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  2. List of Texas railroads - Wikipedia

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    Texas Mexican Northern Railway: NDM: 1882 1906 Texas Mexican Railway: Texas Midland Railroad: SP: 1892 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Texas – New Mexico Railway: TNM MP: 1927 1978 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Texas and New Orleans Railroad: T&NO, TNO SP: 1859 1961 Southern Pacific Company: Texas and Northeastern Railway: 1900 1901 N/A ...

  3. Northern Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    Map of NPR Land Grant, c1890. The 38th United States Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway Company on July 2, 1864, with the goals of connecting the Great Lakes with Puget Sound on the northwestern coast of the United States on the Pacific Ocean, opening vast new lands for farming, ranching, lumbering and mining, and linking the federal territory of Washington and state of Oregon to ...

  4. BNSF Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) was created in 1970 through the consolidation of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Great Northern Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway. It absorbed the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) in 1980.

  5. Texas and Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred ...

  6. Railroad land grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western states, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km2) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe for construction.

  7. Fort Worth and Denver Railway - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Great Northern Railway, and the Northern Pacific Railroad merged themselves into a single railroad, the Burlington Northern Railroad, but their subsidiaries in Colorado and Texas continued to have a separate legal existence until the Burlington Northern acquired the Fort Worth and Denver ...