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  2. Blacklands Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Blacklands Railroad (BLR) The St. Louis, Arkansas, & Texas Railroad was built through Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1887 on its way to Commerce and Sherman. [3] The next year the line was completed to Fort Worth. In 1891, the bankrupt railroad was sold to Jay Gould Interests and renamed the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, also known as the Cotton ...

  3. Texas State Railroad - Wikipedia

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    texasstaterailroad.net. The Texas State Railroad, also referred to as the Lone Star and Eastern Railroad, is a historic 25 mi (40 km) heritage railroad between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Built by inmates, it was founded in 1883 by the state of Texas to haul raw materials for a smelter at the prison at Rusk. Regular service on the line was ended ...

  4. Herbert Lyle Mayfield - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Lyle Mayfield, known generally as Lyle, (March 4, 1929 – March 31, 2012) was an American writer, poet, printer, inventor of musical instruments, and folk musician and composer from Greenville, Illinois. He spent most of his adult life working in the printing trade as a profession, but spent most of his spare time designing and ...

  5. Texas and St. Louis Railway - Wikipedia

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    Length. 725 miles (1,167 km) Originally incorporated as the Tyler Tap Railroad in 1871, the Texas and St. Louis Railway (“T&SL”) constructed a three-foot gauge railroad from Gatesville, Texas through Arkansas to Bird's Point, Missouri starting in 1875 and completing by 1883. One of the two longest narrow-gauge lines in the country, the ...

  6. Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad - Wikipedia

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    4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (reporting mark MKT) was a Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1865 under the name Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in Texas, Oklahoma ...

  7. Opinion: Will Greenville County voters fund road improvements ...

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    d. Greenville County in 2024 received a 5.92% apportionment, which was the highest apportionment for any county in the state: plus a Donor Bonus, and one-time funding. Total received: $6,847,264 ...

  8. List of American railroad accidents - Wikipedia

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    Illinois's deadliest rail disaster to date widely encouraged the use of newer steel coaches over conventional wooden ones [29] 1887 Chicago and Atlantic Railway Wreck, Kouts, Indiana; 10 killed [30] 1888 Wreck at the Fat Nancy, Orange County, Virginia; nine killed plus 26 injured.

  9. List of Texas railroads - Wikipedia

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    Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Fort Worth and Denver Railway, Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, St. Louis – San Francisco Railway, St. Louis Southwestern Railway, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Texas and Pacific Railway (one-eighth interest each in trackage) Uvalde and Northern ...