• 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...
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  • California.) The Southern Pacific of Texas was bought by the newly formed Texas and Pacific Railway on March 21, 1872. Although the Texas Western Railroad Company...
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    by the Texas and Pacific Railway (T&P). No. 610 and its class were based on Lima Locomotive Works' prototype "Super Power" 2-8-4 design, and the T&P...
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    under the name Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. In 1988...
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    and Southern Railway (SLIMS), Texas and Pacific Railway (TP), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway...
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    Worth and Denver City Railway 410 / Texas and Pacific Railway 400 is a class "E-4A1" 2-8-2 "Mikado" that was originally operated by the Fort Worth and Denver...
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    Trail". Texas Historical Marker. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2010. "Texas and Pacific Railway". Texas and Pacific Railway...
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    Texas and Pacific Station, commonly known as T&P Station, is a terminal Trinity Railway Express and TEXRail commuter railroad station is located at 1600...
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    nearby at "Tecific" junction. Businesses and homes were built along the rail lines. Texas and Pacific Railway passenger service was discontinued in 1969...
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    Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved May 14, 2010. Texas State Historical Association "Texas and Pacific Railway". Texas and Pacific Railway. Retrieved...
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    Rival railway companies began competing for rights of way. The Texas and Pacific Railway and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway eventually...
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    Paso, Texas 3709 (EMD GP9), being restored to operation at Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo, California 3769 (EMD GP9), On display and used as...
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  • state of Texas. BNSF Railway (BNSF) Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Union Pacific Railroad (UP) There are no Class II Railroads in Texas. Alamo Gulf...
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    century, Marshall developed as a large railroad center of the Texas and Pacific Railway. Following World War II, activists in the city's substantial African-American...
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    Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved April 29, 2010. Texas State Historical Association "Texas and Pacific Railway Stations". Texas and Pacific Railway. Retrieved...
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  • the Texas and Pacific Railway bankruptcy, as a means to dispose of the T&P's vast land holdings. TPL received over 3,500,000 acres (14,000 km2), and certain...
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    on climate maps. Originally named Vista for an official of the Texas and Pacific Railway which passed through the town, Roscoe took its present name with...
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    settlers established Keller and the town became a stop on the Texas and Pacific Railway. The settlers settled around the wooded region in Keller because...
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    gauge line that ran south from Denver, across New Mexico, and into Texas. The Union Pacific Railway would later declare bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893...
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    simply as the Eagle. Amtrak's Texas Eagle is the direct successor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Texas and Pacific Railway train of the same name, which...
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  • The Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) was an 872-mile (1403-km) railway system chartered in Texas in 1848, with construction beginning in 1856....
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    being halfway (midway) between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway. Midland County is included in the Midland, TX Metropolitan Statistical...
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  • New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (abbreviated: CNO&TP; (reporting mark CNTP)) is a railroad that leases the Cincinnati Southern Railway from Cincinnati...
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    instead of eight was an obvious development and the first to be delivered were to the Texas and Pacific Railway, after which the type was subsequently named...
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    2022. Texas and Pacific Railway from the Handbook of Texas Online Missouri Pacific System from the Handbook of Texas Online Arlington, Texas at Wikipedia's...
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    The Texas Mexican Railway (reporting mark TM) was a short line railroad in the U.S. state of Texas operating between Corpus Christi and the Texas Mexican...
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    Matthew Baird, the owner and director of the Texas and Pacific Railway. The railway depot is now operated as the visitor center and a transportation museum...
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  • List of Class I railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    Railway Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Cincinnati Northern Railroad Cleveland, Akron and Cincinnati Railway Cleveland, Akron and Columbus...
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    Railroad and Cheyenne and Northern Railway were brought together to form the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway in 1890. When Union Pacific went bankrupt...
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    Missouri Pacific Railroad in southwestern Palo Pinto County, was one of several towns developed about 1880 when the Texas and Pacific Railway began service...
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