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Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred to above. March 21, 1872 - The Southern Pacific is purchased. March 30 - Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company is purchased. 1872 - Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, becomes president of the Texas & Pacific. May 2, 1872 - an Act of ...
The company was also known as the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad from 1868 until 1875, when the acquisition was set aside by court decision, and the railroad went into receivership. The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad was chartered December 2, 1879, and ran until 1901.
1919 map of the railroad. The Louisiana & Pacific Railway Company, controlled by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, had a total of 30.904 miles of tracks and trackage rights of 45 miles on the Lake Charles & Northern, between DeRidder and Bridge Junction (Lake Charles), and 6.3 miles from Bundicks (Longacre) to Hoy [1] [2]
The Big Four had, in 1861, created the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) [2] It later acquired the Central Pacific Railroad in 1885 through leasing. [3] [4] [5] By 1900, the Southern Pacific system was a major railroad system incorporating many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad.
Texas and Louisiana Railroad: SSW: 1900 1903 St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas: Texas, Louisiana and Eastern Railroad: ATSF: 1891 1897 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: Texas Mexican Railway: TM NDM: 1881 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern Railway: Texas Mexican Northern Railway: NDM: 1882 1906 Texas ...
June 30, 1934: All Texas and Louisiana SP subsidiaries previously leased to the SP-controlled Texas and New Orleans Railroad—with the exception of the Southern Pacific Terminal Company—are formally merged with the T&NO, thus creating the largest railroad in Texas, with 3,713 mi (5,975 km) of track. [26]
The Louisiana Central Railroad Company of Louisiana. Sept. 19, 1868 do Sold to 10 Mar. 22, 1870. 12 Louisiana Central Stem Railway Company. Mar. 20, 1856 do Name changed to 11 Sept. 19, 1868. 13 Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company. Mar. 8, 1877 do Sold to 8 Feb. 15, 1881. 14 New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad Company.
Southern Pacific Company: Texas Pacific Railroad: MP: 1872 1872 Texas and Pacific Railway: Texas and Pacific Railway: T&P, TP MP: 1872 1976 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Texas Pacific – Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans: TPMP MP: 1924 1978 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Tioga and Southeastern Railway: 1905 N/A Trans-Mississippi ...