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Bartlett Western Railroad: Bartlett Western Railroad: 1911 1935 N/A Bastrop and Taylor Railway: MKT: 1886 1886 Taylor, Bastrop and Houston Railway: Beaumont and Great Northern Railroad: MKT: 1905 1923 Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway: Beaumont, Sour Lake and Port Arthur Traction Company: MP: 1903 1904 Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western ...
The company, first known as Trinity Steel, was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. W. Ray Wallace, an engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech, worked for Dallas's Austin Bridge Company in 1944 before joining the company in 1946 as its seventeenth employee. At the time Trinity Steel manufactured butane tanks in a Dallas County mule barn.
U.S. Steel: U.S. Steel 1962–1983 Served U.S. Steel Atlantic City Ore Mine Robinson: Wyoming: 6,940 ft (2,115 m) Union Pacific Railroad: Union Pacific Railroad: 1868–present Two sides of the Great Divide Basin; Robinson is the true Divide (per USGS) Hadsell: Wyoming: 6,930 ft (2,112 m) Rollins Pass: Colorado
The Ronald Kirk Bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. It connects Downtown Dallas and West Dallas, paralleling the 2012 Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge for vehicles, and the 1930 Texas and Pacific Railway Trinity River Bridge.
The Continental Steel Corporation was a United States steel producer from 1927 until 1986. The company was created on June 21, 1927, through the merger of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company (founded in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1901) with the Superior Sheet Steel Company of Canton, Ohio, and the Chapman Price Steel Company of Indianapolis. Among the ...
In stricter senses, the term wire rope refers to a diameter larger than 9.5 mm (3 ⁄ 8 in), with smaller gauges designated cable or cords. [1] Initially wrought iron wires were used, but today steel is the main material used for wire ropes. Historically, wire rope evolved from wrought iron chains, which had a record of mechanical failure.
The weight of the loaded descending cars is used to lift the ascending empties. [ 1 ] This form of cable railway can only be used to move loads downhill [ 1 ] and requires a wider space than a stationary engine-driven incline, but has the advantage of not requiring external power, and therefore costs less to operate.
M-Line Trolley Car #122 on Cole Avenue.. The West Village District is a walkable urban village in the Uptown area of Dallas, Texas.West Village is located at the northern edge of Uptown along McKinney Avenue and is bordered by Lemmon Avenue, Cole Avenue, Haskell Drive and Central Expressway.