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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 ...
It is the only surviving example of the Texas and Pacific Railway's (T&P) class I-1AR 2-10-4 "Texas" type locomotives. Built by the Lima Locomotive Works in June 1927, No. 610 and its class were based on Lima's prototype "Super Power" 2-8-4 design, and the T&P rostered them to pull fast and heavy freight trains.
Amtrak restored the Empire Service brand with the June 11, 1972, timetable, and added individual train names on the May 19, 1974, timetable. [5] [6] As was done on the Northeast Corridor with NortheastDirect, individual train names for New York-Albany and New York-Niagara Falls service were dropped on October 28, 1995, and replaced with Empire. [7]
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Chicago, Illinois - Jersey City, New Jersey [1915] 1913-1917 Chicago Express: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad: Chicago, Illinois - Minneapolis, Minnesota [1913] 1903-1918 Chicago Express: Chicago Great Western Railway: Chicago, Illinois - Des Moines, Iowa [1930] 1903-1932 Chicago Express: Union Pacific ...
Amtrak's Texas Eagle is the direct successor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Texas and Pacific Railway train of the same name, which was inaugurated in 1948 and ultimately discontinued in 1971. The route of Amtrak's Texas Eagle is longer ( Chicago to San Antonio versus St. Louis to San Antonio), but much of today's route is historically a ...
Missouri Pacific Railroad: Texas and New Orleans Railroad: T&NO, TNO SP: 1859 1961 Southern Pacific Company: Texas and Northeastern Railway: 1900 1901 N/A Texas Northern Railway: 1908 1908 Groveton, Lufkin and Northern Railway: Name changed to Groveton, Lufkin and Northern Railway prior to commencing operations Texas Pacific Railroad: MP: 1871 1872
Chicago and North Western, Union Pacific Railroad: Chicago, Illinois – Los Angeles, California [1948] 1906-1953 Louisiana Daylight: Texas and Pacific: New Orleans, Louisiana – Fort Worth, Texas [1950] 1949-1963 Louisiana Eagle: Texas and Pacific: New Orleans, Louisiana – Fort Worth, Texas [1950] 1949-1963 Louisiana Limited: Texas and Pacific