The Railroad System of Texas
Author: Leigh B. Boske
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 31
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Author: Leigh B. Boske
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen S. Roop
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Texas. Railroad Commission
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 396
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: St. Clair Griffin Reed
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 848
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Railroad Commission of Texas
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David M. Bernstein
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-03-14
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439639981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texass economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.
Author: Railroad Commission of Texas
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 504
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Published: 1911
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Hemphill
Publisher: Maverick Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781893271395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Toyota scouted the nation in 2002 for a new plant location, a San Antonio site?s proximity to two rail lines clinched the decision. It was the city?s greatest economic breakthrough in recent years. Of even greater effect was arrival of the first railroad a century and a quarter earlier, launching the region?s first major growth.These are among the landmark events outlined in The Railroads of San Antonio and South Central Texas, the first general interest book to sort out the regional operations and impact of seven rail lines: the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio/Southern Pacific; International & Great Northern/Missouri Pacific; San Antonio & Aransas Pass; San Antonio & Gulf Shore/San Antonio & Gulf; Missouri?Kansas?Texas; Artesian Belt/San Antonio Southern; and the San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf. There is a closing chapter on Amtrak and the Union Pacific.Written by Hugh Hemphill, longtime director of the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio, this lavishly-illustrated book is vital to understanding the evolution of an important link in the nation?s transportation system.Included are five appendices that codify data, ranging from an index of towns and the railroads serving them to a listing of surviving depots to a summary of regional railroad museums and tourist railroads.