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- Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:45 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P "high bridge"
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Re: T&P "high bridge"
A November 1916 article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram relates that the iron bridge was built in 1881. It was second in height (in the Southwest) to the Pecos River High Bridge on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route. The T&P deemed its bridge too expensive to disassemble so they spent nearly a ...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:24 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P "high bridge"
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T&P "high bridge"
Don't recall if I brought this topic up before on this forum. I don't see it in the archived discussions. Anyway... There was a tall iron bridge in Stephens County, Texas called the Canyon Bridge (but with "Canyon" spelled the Spanish way with a tilde). The bridge must have dated from the ...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:03 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P wool train at Midland TX
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T&P wool train at Midland TX
I found this digitized old photograph in the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection at SMU's DeGolyer Library:
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/ ... OX=1&REC=8
Hope the link works!
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/ ... OX=1&REC=8
Hope the link works!
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:32 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Pics or information on T&P track in streets
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Re: Pics or information on T&P track in streets
I have seen photos of Pacific Ave. with tracks down the middle of it--both with and without trains. Try the downtown Dallas Public Library up on the 6th or 7th floor in their historical archives section. I bought a photo on eBay a few years ago showing a rather smoke-billowing train hauling down Pac...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:25 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P Passenger Trains 1936
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T&P Passenger Trains 1936
Here are the name T&P trains using the Union Terminal in Dallas in June, 1936:
Sunshine Special Nos. 1, 11, & 12
Fast Mail Nos. 3 & 4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner No. 7
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
Texas Triangle Nos. 17 & 18
Louisiana Limited No. 26
Sunshine Special Nos. 1, 11, & 12
Fast Mail Nos. 3 & 4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner No. 7
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
Texas Triangle Nos. 17 & 18
Louisiana Limited No. 26
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P Passenger Trains 1942
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T&P Passenger Trains 1942
Here are the name T&P trains using the Union Terminal in Dallas in February, 1932:
Texas Sunshine Special No.1
California Sunshine Special No.2 & 11
Fast Mail No.4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner No.7
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
Texas Sunshine Special No.1
California Sunshine Special No.2 & 11
Fast Mail No.4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner No.7
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:08 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: T&P Passenger Trains 1932
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T&P Passenger Trains 1932
Here are the name T&P trains using the Union Terminal in Dallas in August, 1932:
Sunshine Special Nos. 1 & 2
Fast Mail Nos. 3 & 4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
[At the same time, Nos. 67 & 68 on the Santa Fe were The Ranger.]
Sunshine Special Nos. 1 & 2
Fast Mail Nos. 3 & 4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
[At the same time, Nos. 67 & 68 on the Santa Fe were The Ranger.]
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:58 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Train "Names"
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Re: Train "Names"
The "Ranger" was a Santa Fe train. The "Texas Ranger" was a T&P train (No. 6 & 7) from at least 1933 to 1942---perhaps even earlier and later than those years.
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:41 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: First T-NM Ry train to Kermit
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First T-NM Ry train to Kermit
The 2009 edition of the Texas Pecos Trail tourism brochure has a couple of curious photos. One shows the first passenger train by the Kermit depot. The other shows the same train with (leased) T&P locomotive #420. This line of course was the Texas-New Mexico Railway. Here's the pdf version of th...
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:41 am
- Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
- Topic: Hotel El Capitan (Van Horn)
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Hotel El Capitan (Van Horn)
This classic hotel in Van Horn, TX by the noted El Paso architectural firm of Trost & Trost is open again as a hotel. It had been a bank in recent years. http://www.hotelelcapitan.net/pages/elcapitan01.html Sounds like a good place to overnight while railfanning the former T&P in West Texas....