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The coming of the railroad and irrigation made the Valley into a major agricultural center. In Hidalgo County, land that had been selling for twenty-five cents an acre in 1903, the year before the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway arrived, was selling for fifty dollars an acre in 1906 and for as much as $300 an acre by 1910.
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Texas Historical Commission 2006 Marker - The Lynchburg Town Ferry. The service would operate 24 hours per day, 365 days a year under the operation of Harris County through June 2004 when hours were reduced to their current times. [3] Replacement vessels have been under consideration by the county since late 2004, but have yet to be ordered. [3]
The St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway (reporting mark SLSF) was a subsidiary railway to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) operating 159 miles of railway line in Texas. The Frisco, including the subsidiary, formed a large X-shaped system across the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas (reporting mark SSW), operated the lines of its parent company, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway within the state of Texas. The St. Louis Southwestern, known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply the Cotton Belt, was organized on January 12, 1891, although it had its origins in a rail line founded in 1871 in Tyler, Texas that ...
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway: SSW: 1886 1891 St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas, Tyler Southeastern Railway: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway: SB&M, SBM MP: 1903 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: SLSF SLSF: 1964 1980 Burlington Northern Inc. St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway ...
The backers of the Tyler Tap were able to interest St. Louis capitalist James W. Paramore—president of the St. Louis Cotton Compress Company—and his associates in the railroad, because they believed the line might result in lower shipping rates for cotton shipments from Texas to their compressors in St. Louis.
Texas and St. Louis Railway: SSW: 1881 1886 St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway: Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad: NKP: 1923 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis: 1878 1988 City of St. Louis (for MetroLink) Owned by Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: Union Belt Line: 1882 1882 Kansas City Belt ...