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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 ...
Doodlebug Country: The Rail Motorcar on the Class 1 Railroads of the United States. Interurban Press. ISBN 978-0-916374-50-1. Keilty, Edmund (December 1988). The Short Line Doodlebug: Galloping Geese and Other Rail Critters. Interurban Press. ISBN 978-0-916374-77-8. John B. McCall (December 1977). The Doodlebugs. Kachina Press. ISBN 978-0 ...
Houston and Texas Central Railroad – 1 car [16] Illinois Central Railroad – 1 car [16] Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad – 1 x 55-ft car, #5, built 1916) [23] Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad 1 car as a trial, returned to manufacturer [24] Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad – 2 cars; [16] [17] to Arizona Eastern; to Southern Pacific
Texas Midland Railroad (TM) was incorporated in Texas on December 1, 1892, by Hetty Green. The original standard gauge 52 mile line was built between Garrett and Midland Junction (also called Roberts) by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad in 1882. This original line was known as the Northeast Extension of the Houston and Texas Central.
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
Bathrooms and showers are located on both levels. At one end of the car is a top level end-door; at the other end is a staircase and end door on the lower level. [66] On some trains, Amtrak makes the roomettes closest to the upper level end door available for sale to passengers. [96] The transition sleepers weigh 156,085 pounds (70,799 kg). [56]
Transporting the animals to market from ranches in Texas required herds to be driven up to 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to railheads in Kansas City, Missouri or later to more westerly locations, such as Abilene, Kansas (1867, Kansas Pacific Railway) and Dodge City, Kansas (1872, Santa Fe Railroad), where they were loaded into specialized stock cars ...
Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad: SLSF: 1903 1907 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: OKKT MKT: 1980 1989 Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Oklahoma, Red River and Texas Railway: 1910 1912 N/A Operated Blossom to Deport, 11 miles Orange and Northwestern Railroad: MP: 1901 1956 Missouri Pacific ...