1913 1917 Fredericksburg and Northern Railway: San Antonio and Gulf Railroad: SP: 1897 1905 Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway: San Antonio and Gulf Shore Railway: SP: 1893 1896 San Antonio and Gulf Railroad: San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad: SP: 1850 1871 Gulf, Western Texas and ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Sunset Route is a main line of the Union Pacific Railroad running between Southern California and New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The name traces its origins to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary which was known as the Sunset Route as early as ...
State Highway 87 (SH 87) runs for 249.4 miles (401.4 km) between Galveston, Texas (at a terminus shared with Interstate 45 and Spur 342) to U.S. Highway 59 and U.S. Highway 84 in Timpson, Texas. Highway 87 has a notable stretch between Sea Rim State Park and High Island, Texas that has been washed out repeatedly over the decades and has been ...
FM/RM. Park. Rec. ← SH 86. → SH 87. In the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. Highway 87 (US 87) is a north–south U.S. Highway that begins near the Gulf Coast in Port Lavaca, Texas and heads north through San Antonio, Lubbock, Amarillo, and Dalhart to the New Mexico state line near Texline.
After reaching San Antonio, the road was continued to El Paso, where it met the Southern Pacific and ensured that that line's transcontinental route would use the southern portion of Texas rather than the north. [5] 1876 map of the Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railroad. Sometimes the line is represented as originating in Houston.