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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 ...
St. Paul and Pacific Northwest Railroad (SPPN) St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (SPPR) Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad (STE) Stourbridge Railroad (SBRR) Strasburg Rail Road (SRC) Swan Ranch Railroad (SRRR) Tacoma Rail (TMBL) Tazewell and Peoria Railroad (TZPR) Temple and Central Texas Railway (TC) Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR) Tennken ...
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
Texas Pacifico Transportation Ltd. (reporting mark TXPF) is a Class III railroad operating company in West Texas owned by Grupo México. [3] [4] The company operates over the South Orient Rail Line under a lease and operating agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas Pacifico Transportation, Ltd. The Texas Pacifico company ...
Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. [1] Historians credit the railroad system for the country's vast development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as having helped facilitate a ...
Texas Pacific Railroad: Southwestern Railroad: SW 1990 2007 N/A Southwestern Railway: 1907 1920 N/A Stamford and Northwestern Railway: CB&Q: 1909 1952 Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Stephenville North and South Texas Railway: SSW: 1907 1941 N/A Sugar Land Railway: SL MP: 1893 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Taylor, Bastrop and Houston Railway ...
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 1874. [citation needed] The line was built by several different companies and largely consolidated under Southern Pacific, with completion at the Colorado River in 1883. [2]
Other railroads, such as the Santa Fe and Rock Island Lines, stopped at the nearby Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station. [5] The Texas & Pacific ran the Louisiana Eagle from New Orleans to Fort Worth, until 1963. [6] A successor night train and a successor day train ran on the route to New Orleans as late as 1968. [7]