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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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The Southwestern of Texas acquired its first property through a joint reorganization committee of the bondholders, which had acquired all the rights, property, and franchises of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas in Texas, and of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas of 1887, after foreclosure sale to Louis Fitzgerald on January 9 and February 5, 1891.
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 same interests controlled both the company and the St. Louis & Texas Railway Company and the properties were operated as one system. The company owned and operated a standard-gauge railroad of about 582 miles, which extended from Bird's Point, Mo., to the Arkansas-Texas State line at Texarkana, with the following branches: