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The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Missouri Pacific later acquired or gained a controlling interest in other lines in Texas, including the Gulf Coast Lines, International-Great Northern Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railway.
Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis, Kansas and Arizona Railway: MP: 1879 1880 Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis and Kansas City Railway: MKT: 1895 1897 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad: RI: 1884 1905 Kansas City Rock Island Railway: St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway: WAB: 1872 1879
Missouri Pacific Railway: Pacific Railway in Kansas: MP: 1887 1887 Pacific Railway in Nebraska: Pacific Railway in Nebraska: MP: 1887 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway: Parsons and Pacific Railroad: MKT: 1885 1887 Kansas City and Pacific Railroad: Pawnee Valley and Denver Railroad: ATSF: 1885 1886 Chicago, Kansas and Western Railroad: Pittsburg and ...
They were forced out through Jay Gould's railroad monopoly. [1] [2] In 1883 the railway was acquired by Jay Gould, becoming part of a 9,547-mile (15,364 km) system. On May 12, 1917, the company was officially merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which in turn was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad between 1982 and 1997.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was an American railroad that owned or operated two individual segments of track. One connected St. Louis, Missouri , with Tulsa, Oklahoma , and the other connected Albuquerque, New Mexico , with Needles in Southern California .
Missouri Pacific gained majority ownership of the Texas and Pacific Railway's stock in 1928, but allowed it to continue operation as a separate entity until they were eventually merged on October 15, 1976. On January 8, 1980, the Missouri Pacific Railroad was purchased by the Union Pacific Railroad. Because of lawsuits filed by competing ...
To further expand the Spider Web Rail Network in the Rio Grande Valley, the Missouri Pacific acquired the Rio Grande City Railway under the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad in 1926. The final acquisition for the Spider Web Rail Network came in 1941 when the former narrow gauged Port Isabel & Rio Grande Valley railway was acquired by the St ...
The Missouri Pacific was incorporated March 5, 1917, under the general laws of Missouri, for the purpose of acquiring and operating certain lines of railroad formerly owned and operated by or as the property of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company (of 1909) and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, and for the acquisition ...