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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 Railroad: Panhandle Railway: ATSF: 1887 1898 Southern ...
Houston and Texas Central Railway Company (1). See 4. Sold at sheriff's sale, Apr. 2, 1861, to David H. Page and Wm. J. Hutchins, who reorganized as 2 under original charter. 4 Galveston and Red River Railway Company. Under special act of Texas, Mar. 11, 1848. Name changed to 3, Sept. 1, 1856. 5 Washington County Rail Road Company. Under ...
This locomotive was similar to the C&O T-1, with the same 69 in (1,750 mm) drivers, but with 300 psi (2.1 MPa) boiler pressure and 60% limited cutoff. It proved the viability of the type on the ATSF, but the Great Depression shelved plans to acquire more. In 1938, with the railroad's fortunes improving, ATSF acquired 10 more 2-10-4 locomotives.
The Gulf Coast Lines were projected originally by B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the board of the Rock Island and Frisco Lines.Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston ...
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The railroad's tangible assets became part of the Fort Worth and Denver and Rock Island railroads in 1965 and the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad was no more. Rock Island went out of business on March 31, 1980, leaving the Fort Worth and Denver in sole control; it in turn merged into the Burlington Northern system on December 31, 1982.
Texas Central or Texas Central Partners, LLC, is a private company that is proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. [3] It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company and trains based on the N700S Series Shinkansen .
On December 5, 1898, the property of The Panhandle Railway Company, consisting of about 14.5 miles of completed road between Panhandle City and Washburn, Tex., was purchased at foreclosure sale by B. Wilder, treasurer of The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and was by him conveyed by deed to the Panhandle and Santa Fe under its ...