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Houston and Texas Central Railroad: H&TC SP: 1889 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Houston and Texas Central Railway: SP: 1856 1889 Houston and Texas Central Railroad: Huntsville Branch Railway: MP: 1871 1873 Houston and Great Northern Railroad: Imperial Valley Railway: MP: 1907 1912 Sugar Land Railway: Indianola Railroad: SP: 1858 1871
Texas & Pacific depot in New Orleans, 1922. Under the influence of General Buell, the T&P was originally to be 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, but this was overturned when the state legislature passed a law requiring 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) gauge.
CityCentre is located on the former site of Town & Country Mall, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m 2) shopping center which competed with neighboring Memorial City Mall from 1983 to 2004. [6] Poor accessibility to the site due to the construction of the Sam Houston Tollway , as well as a local recession in the late 1980s, resulted in the ...
Initially, the Sunset Limited was an all-Pullman train, with sleeping cars and no coaches, running from New Orleans to San Francisco via Los Angeles. [5] From its beginning in 1894, until streamlining in 1950, all the train's cars had 6-wheel trucks and dark olive green paint, with black roofs and trucks. In the summer of 1926, it was scheduled ...
In some cases, older rail cars were repainted to match the distinctive Texas Special look. Soon it was not unusual for the Texas Special to run with 20 cars instead of the original 14. According to a historical pamphlet published by the MKT railroad in 1970, by 1950 the Texas Special was regarded as one of the most profitable streamliners in ...
Two Texas-type locomotives were built in the USSR. One, the class OR23 , built in 1949 by the locomotive works in Ulan Ude , had cylinders that were placed above the center driving axle. Unlike nearly all steam locomotives, the pistons had rods on both ends, which transferred power to the wheels.
During the 1920s, the Texas and Pacific Railway (T&P) was undergoing a restructuring process, under the guidance of the company's president, John L. Lancaster. [7] Lancaster sought for the T&P to acquire faster and more powerful locomotives than their G-1 Class 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" types, to compete with intercity truck services and to assist the ...
Marshall station is a railroad station in Marshall, Texas. It is served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system, which operates the Texas Eagle through Marshall each day, with service north to Chicago and west-southwest to Dallas, San Antonio and Los Angeles. The station also houses the Texas and Pacific Railway Depot & Museum.