Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Known as the Gulf Coast Lines, the system was created in three phases under three different railroads: The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico (Phase 1 - June 1903), the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western (Phase 2 - October 1903) and the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway (Phase 3 - September 1909).
Potosi Central Railroad [33] Ferrocarril Potosi y Rio Verde (FPyRv) Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway (see Mexico North Western Railway) Ferrocarril San Gregorio [34] Ferrocarril San Marcos a Huajapan de Leon [35] Ferrocarril San Rafael y Atlixco [34] Sinaloa and Durango Railroad [36] [37] [38] Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California (SBC ...
Missouri Electric Railroad [1] Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway [2] Oregon Interurban Railway [2] St. Francois County Railroad [2] St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway [2] Southwest Missouri Electric Railway [1] [2] Later Southwest Missouri Railroad: Union Depot, Bridge and Terminal Railroad [1] United Railways of St. Louis [1]
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.
Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad; Cincinnati, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad [3] Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) Columbia Tap Railway [4] Conrail (CR) Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW)
Pennsylvania Railroad: PRR PRR 1921 1968 Penn Central Transportation Company: Pierce City and Kansas Railroad: SLSF: 1875 1875 Missouri and Western Railway: Pike County Short Line Railroad: 1871 1872 St. Louis and Keokuk Railroad: Pilot Knob, Cape Girardeau and Belmont Railroad: SLSF: 1859 1869 Cape Girardeau and State Line Railway
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.
Map of first Mexican rail line between Veracruz and Mexico City Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico. Mexico's rail history began in 1837, with the granting of a concession for a railroad to be built between Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico City. However, no railroad was built under that concession.