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The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental railroad between Marshall, Texas, and San Diego, California.
Adding to injury, coaches were cramped with little leg room. Travel by train offered a new style. Locomotives proved themselves a smooth, headache free ride with plenty of room to move around. Some passenger trains offered meals in the spacious dining car followed by a good night sleep in the private sleeping quarters. [44] [dead link ]
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company of Texas, Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad of Texas: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Extension Railway: MKT: 1880 1881 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company of Texas: MP: 1910 1921 Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company of Texas: Missouri Pacific Railroad: MP MP ...
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. (2005). 323 pp. the standard history; online review; Childs, William R. "Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s." Journal of Policy History 1990 2(4): 353–387. ISSN ...
The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway first began operation in the U.S. state of Texas in 1886. It was developed by Uriah Lott and businessmen of San Antonio as a direct route from the city to Aransas Bay on the Texas Gulf coast. [1] It was eventually absorbed in the 20th century by Southern Pacific.
Both locomotives on the Six Flags & Texas Railroad were originally built at the turn of the century for the Enterprise sugar cane plantation in Louisiana. [1] Engine #1, known as the Green Train (due to its color scheme) or the Mary Ann, was built in 1901 by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, which later became part of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
Other AT&SF properties, like the South Plains and Santa Fe between Lubbock, Texas and Crosbyton, Texas, were operated by the company, while properties like the North Texas and Santa Fe (incorporated in Texas in 1916; completed 85 miles from Shattuck, Oklahoma to Spearman, Texas in 1920) [2] [3] were leased to it. [1]