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A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862 (University Press of Kansas; 2010) 325 pages; Documents the enthusiasm that accompanied the advent of the railroad system; Nice, David C. Amtrak: The History and Politics of a National Railroad (1998) online edition Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
"The World's Great Railroad Enterprises: Big Schemes on Every Continent". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XIII: 8423– 8436 Describes status of railways worldwide, includes numerous photos as well as c. 1906 continent diagrams of railways; History of Railroad Unions in the U.S.
March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred ...
"A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad --the "Katy"--was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north Racial violence continued by whites against blacks as they enforced white supremacy . Despite this, freedmen pursued education, organized new churches and fraternal organizations, and entered politics, winning local offices.
Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad: SLSF: 1903 1907 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 ...
[3] [5] The reenergized T&SL built 107 miles of track between Big Sandy and Texarkana by July 12, 1880, [5] completed another 37 miles between Tyler and Athens by the end of that year, and reached Waco on September 11, 1881. [5] The following year the company laid even more track, running an additional 46 miles west from Waco to Gatesville.
From September 11 the same year, the road was operating from Abilene to Ballinger, Texas, a total of 54.75 miles (88.11 km), where a connection to a branch line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was established. Finally, on October 1, 1910, a railroad from Anson, Texas to Hamlin, Texas (17.41 miles (28.02