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The St. Louis-San Francisco Overpass is a pony and deck truss bridge built in 1937 located in Imboden, Lawrence County, Arkansas. It carries U.S. Route 62 and Arkansas Highway 115 over the Spring River and the former St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad ("Frisco", now BNSF ) for 1,049.9 feet (320.0 m). [ 2 ]
It was a predecessor of both the Missouri Pacific Railroad and St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean." [1] Due to a cholera epidemic in St. Louis in 1849 and other delays, groundbreaking did not occur until July ...
1902 (to St. Louis and Gulf) Gibson to Tallapoosa via Clarkton; branch to Malden built by the St. Louis and Gulf St. Francois Valley Railroad: 1898 1898 1902 (to St. Louis and Gulf) Campbell to Caligoa: Kennett and Osceola Railroad: 1896 1897 1902 (to St. Louis and Gulf) Kennett to Leachville (completed by the St. Louis and Gulf)
The St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans Railroad (“New Orleans”) ran from Hope, Arkansas to a point near Ardmore, Oklahoma, and encompassed about 219 miles of track including a branch line. It existed from 1895 (under a different name) to 1907, when its assets were taken over by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (“Frisco”).
From either of these towns, the traveler could continue north by land to the goldfields on the coast, via the El Camino Real, or over the Tejon Pass into the San Joaquin Valley by what would become the Stockton – Los Angeles Road or El Camino Viejo. Alternatively, they could take ships to San Francisco from San Diego or San Pedro.
"In 1852 there were in commission the clipper ships Surprise, Celestial, Sea Witch, Samuel Russell, Staghound, George E. Webster, and barks Race Horse and Memnon, all of which had made the passage from New York to San Francisco in from ninety to one hundred and twenty days, the average steamer time being one hundred and fifty." [7]
The St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway (reporting mark SLSF) was a subsidiary railway to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) operating 159 miles of railway line in Texas. The Frisco, including the subsidiary, formed a large X-shaped system across the states of Kansas , Missouri , Oklahoma , Texas , Arkansas , Mississippi and ...
Former St. Louis–San Francisco Railway stations (17 P) Pages in category "St. Louis–San Francisco Railway" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.